Word: schiff
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...part because she enjoyed the support of Gore's eldest daughter Karenna Schiff, Wolf sat in on strategy meetings, looked at speeches and ad copy, reviewed scripts and attended primary-debate preps. It was Wolf's idea to have Tipper keep talking about how sexy Gore was. It was Wolf's idea to encourage Gore, who was angry with Clinton anyway, to distance himself from the President...
...three top contributors to Schiff's campaign are Moveon.org, a Silicon Valley-based political action committee (PAC), Dreamworks SKG and Time Warner. Rogan's top contributors are Verizon Communications, Outback Steakhouse and Philip Morris. Although federal regulations limit contributions from corporate PACs to $5,000, the top-donor organizations have easily found loopholes. Philip Morris, for example, has contributed over $11,000 to Rogan. Whichever candidate wins, these corporations will expect a return on their investment in the form of votes in Congress. The voters of the 27th district will still choose which man to send to Washington. Whomever they...
...palm-lined streets of the San Gabriel Valley north of Los Angeles into a high-profile political battlefield. The New York Times Magazine cover story two weeks ago reported the race in California's 27th Congressional district is the most expensive in history. Democratic challenger and state senator Adam Schiff and Rogan have raised a combined $10,104,475 according to Federal Election Commission numbers released Tuesday...
This money is in addition to the over $10 million the candidates will spend themselves. And much of the candidates' money has come from organizations and individuals outside of the district. The largest individual contributions for Schiff have come from west Los Angeles, zipcode 90210; Rogan gets a third of his individual contributions from out of state. The same ideological fervor that drove the impeachment has prompted politically involved citizens from across the country to donate. Rogan's mailing list includes over 50,000 people from 46 states, and as of Tuesday, 83 percent of donations to the Rogan campaign...
...Meanwhile, even Schiff, who has become an important adviser to her father's campaign, seemed to have walked off the job at GoreNet, leaving her dad gallivanting through the Sunbelt, wooing retirees and trying desperately to feel their pain...