Top Texas Democrat Seeks Party's Funds
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The Texas Democratic Party chairman wants financial donors in the state to stop sending money to the national party because he says officials there are treating it as a Republican state where Democrats can't win.
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AUSTIN, Sept. 21 -- Three top political aides to House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) were indicted Tuesday on charges of illegally raising political funds from corporations in 2002, much of which was funneled into the Republican takeover of the Texas legislature.
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One of the Senate's most prolific campaign fund-raisers is turning his attention to collecting millions for the Republican Party's 2006 election efforts.
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Campaign contributors to the 2008 presidential candidates heavily favored Democrats in the three-month period that ended Saturday, giving three dollars to the party's leading contenders for every two dollars they gave to the top Republican candidates.
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Barbra Streisand likes what she sees in the Democratic race for the presidency, so much so that she's giving money to three candidates.
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Democratic presidential candidate Tom Vilsack raised more than $1.1 million in the last seven weeks of 2006, a total that puts him far behind deep-pocketed rivals for the nomination.
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Members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus are pumping money into Jenny OropezaÃ¢ÂÂs campaign, hoping that the Latina California state senator can eke out a win in the special election June 26 to replace the late Rep. Juanita Millender-McDonald.
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Several thousand political contributors have donated to two or more presidential candidates this year, an overlap in giving that tilts decidedly to the Democrats.
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California Democrat Bob Klein, with a diabetic son, is using his fortune and connections to push for state research funding.
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A former Minnesota congressman is being questioned for accepting &#36;12,500 in donations and spending more than &#36;60,000 on campaign expenses in the two years after he was ousted from office.
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Molly Beth Malcolm, the former head of the Texas Democratic Party, said Wednesday she is weighing whether to enter the race for chairman of the Democratic National Committee.
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The Senate Democrats' fund-raising committee, trying to regain a Senate majority, led its Republican counterpart in contributions last month but has far less in the bank as the election approaches.
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One of the house parties sponsored by the Republican candidate uses the Sept. 11 date for fund-raising.
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The Republican committee working to retain GOP control of the House has $36 million in the bank going into the final stretch of the congressional campaign.
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A prominent Republican who chairs I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby's legal defense fund co-hosted a fundraiser Wednesday for Sen. Joe Lieberman, who is running for re-election as an independent after losing the Democratic primary.
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A Texas justice who fended off judicial admonishment over his support for former U.S. Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers wants the state to cover his $340,000 legal tab.
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A Democrat whose organization spent about &#36;6 million to get out the Hispanic vote for Sen. John Kerry criticized the campaign's effort on Tuesday and warned that Democrats risk becoming a permanent minority if they don't do a better job.