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The new soft money

National political parties may be banned from raising “soft money” under a new campaign finance law, but partisan gubernatorial associations have gone on accepting unlimited contributions from many of the same corporate and labor union donors for use in statewide elections. The Republican Governors Association and the Democratic Governors’ Association are both organized as 527 […]

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