Oliver Hall
- Oct 13, 2009
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Panel Discussion at the Cato Institute

CCD Director Theresa Amato will join a panel discussion at the Cato Institute in Washington, D.C., about George Mason University Professor of Economics James Bennett’s book Not Invited to the Party: How the Demopublicans Have Rigged the System and Left Independents Out in the Cold. Amato’s book, Grand Illusion: The Myth of Voter Choice in a Two-Party Tyranny, was published by New Press in June 2009. Professor Bennett will also be joined by former Federal Election Commission member Hans A. von Spakovsky, in a panel moderated by John Samples of the Cato Institute. The event is at 12 PM with a luncheon to follow.

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