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Money Talks. Readers may remember Cato’s report earlier this year that the Republican National Committee was several million dollars in the hole and scrambling to come up with cash. For that remark we were spanked sharply by the RNC’s Mary Matalin in a letter published last issue.

Cato’s sources insist we were on target. And the RNC now lists disbursements for January at $3,512,939.24, a hefty sum to spend in a month with no campaigns and little political activity. Was the RNC just stocking up on paper clips, or was it catching up on some big unacknowledged bills?

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Money Talks. Readers may remember Cato’s report earlier this year that the Republican National Committee was several million dollars in the hole and scrambling to come up with cash. For that remark we were spanked sharply by the RNC’s Mary Matalin in a letter published last issue.

Cato’s sources insist we were on target. And the RNC now lists disbursements for January at $3,512,939.24, a hefty sum to spend in a month with no campaigns and little political activity. Was the RNC just stocking up on paper clips, or was it catching up on some big unacknowledged bills?