Word: ticketeer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...high-priced dinner is a favorite device, since it is often lucrative (two such affairs recently raised $3.3 million for Nixon). Also, overhead is relatively low. No sales pitch by the candidate is necessary; the ticket price is an advance contribution. Republicans raised a hefty $21.5 million this way in 1968, and the Democrats $17.9 million. Although the price of tickets sometimes runs higher, Republicans generally stop at $1,000 a plate and Democrats at $500. Since the dinners are large and each guest pays the same price, the taint of special privilege is slight. On a smaller scale, sponsors...
Nixon himself was almost cast off the 1952 Republican ticket because of an $18,000 campaign fund, and Lyndon Johnson was shadowed for a time by the Bobby Baker scandals...
...course, the ticket price of $25 for the affair certainly discouraged the attendance of any but the wealthy. This is understandable, particularly for an event billed as a fund-raiser. But what is less understandable is that this kind of crowd, made up of people from Newton and Brookline, not New Bedford or South Boston, represents McGovern's most ardent following, and form, in effect, a prison out of which he has been unable to escape...
This art event was the biggest fund- raiser for the McGovern-Shriver ticket planned for Massachusetts...
Significantly, Boston is not the only city supporting the Democratic ticket by means of the arts. On September 21, the Sidney Janis Gallery together with the Pace Gallery in New York sponsored an art sale including a limited-edition portfolio of such pop artists as Robert Rauschenberg, Claus Oldenberg, Roy Lichtenstein and Jasper Johns. Such art-fund-raising sales will continue until the election--in Washington, D.C., Chicago, Milwaukee and L.A. Although that art-politic phenomenon is new for the 470 Gallery, cities like Los Angeles have sponsored promenades of the art galleries in order to elect congressmen. Individual galleries...