Subject: The Dash for Cash
From: rick.hasen@lls.edu
Date: 4/27/2003, 8:42 PM
To: election-law@majordomo.lls.edu

From: Rick Hasen



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The Dash for Cash 
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Public financing is the only way to end the unfair tilt of the 'wealth primary'

By Nick Nyhart and Joan Claybrook
Nick Nyhart is executive director of Public Campaign. Joan Claybrook is president of Public Citizen.

April 27 2003

WASHINGTON — The Democratic convention won't be held for more than a year, but the party's nominee for the 2004 presidential race is being selected right now, in a handful of living rooms and salons in Georgetown, the Upper East Side of Manhattan and Hollywood. That's where the "wealth primary" — the quadrennial dance between fund-raisers and fat cats — is taking place, a competition that determines who will be anointed the party's front-runner and what issues will make it onto the table. 

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http://www.latimes.com/la-op-nyhart27apr27,0,7090106.story 

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