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Originally broadcast live on Thursday, January 8, 2004
Location: The National Press Club in Washington, DC

The Center for Public Integrity today releases its new book The Buying of the President 2004: Who's Really Bankrolling Bush and His Democratic Challengers – and What They Expect in Return, a thorough chronicling of the big donors who will largely decide the next occupant of the White House.

The book, published by HarperCollins, is the third in a series written by Charles Lewis and the staff of the Center examining big money in presidential politics, and comes at a time when President George Bush is raising a mind-boggling half-million dollars a day for the 2004 campaign.

"The real powers that be in this country are not on any ballot," commented Lewis, whose remarks will be web cast on Thursday, January 8 at 10 a.m. "And they are accountable to no one. The Buying of the President 2004 unmasks the powerful special interests behind our national politics today. The bottom line is that the American people have a right to know who is underwriting their presidential candidates, and their democracy," he said.

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