September 24, 2004

Getting the Ear of the Powerful in Government

To the Editor:

Your recent exposé on how campaign contributions allegedly influence higher-education policy contained a factual error as well as a misguided view of how politics works ("Selling Out Higher-Education Policy?," The Chronicle, July 30).

The reporter, Stephen Burd, defines "soft money" as "unlimited donations that could be made to national parties and individual candidates as long as the funds were not to be used for direct campaign expenses." In fact,

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