Nader Scams College Kids
Thursday, March 13, 2003
By Radley Balko
Each semester, Meremac Community College in St. Louis, Mo., charged Crystal Lewis for a service called “MOPIRG.” “I hadn’t the slightest idea what it was,” she says. The fine print on her bill read: “If you opt not to support MOPIRG, please deduct this amount from your payment.” So she did. But she still wasn’t sure what she was no longer paying for.
She was paying for a myriad of causes and advocacy efforts sponsored, endorsed and overseen by Ralph Nader. […].
Radley Balko is a writer living in Arlington, Va. He also maintains a weblog at www.theagitator.com.
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