article_snippet.sent: Doug Hughes putting address labels on half of the 535 letters to Congress Doug Hughes tried delivering earlier this month .
article_snippet.sent: Doug Hughes hoped to raise awareness about the influence of big money in politics by deliberately breaking the law to deliver 535 letters, one for each member of Congress.
article_snippet.sent: Instead, the overwhelming focus of news coverage has been about the gaps Doug Hughes exposed in national security.
article_snippet.sent: Doug Hughes told The Associated Press: 'The Associated Press've got bigger problems in this country than worrying about whether the security around DC is ironclad. '
article_snippet.sent: The Associated Press need to be worried about the piles of money that are going into Congress. '
article_snippet.sent: The message was two pages long to Congress that two pages are going to have to face the issue, OK, of campaign-finance reform and honesty and government so that two pages work for the people.
highlights_snippet.sent: Doug Hughes spent two years planning stunt to protest campaign-finance laws .
  