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USA Today
October 19th, 2000
(pdf scan)What one donor got for $6.6M: Nothing
Civic duty, not favors or self- interest, motivates some big political contributors
The soft touch
Law and regulatory changes in the late 1970s opened wide loopholes in the ban on political contributions from corporations and unions, and created a way around the limits on individual contributions that were established in the 1974 Federal Campaign Act. Since then, political parties' soft-money fundraising and spending has grown steadily.
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'I neither want power nor need anybody ... to make life better for me'