Campaign Reforms May Hurt Nonprofit Groups

Leslie Lenkowsky

Public-interest groups and their foundation supporters have been among the chief forces pushing for limits on contributions to election campaigns as a way to reduce the influence of special-interest money in politics. But their efforts could come back to haunt them by limiting the participation of nonprofit groups in electoral campaigns and narrowing the range of views expressed during elections.

The prospect of the federal government's imposing limits on

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