Saturday, November 16, 2013

Mary Bottari — Astroturf “Fix the Debt” Caught Ghostwriting for College Students

...Jon Romano, press secretary for the inside-the-beltway PR campaign “Fix the Debt” and its pet youth group, The Can Kicks Back, have been caught writing op-eds for college students and placing the identical op-eds in papers across the country.
This is the latest slip-up in Fix the Debt’s efforts to portray itself as representing America’s youth. Previously, they were caught paying dancers to participate in a pro-austerity flash mob and paying Change.org to gather online petition signers for them.The newspapers involved in the scam were not amused.
Campaign for America's Future
Astroturf “Fix the Debt” Caught Ghostwriting for College Students
Mary Bottari

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