Rome, Georgia 301 6 1 706-290-4499 706-232-3753 [email protected]
January 7,2004
Ofice of the General Counsel Federal Elections Commission 999 E Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20463
Re: Complaint Against Bush-Cheney ’04, Eric Tanenblatt, and Ofice of the Governor of the State of Georgia
To whom it may concern:
My name is George Anderson. I am an ethics activist in the State of Georgia. My address is 18 Twickenham Road, Rome, Georgia 30161. I seek immediate FEC investigation and enforcement action against Bush-Cheney ’04,Inc., Eric Tanenblatt, and Office of the Governor of the State of Georgia for violation of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1972 (“FECA”), as amended, 2 U.S.C.$0 431 et seq. (1997 and Supp. 1999). Bush-Cheney ’04, Inc., registered with the Federal Election Commission on May 16,2003, as the principal campaign committee of George Bush and Richard Cheney for ‘ federal office in the 2004 elections. Eric Tanenblatt was at the time of the activities described below an employee of the Office of the Governor of the State of Georgia. Bush-Cheney ’04 filings with the FEC list Tanenblatt as having made the maximum personal contributions allowed by law. Bush-Cheney ’04 hheracknowledges on its campaign website that Tanenblatt is responsible for raising more than $200,000 in additional campaign contributions. (www. eeorgewbush com/DonorslRanpers.aspx#rangers). The Office of the Governor of the State of Georgia violated the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1972 (“FECA”) when its employee, Eric Tanenblatt, used equipment and space in the Office of the Governor to make bdraising-related telephone calls on behalf of Bush-Cheney ’04 as well as doing so while behg paid a salary by the Ofice of the Governor. I discovered these activities though requests under Georgia’s Open Records Law which allowed me to review telephone billing records for the Governor’s Office and email messages on the network serving the Governor’s Oflfice. I brought these facts to the attention of various people in the Governor’s Ofice. After disclosing the results of my inves$igation, Tanenblatt reimbursed the State of ’ .Georgia for some, but not all, of the costs of these calls. Tanenblatt only reimbursed the State for calls that I brought to the State’s attention. The State was not reimbursed for salary paid to Tanenblatt while he was in the office making these calls. 1 k I I I
If the calls outlined in the attached documents were sanctioned by the Governor’s \ Office, then the costs incurred by the Office of the Governor are an in-kind contribution by the State of Georgia that has never been reported by Bush-Cheney ’04. If the calls were personal calls made by Tanenblatt on behalf of Bush-Cheney ’04 then they should have been disclosed as such by Bush-Cheney ’04 and the value of the calls should be added to contributions made by Tanenblatt. Payment of fundraising costs by a contributor constitutes a contribution itself. See, Advisory Opinion 1979-39; Advisory Opinion 1975- 62. Billing records for calls on state telephone lines assigned to Tanenblatt show that most of the calls were made during normal business hours. It is apparent that the employer meant for these activities to be part of Tanenblatt’s employment as the employer had established a rule forbidding political activity during business hours. By Executive Order signed on January 13,2003, Governor Perdue clearly stated, “Employees are permitted to express their opinions on political subjects and candidates and to take an active part in political campaigns outside of working hou rs....” Exec. Order 01.13.03.01 (Emphasis added.) Activities by Tanenblatt, then the Governor’s Chief of SW,making political phone calls within outside of working hours shows that those activities were clearly meant to be political contributions by the Ofice of the Governor. Tanenblatt, at that time a salaried employee of the Governor’s Office, was expected to work a particular number of hours per pay period. Paying the salary of an employee engaged in a political activity constitutes a political contribution by the employer, in this case, the Ofice of the Governor, under FECA (2 USC §431(8)) and Commission regulations (1 1 CFR $100.54) Commission regulations state that an employee paid on a salaried basis and expected to work a particular number of hours per 1 period may engage in political activity during regular work hours without it being deemed a political contribution by the employer if the employee makes up the time to the employer within a reasonable time. (1 1 CFR 100.54(a). Tanenblatt’s phone logs and his calendar do not record which hours were worked for the employer and which were worked for BusbCheney ’04 on his own time. Indeed, the work was indistinguishable as evidenced by the lack of records regarding hours worked, the use of state telephone equipment for both activities, the reimbursement of some costs only after getting caught, and the fiilure to account to the employer for time worked on Bush-Cheney ’04‘ activities. The f’rrct that the Office of the Governor had no policies in place requiring employees in political positions to maintain records of their work for the State and political work done on their own time, albeit using state offices and telephones, shows that political activity was part of the job for senior staff such as Tanenblatt. When performing that job aids hdraising for a candidate for federal elective ofice, the payment of salary constitutes a campaign contribution which must be reported by the recipient . 