Billionaire: Buying Elections is Charity
By David Freelander
The Daily Beast
April 30, 2015
Five years ago, 40 of the country’s richest billionaires came together and publicly proclaimed that they would give at least half of their fortunes to charity before they died, called “the Giving Pledge”. Aaron Dorfman, executive director of the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy, on the Giving Pledge, said the pledge was meant to include direct service, research, universities, and advocacy, and that PACs and political spending “don’t strike me as something commensurate with the pledge.”
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