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“There's a difference between those two [George Soroses and the Tom Steyers] and the Kochs that I think is important.”

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Jane Mayer is an American journalist renowned for her in-depth reporting on politics and the financial world. Born in 1955, she graduated from Harvard University and has worked as a journalist for The New York Times and The New Yorker. Mayer is praised for her critical analysis of power structures and her ability to narrate complex stories. more

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“The book that I wrote is called Dark Money, and it's about secret spending that is very hard to follow. [George] Soros's whole thing is about government transparency, so he spends very much in the open, and the same with [Tom] Steyer.”

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“I kept thinking maybe in the future editions [of Dark Money] I should sell it along with, like, some kind of, you know, Pepto Bismol or something. I wanted it to read a little bit like a thriller, so that it truly grabbed people.”

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“Let's face it, the subject of campaign finance is not always scintillating. But it's incredibly important.”

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“The Kochtopus is the nickname that people who've worked for the Kochs came up with because there's so many tentacles and it likes the shadows. I really feel the first step is to provide the information.”

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“If you have an informed electorate, it makes great choices.”

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“There have been waves of reform in the past. I see no reason why they wouldn't happen again.”

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“The concern that I have is that, as wealth continues to concentrate in the hands of a few, economic inequality grows, and power also becomes more unequal.”

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“The fear is that we'll move in the direction from being a democracy to an oligarchy.”

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“The Kochs have been activists since the 1970s. You can go back and look at the platform of the Libertarian Party in 1980 and see what they really believe in. They wanted to abolish huge swaths of the U.S. government, including the Internal Revenue Service. They want to get rid of Social Security. They'd like to get rid of Medicare. They'd like to abolish the Environmental Protection Agency, which directly affects their business.”

“It's quite amazingly radical, what their [the Kochs] vision of America would be.”

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