822 long distance telephone calls were made on two telephone numbers assigned to Tanenblatt between Januw 13 and July 3 1,2003. Bush-Cheney Campaign ’04 held a hdraiser on June 24 at Reynolds Plantation in Greensboro; Georgia. Several of these telephone calls were directly to the site of the hdraiser or were to people and firms involved in organizing the fker.Of the 822 calls, it appears that 347 are not related to state business. 28% of the calls were to the Washington behyregion - including the s h
L, ---.~ White House, lobbyists, law firms,and public relations firms. A hgenumber of the calls -f-- during this time were to people identified by Bush-Cheney '04 as raising more than $200,000 in campaign contributions. Specifically, the telephone records obtained fiom the Ofice of the Governor show that Eric Tanenblatt placed calls wing State equipment to: 0 The White House Office of Political AfEairS (37 calls); 0 Ron McDufie with Bush-Cheney '04; 0 Haley Barbour, then Governor-elect of Mississippi and President of Barbour Grifith & Rogers (identified as Bush-Cheney hdraisers); 0 The Bonnar Group, a national findraising company in Washington DC; 0 Bo Callaway, former Chairman of the Georgia Republican Party; 0 Alan Novak of Novak Strategic Advisors and a Bush-Cheney hdraiser; 0 Andrew Entwistle of Entwistle & Cappucci, a Republican hndraising firm; 0 Congressman Eric Cantor (R-VA) at his campaign number; 0 The Dutko Group, a Washington lobbying firrn (two members of the fm are identified by Bush-Cheney as hdraisers); 0 Paul Bennecke, Political Director for the Georgia Republican Party; 0 David Swords at McKenna, Long & Aldridge; 0 Carl Collins of Public-Private Partnership; 0 Jonathan Baron of Red Sea Campaign Consulting Company 0 Steven Goldsmith, a Bush-Cheney '04 hdraiser; 0 Log Cabin Republicans, a Republican Political Action Group; 0 Thurman Enterprises, a lobbying firm; 0 Bill Dudley, government relations with AFLAC; 0 Christina Estrada of Gordon C. James public relation group; 0 Fred Cooper, a Bush-Cheney '04 hndraiser; 0 Jaime Reynolds, a Bush-Cheney '04 fhdraiser; 0 Calder Clay for Congress, campaign headquarters; 0 Benedetti & Farris, event planners (planned the June 24,2003 Bush- Cheney fundraiser); 0 Steven Freund, Ritz-Carlton in Greensboro GA (site of the June 24, 2003 Bush-Cheney hndraiser); Rob Lever, Washington DC lobbyist; William Timkin, a Bush-Cheney '04 fundraiser; Ken Norman, Bush-Cheney Campaign '04; Hollis "Chip" The Felkel, Fekel Group (political relations fm running the June 24,2003 Bush-Cheney fundraiser); 0 Ed Brookover, 11, Greener & Hook; 0 Mercer Reynolds, Bush-Cheney '04 fbndraiser and finance chair for Bus h-Cheney ; 0 David Winstead, Bush-Cheney '04 campaign advisor; c t
0 Bob Young, former deiegate to Republican National Convention and Bush-Cheney elector; 0 Alec Poitevant, state Republican chair and Bush-Cheney ’04 hdraiser ; 0 Ode11 & Simms, direct marketers for Republican National Committee.
A “contribution” under FECA includes not only “anything of value made by any person for the purpose of influencing any election for Federal office,” 2 USC 943 1(8)(A)(i), but also “the payment by any person of compensation for the personal services of another person which are rendered to a political committee without charge for any purpose.” 2 USC 943 1(8)(A)(ii). Any payments deto Tanenblatt by the State of Georgia while he was using state equipment to perform fbnctions for Bush-Cheney ’04
constitutes a contribution. ’ FECA establishes dollar limits on contributions not to exceed “in the aggregate” $1,000. Any reimbursement by Tanenblatt for the use of state equipment in connection with the Bush-Cheney ’04 fundraising activities is an in-kind contribution attributable to Tanenblatt which would cause him to exceed the statutory limitation on contributions. Receipt of such contributions by Bush-Cheney ’04 violates 2 USC §441a(f). The Federal Election Commission is urged to immediately investigate these activities.
GEORGE ANDERSON
Comes now GEORGE ANDERSON, who under oath swears to this complaint, this
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Ralph Reed, who presided over the biggest GOP gains in Georgia history, said Thursday th. out as chairman of the state Republican Party.
