More than 100 people rallied inside the Capitol rotunda on Monday, demanding a ban on gifts and outside employment for state lawmakers, protesting what they called legislators’ unchecked private interests.

Activists with March on Harrisburg delivered speeches criticizing Pennsylvania’s lax campaign finance laws, with one speaker noting that 35 fundraisers are scheduled in Harrisburg this week, before marching through the building.

Rabbi Michael Pollock, executive director of March on Harrisburg, said it was tiring to watch lawmakers play the “blame” game.

“Our state legislature is broken for the people of Pennsylvania,” Pollock said in his speech, “and fixed on behalf of the ultra-rich billionaires.”

After the speeches, protestors held banners spanning up to four people and loudly chan

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