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Subjects > News > San Francisco Chronicle April 25 2004
- MoveOn?Create's "grassroots" claims are scandalized by revelation of major support by big donors such as George Soros
- Despite it's claim to represent ordinary people, majority of funding comes from sources other than ordinary
- left-leaning non-profits spending tens of millions of dollars on left-leaning television advertising
- such organizations come as close as they can to directly calling for the defeat of President Bush, an activity barred by law
- Legal, regulatory, and legislative challenges try to rein in these groups
- Groups use "issue" ads, which are hard to distinguish from prohibted direct advertisements for candidates.
- Historical soft-money contributors now among the top 10 donors to non-profit political groups
- Harold Ickes, former deputy chief of staff in the Clinton White House, runs the Media Fund, which is recipient of money from the new organizations such as Joint Victory Campaign 2004
- Tracey Schmitt, Bush-Cheney campaign spokesman, says "John Kerry has become the largest beneficiary of illegal soft money from wealthy special interests since the campiagn reforms of the Watergate era"
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