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To: Zoltan! who wrote (57371)	7/23/1999 3:01:00 PM
From: DMaA	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

Only in Washington does it NOT take two to tango.

To: Zoltan! who wrote (57371)	7/23/1999 3:09:00 PM
From: Bill	Respond to of 67261

And your guess would be correct.

To: Zoltan! who wrote (57371)	7/23/1999 7:03:00 PM
From: DMaA	Respond to of 67261

We've got a situation here that's just too sweet for words. Weeks after our Democrat AG made a cause celebre over a bank renting customer info, front page news for weeks, banked coerced into contributing a couple of million bucks to a charity, this little page 11 story appeared in todays Red Star: startribune.com Published Friday, July 23, 1999 MPR says it traded donor names with Democrats Statewire ST. PAUL (AP) -- Minnesota Public Radio says it once traded donor names with the Democratic National Committee but will never do it again. MPR and other public broadcasting organizations say trading and sharing donor lists is legal. But recent revelations that at least two dozen public television stations exchanged membership lists with political groups is causing political problems in Washington for public broadcasting. Some Republican lawmakers on Capitol Hill responded by renewing calls to strip public broadcasting of its $250 million federal government subsidy. In a story aired Thursday, MPR, which has a membership list of about 88, 000, said it made a brokered-trade of 10, 000 names with the DNC in 1995. On two other occasions, MPR said it also bought names from the DNC and once in 1996, it bought 5,000 names from the re-election campaign of Democratic Sen. Paul Wellstone.[CAN YOU CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTION!!??] The lists are used for direct mail appeals to raise money. In its story, MPR said it never sold its membership list to any organization and that it will no longer trade names with " any partisan political organization." Glen Fisher, vice president of development and communications for St. Paul public television station KTCA, said his station has not exchanged lists with any political parties or campaigns but the station did buy lists from political groups affiliated with both Republicans and Democrats. At least one Minnesota Republican legislator was critical Thursday of MPR' s trade with the Democrats. State Rep. Mike Osskopp, R-Lake City, said the practice gives ammunition to people who don' t like public broadcasting. " You know you have people out there who question the reliability of what you do based on your political philosophy, " he told MPR. " And then, to turn around and blatantly admit that that' s what you' re doing, ' yeah, we' re a liberal organization. We' re aligned with the Democratic Party and to prove it, we' re going to give our subscriber list to the Democratic National Committee, ' that' s dumb. That' s just dumb." © Copyright 1999. All rights reserved. Stay tuned.