"It's been one of the great experiences of my career," Reed said. "And it's been a lot more fi thought it would be."
Reed said he will shift his attention to President Bush's 2004 re-election bid.
GOP leaders say Reed's withdrawal allows Gov. Sonny Perdue to cement his control of the Republican Party.
The governor has already settled on a successor: Alec Poitevint of Bainbridge, who has pre as pmp chairmfn and was treasurer of Perdue's campaign. Poitevint confirmed Thursday can idate for c airman.
The governor was unavailable for comment on Reed's announcement. Monday, Perdue prai "leadership during these historic elections."
Reed, 41, was elected chairman in 2001 despite fears that his past as the head of the natior Coalition would tie the state party ever closer to the religious right. He argued that his experi roots politics was worth the risk.
Reed also brought the state party into close contact with White House, and with big-money ( The GOP's Presidents Day fund-raiser this week brought in nearly $1.2 million - nearly thre much as the year before.
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. _- - 5 -1 . - - - --& =..: - AT FIRST GlANCE,aifestory resembles the biographies of scores of other suburban Republicans in Congress. Born and raised in the South. he attended a private Christian high school. and earned his law degree before returning home to work in the family '-:' business. He began his polltical career in the state legislature fighting to protect tobacco companies and return budget surpluses to taxpayers.
An unflinching fiscal conservative. the Virginia Republicanis pro-ltfe, supports the Second Amendment. and backs voluntary prayer in school. He's even a Rotarian.
But there's a criical difference: (2-9. is @e onlv Jewish Republican serving in the House. And there's no denying that his faith and passionate stands in defense of Israel have played a major role in his rapid ascent over just two years in Washington.
Two months ago Majority whip Roy Blunt stunned colleagues by tapping Cantor to be his - chief deputy. the same post Dennis Hastert held before becoming Speaker four years ago
"He's worked hard around the country to try to build bridges and support among the Jewsh community and he did that very effectively." Blunt says. "As the only member of the House leadership-Republican or Democrat-who's Jewish. it gives him substantial credibility to help reach out in that direction."
-_%: - Cantor joins the Republican leadership at a time when the party is straining to translate its : - - -...- ardently pro-Israel message into votes and financial support from Jews. a group Democrats ._ have dominated at the ballot box for generations. - Republican insiders were quick to call his selecbon a stroke of genius. In his brief tenure in
Washington. Cantor has built a reputabon as a smooth political operator. a workhorse. and an -1, articulate. enersbc spokesman for the cause. He was barely installed in office before he began traveling the country, reaching out to such powerful nabonal Jewish groups as the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs.
Just weeks ago, he addressed a group of AIPAC activists in West Palm Beach, Florida, a bastion of Jewish Democrats. "It's no secret that the mainstream Jewish community in th~s - ~ count^^ is Democrat" Cantor said in an interview shortly after that trip. And members of the . ?.-: t z. -- .'. , -. r *-Is. ,- e-,.. - _,. . Jewish community "have a dfferent domestic agenda often than most conservative a_ - ;" -" - ..%%. t, .-, ' a. Republicans do. But I think when it comes to Israel. all that gets set aside." .I .
I. 4 r-- His message is music to Republican leaders' ears House Majonty Leader Tom DeLay. an uncompromisingcritic of Yasser Arafat. says Cantor is the first person he turns to on quesbons involving Israel.
-1 Cantor's easy southern manner and ability to arbculate complex foreign policy matters Exhibit: A succinctly have also made him a regular on the national television talk circuit. On "Crossfire." he serves up pro-Israel sound bites opposite the likes of James Zogby of the Arab American The Chosen Republican - Page 2 of 4 f c- s I I
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Cantor says any foothold Republicans have gained in wooing the Jewish vote is largely due to George W. Bush. and argues that the president's strong support for Israel already has opened the door for Jews to flock to the Grand Old Party.
"9M 1. that awful. awful tragedy that occurred because of a terrorist attack was really the catalyst." he said. "The Jewish community in America reallzed that there is a common enemy out there. and it is not Republicans."
His efforts have not been lost on leaders of the Jewish polibcal community. Howard Kohr. the executive director of AIPAC. has called Cantor "a true leader when it comes to the Middle East." Matt Brooks. the chairman of the Republican Jewish Coalition. where Cantor is a board member. said the Virginia Republican is "uniquely capable of selling the Republican agenda to Jewish voters."
In his first year in Congress. he quickly won the support of influenQal Jewish GOP activists wrth deep pockets. including Fred Zeidman. a venture capitalist from Houston who Bush appointed chairman of the U.S Holocaust Museum.
"1 really liked him the first day I met him." Zeidrnan said of Cantor. "I wrote him a check."
