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"What I don't quite understand is why anonymous giving to politically-minded organizations only becomes a threat to democracy…when it's done by free market organizations"

Matt Welch | 9.8.2011 1:26 PM

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Radley Balko notes some double standards over at Mother Jones (and elsewhere).

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Matt Welch is an editor at large at Reason.

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