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 <title>Countering Ctr for Competitive Politics&#039; Fact Distortion</title>
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 <description>Our pleasure in reading &lt;em&gt;USA Today&lt;/em&gt;’s editors’ piece on &lt;a href=&quot;http://blogs.usatoday.com/oped/2007/12/our-view-on-ele.html&quot;&gt;“Five Reasons for Public Financing,”&lt;/a&gt;  quickly turned to alarm &lt;span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;reading the accuracy-challenged &lt;a href=&quot;http://blogs.usatoday.com/oped/2007/12/opposing-view-n.html&quot;&gt;“opposing view” &lt;/a&gt;by the Center for Competitive Politics&amp;#39; Bradley A. Smith. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;We’ve sent our official letter to the editor, but that limited us to 250 words, which was not satisfying in the least. So herewith are our corrections of Smith’s exercise in fact distortion and twisted context.&lt;br class=&quot;clear&quot; /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.publicampaign.org/ccp_rebuttal&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <category domain="http://www.publicampaign.org/taxonomy/term/269">Arizona</category>
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 <pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2007 22:52:17 +0000</pubDate>
 <dc:creator>Nancy Watzman</dc:creator>
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