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...McConnell said on Thursday, challenging McCain to come forth with specific charges against individual senators. "How can there be corruption if no one is corrupt? That's like saying the gang is corrupt but none of the gangsters are." And on and on the Senate?s head GOP fund-raiser went, joined variously by Utah Republican Robert Bennett and Washington GOPer Slade Gorton, both mentioned on McCain?s web site as rather pliant targets of soft-money donations. And thus was Thursday frittered away...
...fact that a day of Republican cannibalism rites (performed while Democrats looked on in bemused horror) didn?t harm his chances of picking up those votes. That?s because those chances remain at slim to none, and to mangle the old aphorism, Slim?s out back holding a fund-raiser. With McConnell the one in charge of doling out the Senate GOP?s soft money, Republicans aren?t too keen on bucking him. Still, McCain and Feingold have done their part to make the bill as simple as possible, so as to give no one an easy excuse. They...
...lying. "Torricelli?s the head Democratic fund-raiser in the Senate," says Dickerson. "He doesn?t want this law. But if this thing starts to get close, you?re going to hear a lot of Democrats say very similar things: that stripped down, the bill suddenly doesn?t do enough...
...profit organization, run by the students of Eliot House, sends its proceeds to the Jimmy Fund, a branch of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute founded in 1948 to support efforts to eradicate cancer. The fund-raiser has raised over $2 million since it was first held...
...Tell me your story. It was a way to learn about the world, a way to come out of his shell, a way to build his network of elite supporters. "One of the first things he did was ask me about my life," says John Roos, a Bradley fund raiser and partner at a powerful Silicon Valley law firm. "Who I was, what I thought was important. I was extremely surprised...