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But it was the grass-roots opposition to KYC, sparked in part by the Libertarian Party, whose protest Web site steered 171,268 e-mail complaints from netizens to the FDIC, that elevated the subject to the national agenda.
But McConnell gives away the game in telling the NYT that three groups that provide what he calls "valuable grass-roots support" (=soft money) had strongly opposed the reform bill.
Brinkley, a highly class-conscious historian, is better at robber barons, depressions, strikes, and grass-roots politics than at wars and natural history.
After 1995, the United States tried to hedge its bets, providing $26 million of United States Agency for International Development money to Indonesian nongovernmental organizations involved in grass-roots organizing.
Grass-roots organizations, political parties, and candidates routinely spend enormous sums of money and time on voter registration drives without any guarantee that they are helping their cause.