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In June, hedge fund billionaire Paul Singer donated $500,000 to a Super PAC supporting Faso. Robert Mercer, another wealthy hedge fund manager, has given half a million dollars to Faso as well. The influx of corporate cash prompted Teachout—who says her average donation is $19, and has benefited from Sanders's massive database of supporters—to challenge Mercer and Singer to a debate (they never responded, she said). "Sometimes I think this is a race against Paul Singer and Robert Mercer, and the other shadowy donors we don't know," she told me."Sometimes I think this is a race against Paul Singer and Robert Mercer, and the other shadowy donors we don't know."
–Zephyr Teachout
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