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March 17, 2005
Campaign Finance Fraud
Ryan Sager has an article in the New York Post today that accuses campaign finance reform supporters of a major fraud and says he has a video taped confession that proves it.
Charged with promoting campaign-finance reform when he joined Pew in the mid-1990s, Treglia came up with a three-pronged strategy: 1) pursue an expansive agenda through incremental reforms, 2) pay for a handful of "experts" all over the country with foundation money and 3) create fake business, minority and religious groups to pound the table for reform."The target audience for all this activity was 535 people in Washington," Treglia says — 100 in the Senate, 435 in the House. "The idea was to create an impression that a mass movement was afoot — that everywhere they looked, in academic institutions, in the business community, in religious groups, in ethnic groups, everywhere, people were talking about reform."
The saddest thing is that the tape is a year old and there were reporters in the audience that heard these comments, but never reported them.
Posted by Pete at March 17, 2005 04:27 PM
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