I think the issue of developers' influence is going to explode in the elections in Montgomery County next year, and our campaign finance laws have clearly failed to restrain their influence.

They're having to scramble more to keep this influence peddling under the radar, ... Is that progress?

I think there's now a fig leaf over some of the corruption, ... Where there was naked influence peddling before, it's a little more hidden now.

I think she exerts an enormous influence.

Working as a cartel, these institutions could influence economies for good or for naught, potentially in ways that may not be guided by any standard of national or international interest.

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