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Big bucks help breed bipartisanship
http://www.politico.com/story/2013/05/interest-groups-money-bipartisanship-91580.html?hp=l1
Big bucks help breed bipartisanship
By MAGGIE HABERMAN | 5/18/13 6:59 AM EDT Updated: 5/18/13 4:19 PM EDT
There’s nothing like the overflowing coffers of interest groups to get political consultants in a gridlocked Washington to see the value of bipartisanship.
The group formed by Mark Zuckerberg to push for immigration reform has brought together GOP operatives who spent 2012 attacking Democratic Senate candidates with a former spokesman for Bill Clinton and a former Democratic Governors Association spokeswoman.
And when Mike Bloomberg-founded group Mayors Against Illegal Guns ordered up ads hitting Democrats who voted against expanded background checks, instead of using their longtime Democratic ad man, they enlisted a Republican public affairs firm that worked extensively for tobacco companies and, more recently, the tea party group FreedomWorks.
It’s the latest illustration of how bipartisanship, something that both sides bemoan the absence of, is easier to come by when there is money to be made.