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...stature, that wouldn't be hard, with a series of major dinners in about 30 cities. What would be tricky is organizing the drive at the same time that Powell is building a field organization, honing a message and gathering endorsements. "Fund raising for Powell," said G.O.P. fund raiser Peter Turpeluk, "is going to be like managing an orgy...
...terms of us vs. them--into second place in the polls, just behind Senate majority leader Bob Dole. After a long time of hand-to-mouth electioneering, Buchanan earlier this month also claimed second place in the money race, surpassing the third-quarter fund raising of formidable fund raiser Phil Gramm...
...much as $1 million and that some vendors are not being paid. That deficit alone might be enough to jeopardize the campaign next month when it files its third-quarter Federal Election Commission report. Wilson is now making money-raising phone calls "a mile a minute," as a fund raiser puts it, in an effort to show respectable cash on hand. A senior Wilson operative says if the red ink is not stemmed, the candidate may have to pull out: "We'll have to see where we are at the end of the month...
...weeks, more than 10 U.S. Senators and Congressmen from both parties have telephoned Powell backers to urge the general to run for President. And, perhaps more important, big Republican benefactors are slowing their giving until Powell makes up his mind. "We're hitting two walls," a Wilson fund raiser confesses. "One is the wall everyone is hitting. The second wall is named Colin Powell...
...wallets of Wall Street for Bob Dole, who calls him "the man who won't take yes for an answer." Common Cause president Ann McBride doesn't share Dole's sense of humor on the subject. "When the Banking chairman comes calling as the party's chief fund raiser," she says, "and comes on in a particularly aggressive way, it isn't a scandal waiting to happen. It's a scandal right...