Word: contributors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...different directions that, at times, nothing seems to go anywhere." The most pernicious effect of the influence-peddling game may simply be that it consumes so much of a Congressman's working day. Every time a Congressmen takes a PAC check, he is obliged at least to grant the contributor an audience. The IOUs mount up. "Time management is a serious problem," says Frank. "I find myself screening out people who just want to bill their clients for talking to a Congressman." The lobbyists are not unmindful of congressional impatience. Lobbyist Dan Dutko, for instance, has a "five- second rule...
...last decade, legislators have become regular customers of political action committees, the only contributors able to meet the high cost of political campaigns. In 1974, 608 PACs gave $12.5 million to congressional candidates; by 1984, 4009 PACs were donating $110 million, more than an eightfold increase. House members received, on average, 41 percent of their campaign funds from political action committees, according to Common Cause. The small individual contributor (now almost a romantic fiction) carries little political significance when matched up against the Sunkist PAC, which promises $5000 for every campaign...
...biggest transfers trove belongs to Assembly Speaker Willie Brown, a Democrat, who raised $4.2 million in contributions that he could use in his own or other 1984 campaigns. Brown pumped nearly $1.2 million of that bundle into 14 other races, making the powerful speaker California's largest single political contributor. "It's an absolute arms race," admits Brown, who only last December picked up a cool $700,000 at a fund raiser he gave in Los Angeles, featuring such celebrities as Actors Morgan Fairchild and George Hamilton. "I do marvelous events," Brown says coyly...
...Another contributor to increased sales has been the expansion of insignia product lines. UCLA's "Bearwear" department stocks 30 different T-shirts and 15 different sweatshirts, said an official at the store...
...very confident," Fusco says. "And he doesn't appear to be nervous. He should be a very big contributor, especially by the end of the year...