"As an elected official, I think I
am the only person I know of who is supposed to take large amounts of
money from private individuals who very much want me to do a certain
thing and then act as if they haven't given it to me, to ignore the
money. I'm supposed to be a perfect ingrate and that's hard to do,
given human nature." Barney Frank, D-Mass. During a 2006 interview with
Etopia Media
WASHINGTON - Alan Kovacs has contributed to political campaigns since he was a senior in college almost four decades ago.
But
now he is making a public show of closing his wallet, fed up with
Congress' failure to act on pressing issues such as the excesses that
caused the financial meltdown.
He is part of a grass-roots initiative led by Internet guru Lawrence Lessig and Joe Trippi, a master of using small-dollar donations to finance political campaigns, that seeks to get big money out of politics.
