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...from writing million-dollar checks to buy influence with the parties. (Enron and its affiliates, for example, spent over $2 million in soft money for the 2000 elections.) But just as water tends to find ways to flow, "money will still get to the campaigns," predicts a G.O.P. fund raiser. Special-interest groups wouldn't be able to use soft money to broadcast attacks on radio or TV just before an election, but the bill doesn't prevent them from putting that cash into direct-mail, e-mails or get-out-the-vote campaigns against a candidate. The soft-money...
...current and former state legislators--plan to send Rove and White House political director Ken Mehlman a letter protesting Bush's support of Congressman Saxby Cham-bliss over Irvin in the Aug. 20 primary. (Bush expects to raise $1.7 million for Chambliss at a March 27 fund raiser.) "It would be a mistake for you to try to control the Senate primary here, just as it turned out to be a mistake in the California pri-mary for Governor," they wrote...
There were only about 40 people on hand to witness it last Tuesday night when Al Gore dipped a tentative toe back into politics. At a fund raiser for Massachusetts Representative Richard Neal at a downtown Washington steak house, Gore - still bearded and not yet back in fighting trim - tried out a few self-deprecating one-liners. He spends his days teaching a bit, he told the smallish room. "I'm a visiting professor - v.p. for short. It's a way of hanging...
...rematch with George W. Bush seems to be what Al Gore has in mind. At a recent dinner for Democratic fund raisers in Manhattan, Gore ripped into Bush's handling of the presidency. The President's philosophy is "speak loudly and carry a small stick," he said. Fund raiser Robert Zimmerman, who organized the dinner, says, "We saw how energized he was and how enthusiastic he was about being in the national debate." The pointed critique may have been a test run for next month, when Gore will return to his Alamo, giving a speech to the Florida Democratic convention...
Though registered participants had to raise a minimum of $100 to participate, the top fund-raiser passed the $8,000 mark and a handful of others also raised thousands of dollars...