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A Dark Money Group Is Secretly Funding High-Profile Democratic Influencers

Executive Director, Don Heider, quoted by WIRED.

Democrats are using a liberal dark money group to fund Democratic influencers and keep up with the changing media landscape. 

Ethics Center Executive Director Don Heider says that the outlined restrictions violate ethical norms. “If the contract for getting money from a particular interest group says you can’t disclose it, then it’s pretty simple, you can’t take the money,” he says. “We’re living in an era where a lot of powerful people have basically taken the rule book and thrown it out the window.”

 

Executive Director, Don Heider, quoted by WIRED.

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