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- May 22, 2010
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Here's the end of Tapper's interview with Axelrod:
TAPPER: But what do you say to people who argue you are demonizing an organization for a charge that nobody knows if it's true or not?
AXELROD: Well Im not demonizing the Chamber of Commerce. Im simply suggesting to them that they disclose the source of the $75 million that they are spending in campaigns and put to rest, put to rest the questions that have been, that have been raised.
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TAPPER: Isn't that like the whackjobs that tell the president he needs to show them his full long-form birth certificate so he can put to rest the questions that have been raised?
AXELROD: The presidents birth certificate has been available to people.
TAPPER: The long form?
AXELROD: Someone once in the course of this debate about whether we should have a law to force these organizations to disclose where theyre money is coming from in the campaigns, someone said, and I think theyre right the only people who want to keep things secret are folks who have something to hide. If the Chamber doesnt have anything to hide about these contributions, and I take them at their word that they dont, then why not disclose? Why not let people see where their money is coming from?
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TAPPER: But what do you say to people who argue you are demonizing an organization for a charge that nobody knows if it's true or not?
AXELROD: Well Im not demonizing the Chamber of Commerce. Im simply suggesting to them that they disclose the source of the $75 million that they are spending in campaigns and put to rest, put to rest the questions that have been, that have been raised.
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T24gsn89AAE&feature=player_embedded[/ame]
TAPPER: Isn't that like the whackjobs that tell the president he needs to show them his full long-form birth certificate so he can put to rest the questions that have been raised?
AXELROD: The presidents birth certificate has been available to people.
TAPPER: The long form?
AXELROD: Someone once in the course of this debate about whether we should have a law to force these organizations to disclose where theyre money is coming from in the campaigns, someone said, and I think theyre right the only people who want to keep things secret are folks who have something to hide. If the Chamber doesnt have anything to hide about these contributions, and I take them at their word that they dont, then why not disclose? Why not let people see where their money is coming from?
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