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Article: Elections, public interest and money.(LETTERS)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- March 30, 2005
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Byline: THE WASHINGTON TIMES
The bipartisan bill that bears the names of Sens. John McCain and Russell Feingold, if not perfect, goes a long way toward reaching one of Carnegie Corp. of New York's goals of enriching the democratic process and making sure that the public interest, not money, has the last word in our electoral system.
President Bush agreed to sign the legislation into law. In the 1990s, the board of trustees of Carnegie Corp. focused on the need to emphasize people, not money, in the election process, and one of their strategies called for campaign finance reform at the state and local levels.
For 14 years, we've worked for that ...