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The New York Times > Fashion & Style > Cutting Edge in the Arts Now Is Joining a PAC: "the group's research indicates about 85 percent of its contributors have never given to any candidate or party before.
'It backs up our suspicions that you have this huge class of people who work in culture and information industries that are driving our economy, who are liberal culturally, but they really weren't doing very much,' Mr. Stowers said. 'A lot of people have worked on the environment or gay rights, and those things are important. But unlike the Christian right, which tends to focus on winning elections, liberals have tended to place their energies into issue advocacy and have not directly engaged in elections. It's a famous quote that `the left won the culture wars, the right won the elections.' '"

As artists become more directly politically active, will the funding structure of the SCFD still work? How will the $37 million be spent each year? How has it been spend over the last 20 years? Why hasn't one of our daily newspapers taken a look at this? What we know for sure is that symphony concerts are still half full in one of the best markets for good music in the country.