Jessica Gould, WNYC reporter, Real Deal reporter Will Parker, and Cezary Podkul, Wall Street Journal reporter and former reporter at ProPublica, talk about why real estate developers donate to political campaigns both in the city and in Upstate New York - what they're hoping to get out of it, and what they do get out of it.

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