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WASHINGTON, D.C.: Brother, can you spare $250,000? That?s the plea President Clinton will make to 40 or 50 of his wealthiest supporters over dinner Wednesday night in a desperate attempt to balance the Democrat's sagging books as the midterm election season fast approaches. Clinton will ask each of his pals to raise or donate $250,000 over the next two years to help retire the party's $14.5 million debt. The DNC has met all its money targets so far this year, and expects to raise at least $50 million in 1997. But while the flush...
...dinner with Barbour as host for Young at Sam & Harry's, a Washington haunt popular with politicians. Barbour said the G.O.P. think tank would use the loan to pay back its start-up money to the R.N.C., which was then gearing up for the midterm election. Indeed, the think tank transferred $1.6 million to the R.N.C. three weeks before the triumphant G.O.P. takeover of Congress. Young received a taste of the victory in a meeting with Newt Gingrich a few days before the Speaker took the House gavel. The event was arranged as a "personal favor" to Barbour, according...
...reach the White House, so Blair is willing to become the acceptable face of Thatcherism to reach No. 10. Yet cloning has its limits, and Blair knows them well. He understands what happens when the dissonance between campaigning and governing becomes too great. Asked about the Republicans' 1994 midterm sweep, Blair suggested Clinton lacked the will to pursue the New Democrat policies on which he ran. "You don't run on one basis and govern on another," he said...
...should be very successful running campaigns. "Reed is considered a very skilled, talented person in the field of political strategy and tactics," Barrett says. "He knows how the machine works, and he knows how to work it." Likely clients include candidates in high-visibility Senate races in the '98 midterm elections. "Reed could work for any clients he wants, which he couldn't do under the Christian Coalition because of its nature. Now he can be a much more direct political operative...
Monday 10:07 a.m.: Students arrived to take their midterm in Foreign Cultures 48: "The Cultural Revolution." Thirty exams and many blue books disappeared under mysterious circumstance, leaving mystified teaching fellows and irate students in its wake. Order broke down among the students...