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Patrick’s trade missions help, but donations must be open

    June 01, 2012

There are, by now, so many ways that individual donors and special interests can support political candidates that only absolute openness by the groups collecting the funds, and vigilance by outside watchdog groups like Common Cause, can ensure that no favors are exchanged and that all money is properly spent. In this growing constellation, the nonprofit created by Governor Patrick to fund his overseas trade missions is relatively benign — but transparency is still in order.

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