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• Beef and breast cancer: an odd connection

  Published: July 27, 2007, 4:59 pm

  Tags: Beef, Cancer, Fundraising, Meat, Steak

  Filed under: FundraisersI didn't think much about it when I read the invitation. Sent by an old co-worker, it urged me to participate in a fundraiser for breast cancer. For $15, I could enjoy a huge steak dinner and some alcoholic beverages while supporting a worthy cause. I couldn't make it but thought it was a good idea anyway. But this article

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• A final word on the Debate

  Published: July 24, 2007, 3:30 pm

  Tags: Power Games, Racial Profiling, Bill Bradley, Political Expediency, Cnn Presidential Debates, Media Criticism, Barack Obama, 2008, Race, Fundraising, Hillary, Al Gore, Politics

  keeping pace with Al Gore's fundraising. Eight years ago, Bill Bradley was speaking with true candor about a great many issues with a forthrightness altogether lacking in our distinguished former Vice President. Bradley twisted a rhetorical knife in Al Gore's gut at Iowa's Black and Brown forum over racial profiling. He made the point that

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• CNN Debate Tonight

  Published: July 23, 2007, 6:18 pm

  Tags: Obama Vs Hillary, Power Games, Safe Negro Report, Black Voters, Beltway Pundits, Cnn Presidential Debates, Political Expediency, Obama For President, Dennis Kucinich, 2008, Race, Youtube, Fundraising, Hillary, John Edwards, Barack Obama, Politics

  The first of six officially sanctioned Democratic debates will be held tonight with CNN and Youtube as co-sponsors. Tonight’s debate will be availble in its entirety on this space as soon as Youtube makes it available and I can put it up. The pundit class has been chattering actively that its put up or shut up time for Barack Obama.

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• Dept. Of Tps Reports And A Check For Mccain Yeaaaaahhh: Cowed American Workers Love The Boss's Favorite Candidate!

  Published: August 7, 2007, 12:29 pm

  Tags: 2008, Bundling, Dept Of Tps Reports Check For Mccain Yeaaaaahhh, Everyone Whore, Fundraising, Money

  How many times has this happened to you? You’re sitting in your cube, slaving away for The Man, and your class-based resentment is building up, so you decide to donate a little money to fellow...

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• Where does all the cancer money go?

  Published: August 17, 2007, 3:00 am

  Tags: Administration, Awards, Breast, Cancer, Charitable, Contribution, Dollars, Donations, Education, Foundation, Fundraising, Komen, Money, Research, Screening, Susan, Treatment

  screening, eight percent on fundraising, and eight percent on administration. Finally, seven percent goes towards treatment.Komen professionals say they are extremely careful about how they spend the dollars entrusted to their care. And that makes me happy.Read   Permalink   Email this   Linking Blogs

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• WA-08: Bloggers Burn Bush for Burner

  Published: August 24, 2007, 4:48 pm

  Tags: Darcy Burner, Wa 08, Washington, House, Dave Reichert, 2008, 2008 Elections, Fundraising

  Bush will be raising money for Dave Reichert in Washington on Monday. Darcy Burner will be hosting an online Town Hall meeting on Iraq with Joe Wilson. And in the meantime, we can make it as painful as possible for Republicans to host Mr. 25%. As of 1:44 p.m. PT: 459 contributors and $18,026 raised at Burn Bush 707 contributors and $27,978

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• China Girl Dept.: RNC Calls Hill Manchurian Candidate

  Published: August 30, 2007, 12:40 pm

  Tags: Asians, China, China Girl Dept, Fundraising, Hillary Clinton, Race, Rnc, Scandal

  Big-time Hillary donor Norman Hsu is, apparently, a felon. California wants him for fraud — he pleaded guilty 15 years ago, and then managed the most effective and yet laziest escape ever from the long arms of the law, by simply not showing up to jail or something. Despite his three-year jail sentence for grand theft, California authorities

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• Hsu Flees: Press Not Interested In Income Source

  Published: September 5, 2007, 6:56 pm

  Tags: 2008 Campaign, Democratic Party, Fundraising, Hillary Clinton, Norman Hsu, Abc News, Associated Press, Cbs News, Cnn, Msnbc, New York Times, Government Amp Amp Press, Journalistic Issues

