Word: moneyman
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...flattered. The Bradley network is full of the high-profile people he has stroked and courted for decades: billionaire moneyman Herb Allen, media moguls Barry Diller and Michael Eisner, film director Sydney Pollack, Barnes & Noble chairman Len Riggio. They build support and raise money for Bradley, and in return he makes them feel good about themselves. Says Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz: "I just feel better for knowing him." Bradley likes to say, "This is not just a campaign, but something more"--a high-minded mission. That sounds trite, until you see it in action...
...Senate, where it has died oh-so-many deaths before. For years running, John McCain and Russ Feingold have seen their own soft-money ban gather a majority of 52 votes in the Senate, still eight short of busting the promised filibuster of the GOP?s head moneyman, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky. The head?counters say eight votes is still just too much to roust up on an issue that?s near and dear to GOP leaders (who hand out the soft money come reelection time) but somewhat less so to voters. Will this year be different? McCain, of course...
While GEORGE W. BUSH saunters toward a presidential candidacy--allies say he'll announce an exploratory committee within a week or two--fund raisers for rival campaigns are getting night sweats. "Waiting for his decision has been suffocating," complains a top moneyman for another campaign. Other Republican hopefuls crisscross the country and strain eager smiles for potential donors, but the Texas Governor has let the party come to him. Last week a muscular troika of rainmakers that included investment banker HENRY KRAVIS, oilman JOHN MORAN and fund manager LEWIS EISENBERG made the pilgrimage. Rival camps are terrified that Bush will...
While George W. Bush saunters toward a presidential candidacy -- allies say he?ll announce an exploratory committee within a week or two -- fund-raisers for rival campaigns are getting night sweats. ?Waiting for his decision has been suffocating,? complains a top moneyman for another campaign. Other Republican hopefuls crisscross the country and strain eager smiles for potential donors, but the Texas governor has let the party come to him. Last week a muscular troika of rainmakers that included investment banker Henry Kravis, oilman John Moran and fund manager Lewis Eisenberg made the pilgrimage. Rival camps are terrified that Bush will...
...expected, was exploring a run for the 2000 Democratic nomination, buried a telling detail about the Democratic race. Near the top of a long list of Bradley backers and supporters was LOUIS B. SUSMAN, a Chicago investment banker, former fund raiser for TED KENNEDY and a longtime backer and moneyman for Gephardt. Aides to the Missouri Congressman were surprised to see Susman's name on Bradley's website, not only because Susman raised a big chunk of Gephardt's campaign war chest in 1988 but also because he has been touted as an important benefactor in any White House...