As an adult Cantor has never been shy about voicing his support for Israel. even though the issue was a mild undercurrent in his first pnmary baffle against Virginia state senator Steve Martm. the son of a country preacher. He won by fewer than 300 votes
But grmng up in the good ol' boy South with a Baptist or Episcopal church on every other street corner. he learned to be reticent in his faith. Life as one of the only Jews in a high school dass of 100 could be awkward.
Cantor's family chose to send him to Collegiate. a prestigious. nondenominationalprivate school where there were daily chapel services. When his classmates bowed their heads to pray. he bowed too. but refrained from full participation in the prayers. His family stoked his faith by sending him to Hebrew school three times a week.
After earning his masters' in real estate at Columbia University in New York. where he met his wfe. Diana. he became more vocal and active.
The Cantors volunteer their time to the Richmond-area Jewish community. which he estimates to be 12.000 to 14.000 strong. but barely 2 percent of the old Confederate capital's overall population. Cantor is on the board of and helped secure state funding for the Virginia Holocaust Museum and over the years has participatedin the annual campaign to raise millions for the local Jewish Federation.
"I have come along in life to be a liie more open about [my faith]." Cantor said. "I was very private about it and never really talked about it."
Cantor also keeps kosher, a fact that makes it difficult to swing by a Capitol Hill recepbon for a quick bite. But he would rather go hungry than ask for special arrangements.
"I will just make do. . . to me religion is a very private thing." he said
Like so many Jewish immigrants to the United States, Cantor's grandparents on his father's side left Eastern Europe to make a home in New York City. His great unde was the first to relocate to Richmond for an opportunity to work in the restaurant fixture business. His grandfather followed. but died when Cantor's father was just two years old. His grandmother ran Cantor's Grocery and. for a time. she and her two sons lived above the store. I Cantor's father went to law school. eventually starting a business developing real estate and shopping centers. It was a comfortable existence. but Enc remembers the long hours his dad put in.
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"He always tdd me, the bottom line. the proof is in the pudding. just do the work" Cantor recalls.
This attitude. Cantor says. made his father a natural Republican and forms the foundahon of his own conservative philosophy. Later, when he had more free time. his father dedicated it to the Richmond Republican poliacal community. winning several local GOP offices. He was a key Virginia supporter for the 1984 Reagan-Bush campaign. and Eric was working precincts before he could vote.
Along the way. the Cantor family grew close to such prominent Virginia Republicans as Tom . Bliley, who served as mayor of Richmond and went on to become a prominent elder statesman in Congress. During college, Eric interned in Bliley's congressional office and served as his driver and. years later. as his campaign manager. The relationship would pay offdown the road. when Bliley's formidable resources and pdMcal machinery were widely credited with giving Cantor the edge in his razor-thin primary victory during his first campaign for Congress in 2000.
"He is one of those people who have the unusual and uncommon aklity to disagree wth people wthout becoming disagreeable." Bliley said.
Cantor's easy charm and commitment to the issues helped drive Jewish voters to the polls to vote for him. Now Republicans hope he can transfer that to the national stage. Although in the 2000 presidential election AI Gore took almost 80 percent of the Jewish vote. a recent poll shows that 37 percent approve of Bush's performance so far as president and 43 percent approve of the way Bush is handling Israel and the Middle East
It wll be a tough task but Cantor refuses to be daunted. ''The message of trying to be there to provide government services and the government's helping hand.... The Democrat party has always been a IitUe more effective in communicatingto the Jewish community.*' he said. "But I think it's a totally new day. though. I really do."
Susan J. Crabtree is a reporter at Roll Call. where she covers the House Republican leadership.
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While the federal government continues to stack up future debt for private citizens and businesses to eventually pay for, many say it's ludicrous for the City of Atlanta to even suggest that federal or state funds should help rebuild its sewers. Select State
In less dramatic fashion, the same thing is happening to cities and towns across Georgia and the nation as a whole. They are being asked to produce the wealth for others to use and then (maybe) be distributed back to them. That makes cities a wishbone that's being pulled in opposite directions. They produce wealth, but are made to beg to get some crumbs back.
As the General Assembly readies to convene in January, its leaders would be smart to keep in mind the engine that in large part keeps our state growing -- its municipalities. I, :,I 1 5
What fills state government coffers are tax pmceeds that come from the increasing number of hardworking and successful individuals who are attracted to or near Georgia's cities. But the infrastructure that helps facilitate this trend is threatened by a dearth of funds. Schools, public transportation, health care and law enforcement are among the services that build and maintain Georgia's source of revenue.
