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Jul 02, 2009

WaPo Cash-for-Access Kerfuffle

In case you haven’t seen it yet, make sure to read Mike Allen’s pretty amazing story over at Politico, which exposes a new business plan being put together by The Washington Post that would offer lobbyists and association executives off-the-record access to high ranking government officials at “Post Salon” dinner events in exchange for huge cash payments, starting at $25,000 a pop. The really astonishing part of the story is already being walked back (sort…

 
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