Mark Green, in The Nation (Sept. 15, 1984),P.O. Box 1953,Marion, Ohio 43305.
Since 1974, political action committees (PACs) funded business, labor, and single-interest groups have multiplied like rabbits. But after early public alarm over the prospect of such committees "buying" elec- tions, a pro-PAC backlash set in. PACs, it was said, are not really so bad. Green, president of the Democracy Project, a Washington advocacy group, contends that the critics were right.
PAC defenders point...