A public opinion poll conducted in Georgia last year shows that an overwhelming majority of Georgians see their home or .. -- nearby municipalities as the baseline of their lives: -.I. .. .I- -# - 82 percent said a clean, safe and active town located near - them was "very important" to their quality of life. 97 percent said it's important to maintain and improve basic services in their communities, including water/sewer, roads and the like. . 83 percent said the users of such services should help pay for them (including users who don't live in the towns, but shop and entertain in and pass through http //wnvw biilsiiipp c01ir/pre1i~ium/2003/dec/15/17 13624.shtnil m;b+ i 51llSbipp coni rage L 01 .>
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them). 72 percent said local elected officials are best suited to determine fees and taxes, and to manage government funds for the community. Only 20 percent said the Legislature is best suited for the task.
The challenge for state leaders is to deal with the budgetaw constraints that are facing state government, while at the same time finding creative ways to allow those who depend on cities to preserve and enhance the essential services the cities provide. Many citizens find cities important to their lives, even if they live close to, but not within, the actual city limits. If you go to town, you should help pay for it
... Look for one major Georgia corporation to virtually eliminate its governmental/public affairs department over the next few months. This at the same time that many other companies are starting to ramp up similar departments and government relations activities, all in order to take advantage of an increasingly favorable revenue and business climate.
Insiders note that such departmental eliminations and scale backs have been attempted by other major companies in the past, only to see the departments later restored and even enhanced. The company shall go nameless for now, and we'll report on the experiment's success down the road. ... The Essentials: A weekly working biography of a leading player in Georgia politics and government. This week, the man many consider to be the most powerful person in Georgia: Fred/
Cooper has been a major GOP power for many years. While a top executive at Flowers Industries, he served as chairman of the State Republican Party. He has also served as state chair or co- chair of virtually every Republican presidential campaign since the mid-1980s. Cooper is considered to be one of the most influential advisers to Gov. Sonny Perdue. For those unfamiliar with Cooper, who speaks softly but carries tremendous clout with Republicans, here are a few other interesting "essentials":
A lawyer by training -- but more recently the past owner of numerous highly successful companies he later sold -- Cooper is considered a brilliant businessman whose expertise in mergers, acquisitions and leveraged buyouts is second to none. Fred Cooper is widely considered to be the closest individual i Bumly.Former President Bush and his wife B cooper and his wife. Cooper heads the powerful "Loose Group," a collectio! of I Republican/conservative business lea pport like-minded candidates whb areTn major political races. - c - As one expert put it, 'In the new Republican Georgia, if you don't know Fred Cooper, you don't know much." -* For his part, Cooper keeps a low profile and generally avoids both notoriety and public accolades. But most any truthful Republican will admit that Cooper is, along # - BiiISlipp coin Page 3 of 3 ) ': '1 i -* with a handful of others, a powerful for e in the "New Georgla." % -\ - 1 - Matt Towery is chairman of InsiderAdvantage. Bill Shipp's Georgia is a wholly -i- - .. owned subsidiary of InsiderAdvantage.
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Name: James M. Reynolds, Political Contributions: Bush Gubernatorial Races. $0 I11 Republican Hard Money- $54,4SO Occupation: Owner. American Real Republican Soft Money: $0 Democratic Hard Money $0 -\ Deiiiocratic Soft Money. $0 Federal PAC Hard Money $0 Total Contributions: $54,450 Soft Money from Employer $0 to Republicans $0 er--- .-, --- -5 to Democrats $0 --1 Contributions to Bush's GO~Races $0 Reynolds is a developer of the Reynolds Plantation Golf Resort that covers 7,000 acres of woodlands overlooking Lske Occnee. The resort, wliicli is owned by Bush Pioneer ,IS clearing additional lakeside land to build niillion-dollar homes and a Ritz-Carlton Hotel The Plantation boasts of having raised $700,000 for Bush at a siiigle '99 fundraiser Gov Zell htiller appointed James Reynolds in '97 to the state Department of Natural Resources Board. Environmental groups said Zell' s appointments to this board lacked a denionstrated comiiitnient to environmental protection They cited the fact that just one of lis five nominees had a background in environmental protection, while two of theiii were developers. "You cannot have a board administering the cleaiiup of Georsia's waters and polluters when they are in the industries that are being regulated," said Consenration Society President Terry Hughey
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Main page #@sident Bush's $170 million man dihd-raiser hopes that event in Greensborois indicator of a record campaign. a.1 toc s Markets a~~~4gga I-ConsMution Hor iron -g-rVa. - The small, Rrin3cbtbd office Mercer Revnous 111 occupies at Bush-Cheney * ** ' 6 campaign headquarters offers no 33 - hint that he commands the biggest I Jobs presidential fund-raising drive in Homes history. Cars Classifids The modest digs, however, fit the mood of the softspoken Cincinnati investment banker as he confronts Entertainment the task of collecting a jawdropping Events $1 70 million for the re-election of his Music longtime friend, George W. Bush. Movies After hearing for the umpteenth time Restaurants that the Bush fund-raising machine Arts will easily rake in more than $200 Recreation million, Reynolds is eager to cool 4P Ph3tO F46L9 IJ4RTINF' ClOtltlJLI~ Personals down such expectations. Mercer Reynolds greets Presklent Bush durlng his anlval at Greene County krport in June. "So far it's OK. It's good enough," he said of the first few months' fund- raising events, direct mail, telemarketing and Internet donations. "The goal we have is ambitious to begin with. So I don't expect to exceed that goal."
