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Sierra Club

NPR's Peter Overby reports on how one group, the Sierra Club is makings its voice heard in the 2000 Presidential campaign by making issue ads. With no limit on what interest groups can collect and spend, issue ads are often one way they advocate for their preferred candidate. Vice President Al Gore is the beneficiary of the issue ad campaign by the Sierra Club, an environmental group.

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