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Memo Suggests Link between Donations and Laws

By AAN Staff
march 12, 2004  02:56 pm
Memo Suggests Link between Donations and Laws
Working from the notes of a fundraiser for Texans for a Republican Majority, Jake Bernstein and Dave Mann explore possible connections between campaign contributions and laws passed by the Texas Legislature. They scrutinize bills that allow line-of-credit home equity lending and increases in customers' gas bills. "The big lie of politics is that money doesn't influence legislation," they write in The Texas Observer, contending the matter was only made worse when legislative districts were redrawn along partisan lines.
View full article at The Texas Observer
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