Title
Short of Funds, G.O.P. Recruits the Rich to Run
Link
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/26/us...26recruit.html
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Excerpt
November 26, 2007
By RAYMOND HERNANDEZ
WASHINGTON, Nov. 25 — Confronting an enormous fund-raising gap with Democrats, Republican Party officials are aggressively recruiting wealthy candidates who can spend large sums of their own money to finance their Congressional races, party officials say.
At this point, strategists for the National Republican Congressional Committee have enlisted wealthy candidates to run in at least a dozen competitive Congressional districts nationwide, particularly those where Democrats are finishing their first term and are thus considered most vulnerable. They say more are on the way.
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Comment:
The party of the rich, well-to-do and corporate America, short on cash? How on earth could this have happened?