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DAILY 05-16-04 MD M1 A1 CMYK Smarty Jones Wins Preakness, Closes In on Triple Crown SPORTS, Page E1 Weather Today: Thunderstorm. High 79. Low 62. Monday: Thunderstorm. Inside: Book World, TV Week, High 78. Low 64. The Post Magazine, Comics ABCDE Today’s Contents on Page A2 Details, Page C14 $1.50 Prices may vary in areas outside metropolitan 127th Year No. 163 M1 DC MD VA K Sunday, May 16, 2004 M1 M2 M3 M4 V1 V2 V3 V4 Washington. (See box on Page A4) D.C. Region THE BUSH MONEY MACHINE Fundraising’s Rewards Job Market Pioneers Fill War Chest, Then Capitalize Has Look First of two articles skeet with Cheney, played golf with pros Ben money in electing a president. Their way to do it Crenshaw and Fuzzy Zoeller and laughed at the was to create a network of people who could get By Thomas B. Edsall, Sarah Cohen jokes of comedian Dennis Miller are the heart of at least 100 friends, associates or employees to Of a Boom and James V. Grimaldi the most successful political money operation in give the maximum individual donation allowed Washington Post Staff Writers the nation’s history. Since 1998, Bush has raised by law to a presidential candidate: $1,000. a record $296.3 million in campaign funds, giv- The Pioneers have evolved from an initial Government Policy, GREENSBORO, Ga.—Joined by President ing him an overwhelming advantage in running group of family, friends and associates willing to Bush, Vice President Cheney and a host of celeb- against Vice President Al Gore and now Sen. bet on putting another Bush in the White House Spending Give Boost rities, hundreds of wealthy Republicans gath- John F. Kerry (D-Mass.). At least a third of the into an extraordinarily organized and disci- ered at the Ritz-Carlton Lodge here in the first total—many sources believe more than half— plined machine. It is now twice as big as it was in By Neil Irwin weekend in April, not for a fundraiser but for a was raised by 631 people. 2000 and fueled by the desire of corporate CE- Washington Post Staff Writer celebration of fundraisers. It was billed as an When four longtime supporters of George W. Os, Wall Street financial leaders, Washington “appreciation weekend,” and there was much to Bush in 1998 developed a name and a structure lobbyists and Republican officials to outdo each To find enough new workers for all its appreciate. for the elite cadre that the then-Texas governor other in demonstrating their support for Bush building projects, Bozzuto Construction K A look at Bush’s As Bush “Pioneers” who had raised at least would rely on in his campaign for president, the and his administration’s pro-business policies. Co. had to hire a headhunter. Consulting $100,000 each for the president’s reelection goal was simple. They wanted to escape the re- “This is the most impressive, organized, firm Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. is wooing political network. campaign, or “Rangers” who had raised straints of the public financing system that Con- MBA students with fancy dinners and Page A17 $200,000 each, the men and women who shot gress had hoped would mitigate the influence of See PIONEERS, A15, Col. 1 cocktail parties. Pohanka Automotive Group created a new position just to fill all the other vacant jobs. After three years of standing still, the Washington region’s job market is hop- ping, adding 60,600 jobs in the year end- Divided ed in March, on pace with the boom At Andrews, the Good Times Fly By years of 1997 and 1998. “This year ev- eryone is starting to feel good again,” said Ralph W. Shrader, chief executive Iraqi South of Booz Allen, which has been on a hir- ing binge. What is different this time is the Posing New source of the new jobs. Instead of a roar- ing expansion driven by businesses, 4 out of 5 local jobs being created can be attributed to extremely low interest Obstacles rates, created by government stimulus, and booming government spending. The Federal Reserve Board lowered Shiite Foes of Militia the federal funds rate to 1 percent last June, its lowest level since 1958, a key Fail to Stem Uprising factor last year in booming sales of houses and autos in the Washington By Scott Wilson area. Washington Post Foreign Service Federal spending in the region rose by 7 percent in 2003, pumping an extra BAGHDAD, May 15—The battle for $6.1 billion into the local economy, driv- Iraq’s Shiite-populated south that en- ing hiring by government contractors gaged U.S. forces again Saturday is pre- while a tax cut put more money in the senting U.S. officials with a more serious hands of local consumers. political challenge than the insurgency’s Business and professional services still potent strongholds farther north, firms, a sector that is dominated in the U.S. officials and Iraqi political leaders Washington area