Even so, the campaign is set to announce this week that it already has collected more than $80 million, putting the president well on the way to smashing the $100 million record his campaign set four years ago.
Reynolds also has the satisfaction of knowing that a major contributor to the successful start was a June fund-raiser at Reynolds Plantation, the posh golf community he helped develop 75 miles east of downtown Atlanta near Enter C Greensboro, on his grandfather's land, where he spent his boyhood summers hunting for catawba worms to use as fish bait in the local creeks.
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Bush landed at Greensboro's tiny airport, then traveled by motorcade through the Search 01 0 town and countryside. Thousands of supporters lined the roads, hoisting pro-Bush archive o signs and waving to the president, who stopped at least once to shake hands. back to 1' Make ajc.com your hornepage: At the resort, he addressed a casual but welldressed throng of 750 who paid at least $2,000 apiece to eat barbecue under a hwe tent outside the clubhouse, where bush gave a 26-minute speech touting his administration's achievements.
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final tally turned out to be $2.5 million.
When it comes to raising the rest, Jamie Reynolds voiced lile doubt about his cousin's ability: "He's always impressed me as someone who reaches the goal he sets."
Relationship began with oil
High finance is hardly new for Mercer Reynolds. 58, a prosperous businessman who was born in Chattanooga and moved to Ohio as a Coca-Cola Co. employee before becoming a private investor.
It was his investment in oil that led him to Bush. Early one morning more than 20 years ago, Reynolds was meeting with a geologist at a business club in Midland, Texas, when he was introduced to the future president, who had just finished his daily run.
Reynolds said he was struck by Bush's exuberance. "He loves life. He loves people," said the investor. "I picked that up right away."
They formed a friendship that would become crucial to Bush. In 1984, Reynolds and h& Cincinnati business partner, William DeWitt, bqught out Bush's struggling - J oTcompany-. Later, the two investors helped forge the deal that made Bush a co-owner of the Texas Rangers baseball team. L1 When Bush won election as Texas governor, Reynolds began to move into the world of politicaI fund-raising.
In Bush's 2000 campaign for president, Reynolds became a "Pioneer," the campaign's designation for supporters , 5 who pledged to raise at least $100,000 from friends and associates.
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- - After the election, Bush appointed Reynolds as ambassador to Switzerland, a post he held until last spring. He had grown homesick for his five grown children, he said, and returned home with his wife, Gabrielle.
When the president asked him to join the re-election campaign, he quickly agreed.
Reynolds was an ideal choice, said Fred Coo r, a former Republican Party chairman in Georaia. "He's been a successfu----pe businessman." CooDer sard. and he "believes in the president. He comes without any personal agenda whatsoever."
When Reynolds arrived at the suburban high-rise that houses the campaign just a few miles outside the capital, the daunting $170 million goal already had been set.
At the same time, he inherited tremendous assets for reaching it. including the well-tuned Bush money machine that has been perfecting the art of bringing in checks. both large and small. Perhaps even more important, the campaign has the drawing power of a president energized for the fund-raising circuit.
Moreover, a new federal camDaian finance law_has a iven the Bush team a windfall by doubling the amount an individual can donate to $2,000.1 he Bush campaigni has specialized in reaching well-todo Republican donors who can give the maximum.
As Reynolds put it, the campaign decided that the several hundred Pioneers wh IO - Among the first 23 Rangers announced by the campaign are Tanenblatt and Reynolds. Also on the list are DeWrtt and Carl H. Lindner, former chief executive of Cincinnati-based Chiquita Brands Internationalfood company and owner of the Cincinnati Reds baseball team.
SO organized is the Bush campaign that the volunteer fund-raisers are given SObeq to be written on donors' checks so they can be properly credited.
