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Campaign Finance and Election Integrity


Capital Research Center president Scott Walter discusses campaign finance and election integrity with Josh Findlay, director of the Election Protection Project at the Texas Public Policy Foundation. Walter discusses traditional hard dollar donations and soft dollar donations, including “dark money.” Walter explains:

For at least two decades the nonprofit tail has wagged the Democratic Party dog. It is enormously more important who is the head of Arabella Advisers or the head of the Soros Open Society Foundations or the Ford Foundation than it is whoever happens to be chairing the DNC this afternoon.

Scott Walter

Scott Walter is president of Capital Research Center. He served in the George W. Bush Administration as Special Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy and was vice president at…
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