Nick Nyhart
Nick Nyhart
Nick Nyhart is the president and CEO of Public Campaign, a nonprofit organization in the U.S. that lobbies for publicly funded elections...
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This past week's good news for reformers is likely to continue in the weeks and months to come. Record campaign fundraising (see Schwarzenegger's bid to raise $120 million in the California gubernatorial race) and the continued stench of national scandal will lift reform efforts in Washington DC and across the country this year and beyond.
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The standard for rejecting money is that the donor has risen to enough prominence that holding on to the money will hurt you at the polls. It's a very pragmatic, political standard.