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...cadre launch an unsanctioned barrage of missiles at Gaza settlements. Hamas leaders tell TIME that Deif, who lost an eye in an Israeli assassination attempt in 2002, will now look increasingly to powerful Hamas moneyman Khaled Meshaal for instructions and financial support. The group's chief fund raiser, who splits his time between Qatar and Syria, has become more assertive. When political leaders in Gaza were about to select a moderate as their new chief, he ordered them to delay the appointment. But Meshaal could in some ways be a moderating influence on the Gaza fighters. He is resisting pressure...
...Governor gets requests from all across the country to help candidates. The President will be one of those he helps." ROB STUTZMAN, spokesman for California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, after the Governor missed a Silicon Valley fund raiser for President Bush to attend meetings in Sacramento...
...figure soft-money donations to compete with the legions of Republicans able to write hard-money checks for $2,000, the party of the little guy will have to lure little checks from the Democratic base. "One of the keys to victory for us," says Florida Democratic fund raiser Mitchell Berger, "will be to take those $100 middle-class donors and convince them that their $100 really means something." But even though it has vastly expanded its donor list, the D.N.C. still managed to raise less than half of what its Republican counterpart...
...abided by the federal finance rules, Kerry would have already hit his limits and would not have been able to spend any more money until he formally got the nomination. In addition, as other candidates have dropped out of the race, his campaign has scooped up their fund raisers. Whereas his Internet operation raised $50,000 on its best day in 2003, it is now bringing in about $200,000 every day. And the candidate himself, who has attended only one fund raiser so far this year, is scheduling at least 20 of them across the country in March...
...does the Bush team raise all that money, and where does it come from? First, there are the well-heeled big donors who give $2,000 apiece. The Bush-Cheney campaign wrangles them through its Rangers--fund raisers who are required amass at least $200,000 (that is, they round up 100 people who will give $2,000 each). The system is so well-organized that each fund raiser is assigned a number, and that number is put on donors' checks. If the fund raisers make their quotas, they get benefits like a visit to Bush at his ranch...