Rangers and Pioneers are rewarded with photo sessions with the president and occasional thank-you events.
To mobilize these volunteers, Reynolds has tapped into a seasoned network of Republican and Bush fund-raisers, not to mention dozens of his own friends and associates.
Among them is fellow Cincinnatian Richard L. Farmer, founder and chairman of the Cintas work uniform service.
It took no more than a "Dick, I need you" call from Reynolds, said Farmer, who . has been raising money for the party for three decades.
Speaking between phone calls inviting friends to the president's fund-raiser Tuesday in Cincinnati, Farmer said he intends to raise at least $200,000 for the president. i "I do this because Ithink it's important for us to have good government," he said. "I don't have any ax to grind."
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The recent pounding on the president by the Democratic candidates actually may be a boon for fund-raising, Farmer added. "The more competition he's got, I think, the more resolve there is on the part of those who want him to be re-elected."
Donors eager to give again
Some Bush fund-raisers have found that bringing in the dollars takes little persuasion. Among them is Thomas L. Johnson, executive vice president of the Associated General Contractors of Texas and one of the Pioneers raising more than $1 00,000 for Bush's first presidential campaign.
He volunteered to double that amount this time and has begun calling the past givers from his trade group of highway contractors. His pitch line: "OK, you want to go again?"
So far, Johnson said, they've all answered, "You bet."
To manage the complex operation, Reynolds inherited another asset: Jack Oliver, 34. a behind-the-scenes veteran of the first Bush campaign who recently was dubbed by Time magazine as "Bush's brigadier of bucks."
Reynolds, who calls Oliver Yhe cowboy," delights in playing pranks on his high- intensity deputy.
Once he arranged delivery of an urgent message telling Oliver to call the office immediately as he stepped off a plane in California.
When Oliver called, Reynolds said with a chuckle, "I just told him that the lead fund-raiser had just been taken away in handcuffs for drug trafficking."
"I almost believed it." said Oliver.
But levity is in short supply in the eighth floor finance wing, where more than a year and a half before the election, Reynolds works 11-hour days when he's not on the road with the president. Many of his staffers stay until 10 p.m. or later, waiting for callbacks from prospective donors.
Reynolds joins in the strategizing over where and when fund-raisers will be held. He hosted an event at his Cincinnati home with first lady Laura Bush and keeps in phone contact with top Pioneers and Rangers.
He has initiated a new fund-raising tactic in which three staff members are leading an outreach to the Jewish community, raith based roups and the medical field. The goal is to recruit local leaders from these groups w o can be featured at fund- raisers. And recently he initiated a third reward status,- "Maverick," fo! under40 Republicans who raise $50,000 for the camDaign.
Asked why the campaign needs such a pile of money, Reynolds said that's what's required "for the president to deliver his message and defend his record." Although Bush's funds dwarf those of his Democratic rivals, Reynolds is warily watching new, Democratic-leaninggroups, especially those allied with organized labor, that promise to raise tens of millions of dollars to oppose Bush. < Funds draw criticism
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The Bush campaign is "raising these vast amounts of money from a tiny economic elite," said Bonnie Tenneriello, an attorney with the Boston-based National Voting Rights Institute. "They're not just buying influence: they're buying elections."
Fred Wertheimer, whose group Democracy 21 seeks to curb the influence of money in politics, said the funds that the Bush campaign now seeks are "excessive" for an uncontested primary. "When you anoint individuals with special status because they have raised $200,000 . . . that is a problem," he said.
Reynolds dismisses such criicism. "It's obvious that the president is not looking at this as a way of trying to gain influence," he said, adding that the campaign is too big to be dominated by any single group, industry or company.
In a study of the Bush campaign's Federal Election Commission reports, ce nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics fou that the largest group of givers so tar are associated with financial services, in rance and real estate companies. 2 - I - Their combined giving is $6 million as of the end of the last reporting period in June. Among individual firms, the largest amount, $282,000, came from employees of the brokerage firm of Merrill Lynch and their families.
The energy industry contributed less than $1 million altogether. r:% The campaign, which posts all contributions on Its Internet site, also boasts a I:u large number of small donations. Of the more than 105,000 people who had --i* written checks to the president's re-election campaign by the end of June. the campaign estimates that 85,000 gave less than $200.
!>eynoids said donations of any size gain no promises of favorable treatment. He i scoffed at a published report that some Democrats are wondering whether the \ White House decision to host the G-8 economic summit at Sea Island next year is \Lnked to the fund-raiser across the state at Reynolds Plantation. Alfred W. "Bill" Jones, chairman of the company that owns the largest Sea Island hotel, gave-the Bush campaign $2,000, said Reynolds, adding wryly: "That's hardly worthy of giving someone theJG-8."
