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Article: Where are the good guys when we need them? While the public interest groups fiddle, campaign finance reform burns. (includes related article on campaign finance reform bills)(Cover Story)
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- The Washington Monthly
- Article date:
- September 1, 1997
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Members of the Clinton administration boast that their boss has done more to promote the cause of campaign finance reform than president in recent history. Perhaps. But staffers who point to Clinton's use of the bully pulpit as evidence of his reform commitment mistake his real contribution: the fantastic fund-raising scandal now on display in room 216 of the Hart Senate Office Building. Here, beneath the watchful gazes of Sen. Fred Thompson and Co., witnesses relate hair-raising tales of convoluted financial shell-games rigged to funnel vast sums of special interest money into the coffers of our major political parties -- and that's just the legal stuff.
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