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...year ago, Dean, 54, predicted he would come in "dead last in fund raising." Now he's ahead, and he has done it the hard way: $20, $50, $125 at a time. Half of it, he claims, came from people who had never before given to a politician. Small individual contributions have leverage because only the first $250 gets federal matching funds. And donors who haven't hit their $2,000 legal limit can be tapped again. So there's more where that came from...
...look at those days because it is possible to see both the perils and the potential that lie ahead (see box). He repeatedly took risks--from publicly challenging his donors to ante up more money to putting up early ads in Iowa--and showed that what might kill another politician in the big leagues seems only to make him stronger. Even his rather mealy-mouthed performance with Tim Russert on Meet the Press seemed to galvanize his supporters. They bombarded his website with attacks on Russert--and $93,000 in contributions that same...
...public's right to recall a defective politician in California, as well as the right to pass legislation by ballot vote, was a populist reform inserted into the state constitution 100 years ago. These changes assumed a responsible electorate and a powerful, corrupt political class. The first assumption was overly romantic and the second overly cynical. Today California suffers from an excess of democracy and a dearth of citizenship. In the past 25 years-starting with the passage of Proposition 13 in 1978, which limited the increase in property taxes to 1% per year-California has passed a slew...
...YOUR SUCCESS AS A BUSINESSMAN INFLUENCED THE KIND OF POLITICIAN...
Private television in Italy, which I founded, became an element of liberty, in breaking the monopoly of state TV. The link between my experience as an entrepreneur and that of a politician is all in one word: freedom...