TITLE

Campaign reformers try to seize the moment

AUTHOR(S)
Feldmann, Linda
PUB. DATE
March 1997
SOURCE
Christian Science Monitor;3/14/97, Vol. 89 Issue 75, p3
SOURCE TYPE
Newspaper
DOC. TYPE
Article
ABSTRACT
Provides information on the controversy over the campaign finance system in the United States. Allegations of the misuse of monies collected; Reference made to the Watergate scandal; Division in the Republican Party over how to reform campaign financing; How the Maine system would effect legislation to reform campaign financing.
ACCESSION #
9703240137

Tags: CAMPAIGN funds -- Moral & ethical aspects

 

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