Lobbying loophole: Apply campaign rules to inaugural donations - The Register-Guard, Eugene, Oregon, USA

Lobbying loophole: Apply campaign rules to inaugural donations - The Register-Guard, Eugene, Oregon, USA: "January 18, 2005

Lobbying loophole: Apply campaign rules to inaugural donations
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To some people, complaints about who's ponying up the money for President Bush's Thursday inaugural festivities sound like so much sour grapes. Get over it, they say. The man won the election, now let him have his celebration.
No one begrudges President Bush a dignified inauguration or the pomp and circumstance that herald the arrival of a new administration. It is a ringing endorsement of American democracy that the nation can celebrate the peaceful "