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Nation
Sunday, July 6,2003
Bush nets record returns with businesslike approach to hind raising
By SHARON THE1MER
The Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — First comes the
advance work by White House political
adviser Karl Rove, followed by several
phone calls and letters from big-time
money-raisers known as “pioneers."
Then, finally, is the visit- from
President Bush, who brings along his
folksy humor but often leaves before
dinner is done.
Ceorge W. Bush’s recipe for record
fund raising has been honed to preci-
sion since his first campaign for Texas
governor in 1994, when he raised $16
million.
Now, he is on the way to taking in a
predicted $200 million or more for
next year’s presidential primaries, even
without a GOP opponent.
The businesslike Bush relishes the
cheers and applause of donors. At a
$3.5 million fund-raising dinner in Los
Angeles late last month, the president
thanked the crowd repeatedly for its
standing ovation, but also flashed an
"all right -already" determination to get
on with his speech. After 20 minutes of
talking, there were 10 minutes of hand-
shakes. Then it was out the door and to
Air f orce One.
Bush’s style has changed since his
days as governor, but it still smacks of
a "kind of a laid-back Texas style,” sort
of that of a “good oT boy," said
William Bokovoy, a Houston real-
estate investor who helped raise money
for Bush’s first gubernatorial campaign
and is now a presidential donor.
Associated Press photo/Charles Dharapak
PRESIDENT BUSH, left, is applauded by campaign contributors and supporters as
he is introduced by Brad Freeman, right, California campaign finance chairman at a
Bush/Cheney 2004 fund-raising dinner in Los Angeles, Calif., on June 27. Bush’s
recipe for record fund raising has been honed to precision since his first campaign
for Texas governor in 1994. /
"1 think lie speaks a lot better now.
His syntax has certainly improved,”
Bokovoy said. "He certainly has
acquired a statesman's presence.”
For many donors, substance is more
important than style, Bokovoy said.
"They look at his policies more than
they do whether the man has a
Hollywood personality,” he said.
The groundwork for a Bush fund-
raiser is laid weeks ahead of time.
Rove often goes into a target state in
advance to rally the lead organizers.
Much of the money is raised by Bush’s
“pioneers,” volunteer businessmen
who collect at least $100,000.
This election, Bush created a new
class of fund-raisers called rangers,
who solicit at least $200,000 each. At
least a half-dozen people have raised
enough since Bush began his campaign
in mid-May to earn the new designa-
tion, a Republican official said.
The volunteer fund-raisers spend
days and sometimes weeks working
their lists of prospective donors before
an event.
Glen Holden, a former U.S. ambas-
«.
sador, said he started raising money for
Bush's Los Angeles fund-raiser three
weeks before ancLhad raised $144,000
for the $2,000-per-ticket dinner.
“I just have a long, long list, and I
first send them out a letter, and then I
get on the telephone and start calling
them,” Holden said. In the letter, “I tell
them that I think our president is doing
a wonderful job and so many people
agree with the way I feel, and this is the
kickoff for his campaign, and I think
all of us should show we’re behind him
in the very beginning, and this is a
good time to start.”
Holden first raised money for
Republicans 40 years ago as finance
chairman for the Oregon GOP. After
moving to California, he raised money
for the campaigns of Ronald Reagan
and Bush’s father, the 41st president.
Such longtime Republican fund-
raisers are the backbone of Bush’s net-
work. Many are family friends or
associates.
The fund-raising deal is closed when
Bush arrives for an event. But unlike
his famously gregarious predecessor,
Democrat Bill Clinton, Bush does not
spend hours working a room. Instead
he usually sticks to a schedule.
Those who raise enough in political
donations typically are invited to have
their photos taken with the president at
small receptions before the fund-rais-
ers. Most donors — those who simply
give $2,000 to attend the fund-raiser —
do not get near him unless they are
seated closely enough to the podium to
be in range when Bush shakes hands.
Funding finesse
George W. Bush's fund-raising
skills have been perfected since
his first campaign for Texas
governor in 1994. Now he is
fund-raising for a predicted $200
million for the 2004 primaries.
Fund-raising estimates for
presidential hopefuls
January 1-June 30,2003
REPUBLICANS
George W. Bush In millions
DEMOCRATS
Sen. John Edwards
Sen. John Kerry
Gov. Howard Dean
Rep. Dick Gephardt
Sen. Joe Lieberman
HM»
Sen. Bob Graham
■ $3-1
Carol Moseley Braun
| $222,450
Rep. Dennis Kucinich*
| $173,080
Al Sharpton*
{$114,456
* No second-quarter estimate
Note: Figures are according to campaign
officials. Actual totals will be released July
15 in campaign finance reports due with
Federal Election Commission
SOURCE: Associated Press
Resurgent wildfire in southern Arizona
mountains threatens more homes
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) - A
windblown wildfire that
already has destroyed more
than 300 mountaintop homes
pushed into a previously
untouched subdivision, burn-
ing five cabins and threatening
60 others, a fire official said
Saturday.
