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...center cost the University $1.2 million, nearly half of which was contributed by one donor. How many calls would it take for our favorite fund-raiser to put together that kind of money? Better still, the University commissioned plans for the Katz Center just two years ago. And once the donations were in place, construction was completed in a remarkable two months. The only downside to the Katz Center is that Penn undergrads must pay $75 for a yearly membership. But that's not the point. The point: Where there's a will for a new gym, there...
...Griffin, as well as Tommy Boggs, the king of Washington lobbyists. In regular contact with lawmakers and their top staffs, members of the President's shadow lobbying enterprise are in a good position to test Clinton's fortunes. Separately, businessman Terry McAuliffe, Clinton's close friend and principal fund raiser, is known to have phoned hundreds of Democratic financial supporters to rally support for the President. They, in turn, are calling in their support to Democratic lawmakers. And it would be hard for lawmakers to miss the implicit message: You want my money? We want your vote. Or at least...
...July. McMullen has law and business degrees from Harvard; Tuttle dropped out in the 10th grade. McMullen, a millionaire, spent $475,000, including $227,000 of his own money. Tuttle lives on Social Security and spent $200, mostly for Porta-Potti's at his nickel-a-plate "FredFest" fund raiser. McMullen ran ads and crisscrossed the state. Tuttle sat on his porch nursing his bum knee, venturing out for debates only in the campaign's last week. Tuttle beat McMullen, 24,561 votes...
...another three months before the Clinton-Mondale association made headlines. On June 10, 1996, while Hillary was in Detroit, Mondale attended a Clinton fund-raiser at the Hollywood home of producer Lew Wasserman. Now clearly a name in her own right, she managed to upstage fellow celebs Barbra Streisand and Richard Baskin. Gossip columnists went wild over that alone -- "Streisand sulked because Clinton only had eyes for Eleanor," reported the Daily Mail. The Washington Post added that Mondale, Streisand and others joined Clinton in his private suite for a final drink, and "stayed up late with him nibbling fruit...
...normal year, politicians would scramble to be seen with a President whose job-approval ratings have remained over 60%. But in Raleigh, N.C., Democratic freshman Bob Etheridge proudly boasts that Tipper Gore will be appearing at a fund raiser for him this week and grows evasive when asked whether he'd like a similar favor from the Commander in Chief. "I ran my own campaign last time, and we plan to do the same thing this time," he says. His reluctance is understandable, given the fact that Etheridge recently became the first Democrat to be the target of a television...