by federal contractors, say. In heavy fighting over the past week, See ECONOMY, A8, Col. 1 U.S. forces have inflicted substantial cas- ualties on the Shiite Muslim militia loyal to Moqtada Sadr, a breakaway cleric wanted by U.S. forces on murder charg- es. U.S. and British troops battled Sadr’s forces Saturday in four southern cities, Pennsylvania including new fighting in Amarah near the Iranian border. Firefights between U.S. forces and insurgents in the east Pollution Baghdad slum named for Sadr’s assassi- nated father left 14 insurgents and two U.S. soldiers dead overnight Friday. Muddies The fighting reflects the U.S. strategy of squeezing Sadr militarily while al- lowing a group of local Shiite leaders to broker a deal, much as Sunni Muslim Bay Cleanup leaders did this month in the western PHOTOS BY RICH LIPSKI—THE WASHINGTON POST city of Fallujah. The Americans contend Two F/A-18s of the Navy’s Blue Angels fly by—one inverted—at the air show at Andrews Air Force Base. Watching the Canadian Snowbirds that Sadr is deeply unpopular among State Lags in Curbing perform are Kenneth Anderson, his wife, Judith, and their godchildren Omari Singleterry, 4, and Kymesha Cheeks, 6. Story, Page C1. many Shiites in the holy cities of Najaf Runoff From Farms and Karbala, where his men are ruining See IRAQ, A27, Col. 1 By David A. Fahrenthold Washington Post Staff Writer Massachusetts Clergy Are Divided MANOR TOWNSHIP, Pa.—The sail- Knowledge of boat harbors and crabbing grounds of the On Eve of Historic Same-Sex Unions Chesapeake Bay are miles from this shal- low stream that runs through fields reek- By Alan Cooperman hauled before an ecclesiastical court and lose Abusive Tactics ing of manure. Washington Post Staff Writer her ordination as an Episcopal priest. But the problems of the west branch of “Frankly, I find Cathy’s ministry so important Little Conestoga Creek in Lancaster LINCOLN, Mass., May 15—If there are no that I would not want to jeopardize it,” Tetreault May Go Higher County become the bay’s problems, soon- last-minute legal hitches and Massachusetts on said. er or later. Monday becomes the first state to allow same- Six months after its Supreme Judicial Court By R. Jeffrey Smith The animal waste that washes into the sex marriages, Lois Tetreault and Lois Johnson ruled that the state constitution guarantees the Washington Post Staff Writer water here contains pollutants that even- would like the pastor of the church they have at- right to marry the partner of one’s choice, Mas- tually are carried into the Susquehanna tended for more than a decade to perform their sachusetts is poised to put that historic decision Army intelligence officers suspected River and then into the bay, where they wedding later this year. into action by granting civil marriage licenses to BY ELISE AMENDOLA—ASSOCIATED PRESS that a Syrian and admitted jihadist who feed blooms of harmful algae. But they have not asked the Rev. Cathy gay couples. Legally, the ruling does not bind re- The Rev. William G. Sinkford is was detained at Abu Ghraib prison out- “It’s all based on a very sophisticated George of St. Anne’s in-the-Fields here, to offici- ligious institutions in any way. Churches, syna- president of the Unitarian side Baghdad knew about the illegal flow scientific principle: Water runs downhill,” ate, because they think she would have a hard Universalist Association, which of money, arms and foreign fighters into said William C. Baker, president of the time saying no. If she said yes, she could be See WEDDINGS, A12, Col. 1 has welcomed gay couples. Iraq. But he was smug, the officers said, Chesapeake Bay Foundation. “The Chesa- and refused to talk. So last November, peake Bay is downhill from Pennsylva- they devised a special plan for his in- nia.” terrogation, going beyond what Army The Keystone State does not have an rules normally allowed. inch of Chesapeake waterfront. But it is a INSIDE An Army colonel in charge of in- major source of the bay’s pollution, be- telligence-gathering at the prison, spell- cause Pennsylvania includes so much of Rescuing the Struggling to ing out the plan in a classified cable to the the watershed for the Susquehanna, a top U.S. military officer in Iraq, said in- massive river that provides half the bay’s Past Save the Children terrogators would use a method known fresh water. After centuries of neglect As children continue to die as “fear up harsh,” which military docu- A partner in the bay cleanup effort and years of hassles, at the hands of violence in ments said meant “significantly increas- since 1983, Pennsylvania dumps more ni- Maryland’s rich African D.C., sadness and anger ing the fear level in a security detainee.” trogen and phosphorus into the bay than American history is about remain.

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