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TONY BENNETT, MICHAEL BOLTON and...DICK GEPHARDT? Well, yes, because that swinging trio will be headlining at Gephardt's mega-political fund raiser in St. Louis, Mo., at the end of June. Gephardt's taste in music interests no one in Washington, but his ability to sing for his supper does. The event is for Gephardt's congressional-campaign coffers, which of course can be converted to a presidential war chest in a snap. Gephardt is determined to show the smart money in Washington that he can compete with AL GORE at fund raising. The event is a very early...
...been haunting him and giving comfort to the White House. First the New York Times reported he accepted an invitation to play in a Pro-Am golf tournament at Pebble Beach, Calif., sponsored by AT&T, which has business before Burton's committee. AT&T also threw a fund raiser for Burton during the tournament...
...nominee: "I make six figures and have an expense account that reaches from here to eternity. Tell me again why I would want to run the nomination gauntlet to toil away in a huge government bureaucracy." Statements like that help explain why a nominee like businessman and Democratic fund raiser Terry McAuliffe withdrew his name from consideration for Secretary of Commerce. Even hush-hush high finance isn't a draw: two governorships on the Federal Reserve are vacant. Any takers...
...Democratic National Committee faces a financial crisis that puts it "in the worst shape it's ever been," says a major fund raiser. "I'm not sure it can recover." Fund raising is always hardest right after a national election; D.N.C. officials emphasize they have reached all their money targets so far this year and expect to raise at least $50 million in 1997. But the party is $14.4 million in debt and must repay $1.5 million more in contributions now judged improper. It is awkward to ask legitimate donors to cough up cash that will end up reimbursing illegitimate...
...fund-raising lunch in Los Angeles for the Senator. Daschle has returned the roughly $3,000 raised at that lunch from Huang and his wife Jane; James Riady, who was Huang's boss at Lippo; Maria Hsia, who would later co-chair the infamous 1996 Buddhist-temple fund raiser attended by Al Gore; and several others. Daschle was not alone in recommending Huang: the businessman was also tipped for a job in a recently released 1992 Democratic National Committee memo...