  Democratic fundraiser Norman Hsu, whose many large contributions to Democratic coffers, including Hillary Clinton came from an apparently non-existent source, has jumped bail yet again. As reported by the Associated Press, Hsu, a Hong Kong native, was also supposed to turn over his passport Wednesday. Hsu's prominent Silicon Valley criminal

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• 'Today' Devotes An Entire Half-Hour to Team Billary

  Published: September 5, 2007, 3:54 pm

  Tags: Campaign 2008, Campaign Finance Reform, Fundraising, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Larry Craig, Matt Lauer, Norman Hsu, Nbc, Today

  about Bill's or Hillary's fundraising scandals, asked about Republican Larry Craig's sex scandal, but didn't mention Bill's own personal indiscretions and even let Clinton rant about the GOP's "Swift boat tactics" against Hillary. After NBC's Andrea Mitchell finished her glowing set-up piece, Lauer pressed Clinton from the left

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• Media Still Not Interested In Hsu Money

  Published: September 7, 2007, 12:17 pm

  Tags: Campaign 2008, Campaign Finance, Democratic Fundraising, Norman Hsu, Associated Press, Wall Street Journal, Government Amp Amp Press, Journalistic Issues

  Fugitive Democratic Party donor Norman Hsu was arrested today in Colorado, according to the Associated Press. However, while discussing the fact that many of the politicians to whom Hsu gave money are returning it or giving it to charity, the AP seems strangely reluctant to discuss the mysterious sources of Hsu's contributions. The story talks

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• FEC Evasion and the Regulation of Political Committees

  Published: September 7, 2007, 10:02 pm

  Tags: 1st Amendment, Fundraising, News, Politics As Usual

  The Federal Election Commission has recently ruled on the complaint filed against Kos Media (of DailyKos.com fame) that alleged it was running a political committee and did not file the required disclosures. The case was MUR 5928 and the documents are available via the Commission's Enforcement Query System (put 5928 in the case field). The

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• Suspicious Asians Dept.: 'Post' Warns of Clinton Chinese Menace

  Published: September 11, 2007, 11:59 am

  Tags: Bill Clinton, Fundraising, Hillary Clinton, History, Race, Rnc, Scandal, Suspicious Asians Dept, Washington Post

  A couple weeks ago we mocked the RNC research department for trying to tie Hillary Clinton’s felon donor story to the various trumped-up Clinton fundraising scandals of the mid-’90s. The...

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• Suspicious Asians Dept.: 'Post' Warns of Clinton Chinese Menace

  Published: September 11, 2007, 11:59 am

  Tags: Bill Clinton, Fundraising, Hillary Clinton, History, Race, Rnc, Scandal, Suspicious Asians Dept, Washington Post

  “The case evokes the fundraising scandals born out of Bill Clinton’s reelection in 1996….” The Clinton fundraising thing didn’t really go anywhere of course because they gave back all the money, nothing illegal was ever really found, and the whole thing was investigated in the Senate by Hollywood Freddie

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• Bynum loves husband but needs to move on

  Published: September 10, 2007, 5:43 pm

  Tags: Thomas Weeks, Marital Troubles, Black Televangelists, Assault Indictment, Juanita Bynum, The Black Church, Divorce, Fundraising, Oprah Winfrey, Obama For President, Domestic Violence

  Hat Tip: D. Aileen Dodd, Atlanta Journal Constitution Evangelist Juanita Bynum’s lawyer said Monday the pastor is seeking to divorce her husband on the basis of cruel treatment and irreconcilable differences. The divorce filing states that the marriage has been “irretrievably broken,” said Bynum’s attorney Karla Walker of

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• Oprah Obama Fundraiser update

  Published: September 9, 2007, 11:50 pm

  Tags: Michelle Obama, Obama For President, Forest Whitaker, Black Endorsements, Racial Diversity, Black Hollywood, California Politics, 2008, Fundraising, Barack Obama, Oprah Winfrey, Politics

  Hat Tip: Lynn Sweet Blog, Chicago Sun Times MONTECITO, CALIF. Oprah Winfrey opened the high iron gates of her highly guarded estate here Saturday to raise more than $3 million for White House hopeful Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.), his biggest single-day haul ever, in a fund-raising spectacle rarely seen in U.S. politics. I haven't been

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