Inaugural Committee Disappoints With Decision to Take Corporate Cash

The Obama Inaugural Committee’s decision to accept unlimited corporate and individual donations fits an unfortunate and dangerous pattern, Common Cause said Saturday.

“Through two campaigns, President Obama has said all the right things about the need to get big money out of our politics – and then done a lot of the wrong things,” said Common Cause President Bob Edgar. "This is another example of that. Why would the President and the inaugural committee decide to take as much money as millionaires and corporations care to give, inviting the corrupting influence that inevitably goes with it?

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