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'Nonpartisan' groups help Hillary's bid
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 Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2007 8:00 am Post subject: 'Nonpartisan' groups help Hillary's bid |
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 'Nonpartisan' groups help Hillary's bid
By Donald LambroAn extensive political network of advocacy think tanks and bloggers that Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and her campaign donors helped create and bankroll is playing a strategic role in her bid for the White House.
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By Donald LambroAn extensive political network of advocacy think tanks and bloggers that Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and her campaign donors helped create and bankroll is playing a strategic role in her bid for the White House.Two of these Clinton-formed groups — the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank run by John Podesta, one-time chief of staff in the Clinton White House, and Media Matters, a Web site known for its fierce attacks on the New York senator's conservative critics — are financed with tax-deductible contributions under the tax code because they say their mission is educational.But their work has helped the Democrats, including Mrs. Clinton, promote their agenda and mount a more aggressive, sustained offensive against political opponents, raising questions about the organizations' claims of being nonpartisan."There is no question that these [tax exempt] 501(c)(3) groups engage in activities that a lot of people would see as political and, to a certain extent, they are allowed to do that," said Massie Ritsch, communications director of the Center for Responsive Politics, a watchdog group that tracks campaign-financing abuses.Mrs. Clinton claims credit for helping create these groups when she was preparing to run for president by encouraging her campaign contributors to pour tens of millions of dollars into their activities.
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