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...Gore showed up on Letterman recently, he scored with his prepared material ("I gave you the Internet; I can take it away"), a gag the Modern Humorist, a website, claims Gore lifted. But the payoff for Gore came when David Letterman joked that the show was actually a fund raiser and that Gore would be out in the audience "to collect your thousand dollars." The Buddhist temple just hasn't had the same sting since...
...trading with China would be like asking Eddie Murphy to stop making sequels). Instead, Hollywood Democrats are standing rather stoically in this unflattering light. When they weren't in a defensive huddle over the report last week, studio executives were shaking hands with Lieberman and Gore at a fund-raiser and donating another $4.2 million to the party...
...November 1997, Trent Lott, the Mississippi Republican and Senate majority leader, and Mitch McConnell, the Republican Senator from Kentucky who believes unlimited campaign cash is a free-speech right, flew to Las Vegas aboard the jet of casino impresario Steve Wynn to attend a gaming industry G.O.P. fund raiser. The Republicans left with $100,000--the start of something big. Within a year, additional casino contributions would boost that sum to nearly $1 million...
...minority leader, and his colleague Charles Rangel, New York Democrat, flew to Las Vegas to pick up a check from Wynn in the amount of $250,000. The money went to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. And this week Gephardt and Rangel plan to return for yet another fund raiser, where they hope to raise...
Sometimes all this money was delivered privately. Sometimes it was delivered at public fund raisers held along the Strip. In that November 1997 fund raiser, gaming executives paid at least $1,000 a person to rub shoulders with Republican leaders Trent Lott and Mitch McConnell, in an event that gaming officials characterized as a "tremendous success." Democrats received similar treatment in July 1999 when House minority leader Richard Gephardt of Missouri, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee chairman Patrick Kennedy of Rhode Island and Ways and Means ranking member Charles Rangel of New York attended a Las Vegas luncheon...