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Article: Wertheimer Finally Gets A Revel for The Cause; Campaign Finance Bill Follows Decades of Effort
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- The Washington Post
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- March 22, 2002
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Fred Wertheimer has long been a familiar sight on Capitol Hill, a
rumpled white-haired figure with a cell phone pasted to one ear and a
single, overriding mission: to cut off the unrestricted "soft money"
donations to political parties by corporations, labor unions and rich
people.
On Wednesday, Congress finally passed -- and President Bush said
he would sign -- a bill to do just that. And Wertheimer is making
plans for a long-deferred vacation to France.
"I've been telling my wife for years that we'll go on vacation as
soon as the bill is finished," Wertheimer said yesterday from the
downtown office of Democracy 21, the nonprofit advocacy group he
founded five years ago after leaving the ...