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No Campaign Reform? No Money, Activists Say

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.

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