31. The latest fracas surrounds the report last month that some PBS stations have sold their donor lists to the Democratic Party. 32. The Red Cross fired back in federal Court, accusing former employees of stealing confidential donor lists and using them to make contact with donors. 33. The regents fear that if donor lists are made public, people will be disinclined to donate. 34. The selling of donor lists by some PBS affiliates is reprehensible, shameful, insensitive to the nature and mission of public broadcasting. 35. The Republicans have also been better at developing their smaller contributors by exchanging their donor lists with other like-minded groups. 36. The universities are concerned that the new legislation would make donor lists more readily available to the public. 37. Then, just before or after declaring for the presidency, the candidates purchase the donor lists from their PACs for use in their own campaigns. 38. Today, two years later, their names remain on the donor candidate list. 39. Candidates often lose money when they send out letters in search of contributions, considering it an investment in building a donor list they can use again and again. 40. Hagelin and Perot loyalists accused the Buchanan camp earlier this week of illegally padding the lists of ballot recipients with people from his Republican donor lists. |