Word: bren
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...showdown came on the evening of Sept. 7 at the Newport Beach mansion of billionaire Donald Bren, the Irvine Co. developer and a longtime Wilson backer. In a tense session with Wilson, Bren and Fuller, Gorton recommended bugging out of Iowa for lack of organization, manpower and money. Instead the campaign should concentrate on New York, he said, where TV ads can achieve far more bang for the buck. Fuller argued vehemently against the idea, but Wilson backed Gorton. Fuller then sidelined himself to Washington as fund-raising supervisor and surrogate public campaigner, leaving Gorton supreme in Sacramento--for about...
...February 1990, California Republicans were feeling so scorned and abused that Bush set out to repair the rift. That spring, Sununu and the late Lee Atwater mended fences with several dozen big-dollar fund raisers at the Orange County home of developer Donald Bren. More recently, Wilson invited Sununu to Sacramento for his swearing...