{
  "id": "1996-january-from-page-four-linking-contributions",
  "slug": "1996-january-from-page-four-linking-contributions",
  "url": "https://dwillis.github.io/uplink/article/1996-january-from-page-four-linking-contributions.html",
  "year": 1996,
  "month": "January",
  "monthNum": 1,
  "headline": "From page four: Linking contributions",
  "kicker": "",
  "author_name": "",
  "author_title": "",
  "affiliation": "",
  "summary": "Campaign finance researchers advocate for voluntary candidate disclosure of donations before legal requirements force compliance, citing success with early adoption creating a domino effect among other candidates.",
  "keywords": [
    "disclosure",
    "donations",
    "campaigns"
  ],
  "topics": [
    "Government & Politics",
    "Investigative Methods"
  ],
  "technologies": [],
  "full_text": "But the key is to get the candidates to disclose before the law forces them to. Young and Suo recommend approaching the most amenable campaign first.\n\n\"Peter DeFazio agreed on a Monday morning. Once I got him, it was like dominoes,\" Young recalled. \"It was not hard to do it. I had it sewn up in one day.\"\n\nMakinson promised to apply much of what he learned in the special Senate race to the 1996 elections. Contributions to presidential hopefuls and candidates for a few Senate seats will be likely subjects of pre-election scrutiny next year.",
  "provenance": {
    "extracted_by": "anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-6",
    "extracted_at": "2026-07-05",
    "verified": true
  },
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      "slug": "1996-january-on-the-internet",
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