Check-cashing companies have poured almost $120,000 into the coffers of Florida political candidates and parties since Harry Hooper's fateful 1995 decision. Leading the parade was Advance America, the Spartanburg, S.C., payday lender, which gave $89,250.
Needless to say, the politicians and political parties taking the industry money don't have to pay it back — at least in U.S. currency.
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