The losses occurred during
the night in Willow Canyon,
one of three areas in the Santa
Catalina Mountains threatened
by the 2 1/2-week-old fire that
already had blackened 68,000
acres.
Firefighters set backfires
and cleared brush Saturday to
defend homes in other areas, an
observatory owned by the
University of Arizona and an
array of communication towers
used by television stations and
the Federal Aviation
Administration.
Pruett Small, The operations
section chief for the team fight-
ing the fire, said the fire would
continue to threaten Willow
Canyon from other directions
over the next day or two.
Willow Canyon is a collection
of older cabins on U.S Forest
Service land.
The human-caused fire
began on June 17 and
destroyed 317 homes last
month in and around the vaca-
tion hamlet of Summerhaven
on Mount Lemmon. It was
about 55 percent contained.
George Dyer and his wife,
Henrietta Terrazas, bought a
cabin in Willow Canyon in
1991. They didn’t believe their
cabin burned, but weren’t sur-
prised by this summer’s fire.
“We thought it was
inevitable,” George Dyer said.
“That thing is a tinder box up
there.”
, Associated Press photo/Stephen Morton
MISTY VALENTIN, left, paints the finishing touch on her son Grant’s face while her daughter Lauren, cen-
ter, watches on Saturday before her husband, Lt. Col. Manuel Valentin, returns home to Ft. Stewart, Ga.,
from Iraq. This is the largest number of troops to return to Ft. Stewart since the division began redeploy-
ment of 16,500 troops from Iraq.
Families gather to welcome 3rd Infantry
By RUSS BYNUM
The Associated Press
FORT STEWART, Ga. -
Family members gathered
Saturday night to welcome
home 600 soldiers returning
from Iraq, toting banners and
American flags as they waited.
The soldiers? Spouses and
children gathered early at the
Fort Stewart practice field,
where the troops were sched-
uled to arrive by bus.
"He wasn’t due back until
August ... so we’re very ecstat-
ic;" said Misty Valentin, who
helped her two small children
decorate signs for their father,
Lt. Col. Manuel Valentin, and
then painted red and white
stripes on the face of her 3-year-
old son, Grant.
She also decked out their
home in celebration of her hus-
band’s return after five months
overseas, putting up balloons
and replanting her flower bed
with red, white and blue flowers.
The first plane of 279 troops
landed just after 7 p.m. Saturday
at Hunter Army Airfield in
Savannah, with a second flight
to follow a few hours later. The
soldiers were to board buses for
the short trip to Fort Stewart.
About 300 more soldiers were
to arrive Sunday afternoon,
making this the largest home-
coming at Fort Stewart since the
3rd Infantry began deploying
16,500 soldiers to the Persian
Gulf last year.
Most of the arriving soldiers
belong to the 24th Corps
Support Group, which supplies
front-line soldiers with fuel,
water and other provisions
needed in the field.
Since President Bush
declared an end to major com-
bat in Iraq on May 1, families of
3rd Infantry soldiers have anx-
iously awaited word of when
they would come home.
But the Pentagon tapped the
3rd Infantry, which specializes
in desert fighting, for new mis-
sions in late May. Most of the
soldiers are aiding with peace-
keeping and fighting resistance.
Tiffany Fontenot had expect-
ed her husband, Pfc. Michael
Fontenot, to be home last
month. Though she awaited him
Saturday, Fontenot said she'd
remain skeptical until she saw
him.
“Right now, 1 don't see any-
thing, so I’m not believing this
either," Fontenot said before the
soldiers arrived.
Maj. Gen. Buford C. Blount
III, commander of the 3rd
Infantry, has said he expects the
majority of his troops to return
by September.
Parte service investigating museum ceremony mishap
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The National Park Service is investigating what went wrong at the
opening of the National Constitution Center, where a large wood and steel frame tipped over,
injuring several people.
The apparent accident on Friday was being investigated to exclude the chance that sabotage or
vandalism were to blame, officials said. The park service and museum said they would wqrk
together on the investigation.
The museum s opening ceremony was to have ended when people on stage pulled on ribbons
attached to a frame. A screen was supposed to drop, revealing a piece of artwork and officially
opening tlie museum. Instead, the frame came crashing down.
Forty-two people were on the stage, and a U.S. senator and a federal judge suffered minor
Injuries. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor narrowly missed being hit.
"We had a great celebration, it was perfect right up until about the last 10 seconds,” Mayor John
Street said Saturday on NBC’s "Today" show.
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