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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...
...Clinton-era White House chief of staff Erskine Bowles, by a 47-point margin. Still, Dole's race for the seat being vacated by Jesse Helms may not be as easy as it once seemed. Democrats have put up TV ads blasting her for a Ken Lay-hosted fund raiser just nine days after Sept. 11. (Her campaign has since donated $5,000 received from Enron's ex-CEO and his relatives to a fund for employees of the bankrupt energy giant.) Some scoffed at Dole's declaring her mother's Salisbury home as her residence, when...
...Republican officials confirm to Time that Cheney was the star attraction of at least three party fund raisers during the period he was ostensibly holed up in "secure, undisclosed locations." Two of the events for GOP congressional leaders fell just a few days after the White House's Dec. 3 public warning of possible new terrorist strikes. On Dec. 6, Cheney traveled to Dallas to address 1,200 people at a dinner for majority leader Dick Armey's special-election fund. The following day the Vice President arrived at Oklahoma City's Petroleum Club for a $1,000-a-person...
...BIKE TOUR Enron was a top fund raiser for this annual event, a ride from Houston to Austin, sponsored by the Multiple Sclerosis Society...
This comic-book fund raiser collects more than 60 black-and-white vignettes about Sept. 11 into 208 pages. Most are indie artists' personal accounts of that day, like Evan Forsch's escape from the 89th floor of the north tower. With profits going to various charities, comic books like this--including Marvel's Heroes and September 11, a two-volume set jointly published by DC and others--are providing both an artistic outlet and a way to help...