Dim Bulb: Melanie Sloan

Published March 24, 2011 4:00am ET



Who: Melanie Sloan, executive director, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington What: Said “It is incredibly ironic that Crossroads [Grassroots Policy Strategies] wants to talk about openness when they are highly secretive. I think the whole thing is a gimmick.”

WHY IT’S DIM: CREW refuses to discuss its own donors, according to its spokesman, Garrett Russo.

CURE: Is there one for hypocrisy?