{"id":1684,"date":"2003-11-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-11-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"bush-campaign-fund-raising-team-grows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/11\/2003\/bush-campaign-fund-raising-team-grows.html","title":{"rendered":"Bush Campaign Fund-Raising Team Grows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (AP) &#8211; President Bush&#8217;s list of volunteer campaign fund-raisers is getting bigger: More than 300 people have raised $100,000 or more for the Republican since he began his re-electioncampaign in May.<\/p>\n<p>  At least 106 people have raised the $200,000 and up it takes to become a Bush &#8220;ranger,&#8221; a new fund-raising group the campaign started this year.<\/p>\n<p>  An additional 203 have solicited the $100,000 needed to be a Bush &#8220;pioneer.&#8221; That&#8217;s roughly the same number of pioneers Bush had in his 2000 primary campaign, when he raised a record $106 million.<\/p>\n<p>  Bush is already at or beyond his 2000 record for next year&#8217;s primaries.<\/p>\n<p>  New Bush pioneers include Christie Whitman, the first Environmental Protection Agency administrator in Bush&#8217;s administration.<\/p>\n<p>  Among the others are William McGuire, chief executive of United Health Care Group; Warren Staley, CEO of the Cargill agribusiness company; Republican lobbyists Charles and Judy Black; and Paul  Singer, manager of Elliott Capital Advisers, a multibillion-dollar hedge fund group, a review released Friday by the government watchdog group Public Citizen found.<\/p>\n<p>  The new rangers include Thomas Nassif, president of the Western Growers Association and part of incoming California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger&#8217;s transition team; James Brulte, the Republican leader  of the California state Senate; and Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala., chairman of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (AP) &#8211; President Bush&#8217;s list of volunteer campaign fund-raisers is getting bigger: More than 300 people have raised $100,000 or more for the Republican since he began his re-electioncampaign in May. At least 106 people have raised the $200,000 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hedgeco-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}