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By Warren Rojas
Posted June 15, 2012 at 1:15pm

If the past decade has taught us anything, it’s that our political system is all about the cash money.

That’s what activist John Wellington Ennis divined during the course of directing his first film, the Bush-vs.-Gore-centric “Free for All,” and now during his dissection of Citizens United v. FEC in the unfinished flick, “Pay 2 Play.”

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