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That "family picnic" was the second fund raiser there in less than a week for Mark Kennedy Shriver, who is looking to step up to Congress from the Maryland state assembly. A month before, the $10-a-head "50th-birthday party" the Shrivers threw for Kathleen backed up traffic more than a mile as nearly 5,000 people showed up for R.F.K.'s eldest...
...concerned by the "AIDS is from Venus and HIV is from Mars" stance of the government, Uys found himself on the road again, this time visiting impoverished schools with a free and very frank show about safe sex called For Facts' Sake. Foreign Aids is not just a consciousness raiser. It's also a fund raiser for charities close to Uys' heart, like Wola Nani, a refuge for HIV-positive teenage mothers. Next year, he plans to add a further 400 schools to the 160 he has already visited. Before then, he will take Foreign Aids to the Netherlands...
...been herding recalcitrant Democrats. Forget your old fear that a soft-money ban hurts Democrats as much as Republicans, he tells them. Democrats caught up with Republicans in raising soft money because Bill Clinton used the White House to vacuum in millions. But W., an even better fund raiser than Bill, now occupies that real estate, so "there's no way that Democrats can compete," Gephardt argues. It's a plea for self-interest, but one that politicians can understand...
...majority whip, a perch he is currently trying to use to block the Bush Administration from putting the nuclear dump in his state. "This is wrong what they're trying to do," insists Reid. Last May, majority leader Tom Daschle flew to Las Vegas to speak at a fund raiser for Reid. "As long as we're in the majority," Daschle vowed, "[the Yucca Mountain project] is dead...
...Republicans, there are big bucks at stake: You?ve got a fund-raiser in the White House who?s even better at raising money than Bill Clinton was. So if these restrictions go through, you?re slamming the door on a whole lot of cash...