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The book that I wrote is called Dark Money, and it's about secret spending that is very hard to follow. [George] Soros's whole thing is about government transparency, so he spends very much in the open, and the same with [Tom] Steyer.
Jane Mayer
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Jane Mayer
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 1
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