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Verbatim: ‘We’re So Lawyered Up I Feel Like A Clinton,’ Says Mike Murphy

In June, Mike Murphy, the GOP consultant who has guided the campaigns of John McCain, Mitt Romney, and Arnold Schwarzenegger, took over Jeb Bush's super-PAC, Right to Rise USA. Partly, that's meant the witty political commentator has gone silent.
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“We’re so lawyered up I feel like a Clinton.”

— Mike Murphy, head of Right To Rise, Jeb Bush’s super-PAC

In June, Mike Murphy, the GOP consultant who has guided the campaigns of John McCain, Mitt Romney, and Arnold Schwarzenegger, took over Jeb Bush’s super-PAC, Right to Rise USA. Partly, that’s meant the witty political commentator has gone silent. But in a new interview with Bloomberg Politics, he talks about many aspects of the 2016 election cycle, including the need to be “lawyered up” as a super-PAC to make sure there are no violations of FEC rules.

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