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Drug firms poured cash into Hatch campaign
Politics » Big Pharma stepped in when the Utah senator needed it most.


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Emerson, meanwhile, previously worked for Hatch and served as Ensign’s chief of staff in the U.S. House of Representatives. He once was the executive director of the Utah Republican Party.

During the campaign, Freedom Path also hired the consulting firm November Inc., which is headed by Mike Slanker, a former NRSC operative and Ensign aide.

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Rick Hasen, a professor at the University of California-Irvine law school, said that voters should have been informed of PhRMA’s $750,000donation because it would have helped them judge the "credibility of the ads."

"Groups adopt anodyne names like ‘Freedom Path’ which reveal nothing to voters about who is really behind political advertising," he said. "Voters may have liked or not liked that Senator Hatch’s election was being supported by the pharmaceutical industry, but they should have known about it."

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