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Who funds Duggan?

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It can be said that if you want to know what a politician's true values and priorities really are, look at who donated to his campaign fund. Let's take a closer look at Duggan's campaign chest. He is perhaps the only city mayor in the nation to have a Super-PAC (something usually reserved for national-level candidates). Granted, thanks to the controversial “Citizens United” U.S. Supreme Court decision that allowed for the creation of Super PACs in 2010, it is not possible to see all of Duggan's Super PAC donors, or how much they gave. But perhaps it is enough for us to know that he does not want us to know . Because of that ruling, a politician's Super PAC may receive unlimited donations from corporations, unions, nonprofits and individuals, without having to make their records public. Nonetheless, some of Duggan's campaign contributions are public, and **spoiler alert** they are mostly from people and corporations from outside of Detroit, with mostly conservati...