Word: campaign
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...seems to feel roughly the same way about money, and has already squirreled away $7 million in campaign contributions despite the fact that his next election is more than three years away. Huge chunks have come from law enforcement and California Indian tribes, each of whom would appear to have got nice air kisses in return. But Garry South, Davis' senior political adviser, says there's a long list of contributors who aren't very happy, beginning with the state teachers' union. The Governor's education-reform package offers a carrot--cash bonuses for teachers and schools that pump...
...Campaign-finance reform has a nice and legitimate ring to it," says Davis, whose two primary opponents last year put up $60 million together, almost all of it their own, against his $10 million. "But it is also an invitation to every Silicon Valley billionaire to spend his own money" to get elected in an effort to bury "people who have devoted most of their lives to public service...
...says, that he saw America for the first time, and it changed him. "I was really offended by the notion that this war was being fought largely by minorities and Southern whites," he said. Three years later, the whitest man in America was finance director for the mayoral campaign of a black man--Tom Bradley of Los Angeles. His next job was chief of staff for Jerry Brown, and Davis says he knew then that he wanted to be Governor. His mother traces the ambition back a little further, saying that at 11, Davis wrote a proclamation honoring his parents...
During this campaign, he has given to the University as a whole and to HBS. How much, he prefers not to disclose. Some of his donations have endowed chairs; others have gone into both restricted and unrestricted funds, and many of his gifts have been anonymous...
...Wednesday, Harvard celebrated the success of its recent capital campaign. Our friends in the administration raised $2.1 billion. They held a big party in Manhattan to congratulate themselves and the donors. If the federal government had Neil L. Rudenstine's fundraising skills, we might be able to save Social Security and Medicare. Harvard plans to use the money to construct new ornamental towers for Sever, Emerson and the government tutorial office on Dunster Street...