The people have a right to know who's being funded by whom.
The event also was intended to build support for the Media Fund, an effort organized by Harold M. Ickes, a former key aide to President Clinton. This group hopes to raise as much as $80 million to fund an independent advertising campaign for the eventual Democratic presidential nominee.
This is the Shadow Fund that the Clinton's are master-minding and intending to control. The formal Democratic Party can just wither now as far as they are concerned. If ACT and the Media Fund can raise unlimited large donations (i.e. $10 million from George Soros) then Campaign Finance Reform means nothing--as maybe it should be.
It is wise of the Republicans to respond in kind and to force the issue. Just so we have a level playing field, good will triumph. When history is written, Bill Clinton, just like Gorbachev, will be listed as the cause of the final demise of his political party.