He said that he was glad for Sea Island's good fortune in getting the summit, but added, "I prefer the plantation."
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Arlington, Va. The small, unadorned oftice Mercer Re no 111 occupies at Bush-Cheney c headquarters offers no hint that he comman/ s e biggest presidential fund-raising drive in I
The modest digs, however, fit the mood of the soft-spoken Cincinnati investment banker as the task of collecting a jawdropping $170 million for the re-election of his longtime friend, GI Bush.
After hearing for the umpteenth time that the Bush fund-raising machine will easily rake in m million, Reynolds is eager to cool down such expectations.
"So far it's OK. It's good enough," he said of the first few months' fund-raising events, direct telemarketing and Internet donations. "The goal we have is ambitious to begin with. So I dor exceed that goal."
Even so, the campaign is set to announce this week that it already has collected more than putting the president well on the way to smashing the $100 million record his campaign set 1
Reynolc& also has the satisfaction of knowing that a major contributor to the successful stai fund-raiser at Reynolds Plantation, the posh golf community he helped develop 75 miles ea downtown Atlanta near Greensboro, on his grandfather's land, where he spent his boyhood hunting for catawba worms to use as fish bait in the local creeks.
President Bush's event at the Georgia resort, his first re-election fund-raiser outside of Wast expected to bring in a respectable $1 million. But that was before Reynolds' cousin and cod Ja ie Re noldsof Greensboro, and Gov. Sonny Perdue's chief of s'taff, Eric Tanenblatt, sti blan* e ing t e state with invitations. Bush landed at Greensboro's tiny airport, then traveled by motorcade through the town and - Thousands of supporters lined the roads, hoisting pro-Bush signs and waving to the preside stopped at least once to shake hands.
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.- .. At the resort, he addressed a casual but welldressedthrong of 750 who paid at least $2,001 .- barbecue under a huge tent outside the clubhouse, where Bush gave a 26-minute speech-tc ;j administration's achievements. -. He also attended a private reception in the clubhouse for those who had given $20,000 or rr
The final tally turned out to be $2.5 million.
When it comes to raising the rest, Jamie Reynolds voiced little doubt about his cousin's abil always impressed me as someone who reaches the goal he sets."
Relationship began with oil
High finance is hardly new for Mercer Reynolds, 58, a pros- n who was t Chattanooga and moved to OhioasColaCo. employee before becoming a private ii
LI It was his investment in oil that led him to Bush. Early one morning more than 20 years ago, ' was meeting with a geologist at a business club in Midland, Texas, when he was introduced llnl president, who had just finished his daily run. I'M Reynolds said he was struck by Bush's exuberance. "He loves life. He loves people," said t picked that up right away."
They formed a friendship that would become crucial to Bush. In 1984, Reynolds and his Cir business partner, William DeWitt, bought out Bush's struggling oil company.
Later, the two investors helped forge the deal that made Bush a co-owner of the Texas Ran: team.
When Bush won election as Texas governor, Reynolds began to move into the world of pol raising.
In Bush's 2000 campaign for president, Reynolds became a "Pioneer," the campaign's desi supporters who pledged to raise at least $100.000 from friends and associates.
After the election, Bush appointed Reynolds as ambassador to Switzerland, a post he held spring. He had grown homesick for his five grown children,,he said, and returned home with Ga brieIle.
When the president asked him to join the re-election campaign, he quickly agreed.
Reynolds was an ideal choice, said Fred Cooper, a former Republican Party chairman in G been a successful businessman," Cooper said, and he "believes in the president. He comes personal agenda whatsoever."
When Reynolds arrived at the suburban high-rise that houses the campaign just a few mile! capital, the daunting $170 million goal already had been set.
At the same time, he inherited tremendous assets for reaching it, including the well-tuned B\ machine that has been perfecting the art of bringing in checks, both large and small. Perhap important, the campaign has the drawing power of a president energized for the fund-raising
! Moreover, a new federal campaign finance law has given the Bush team a windfall by doubl an individual can donate to $2,000. The Bush campaign has specialized in reaching well-to- donors who can give the maximum.
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As Reynolds put it, the campaign decided that the several hundred Pioneers who raised $1
the first Bush presidential campaign can now "basically call the same people to get them' to 4 And so was born a new category, the "Rangers," for those who raise $200.000 each.
Am-ona the first 23 Rangers mounced by the campaign are TaDenbIatt and &yqplds. AIS are DeWrtt and Carl H. Lindner, former chief executive omnannati-based Chiquita Brands food company and owner of the Cincinnati Reds baseball team.
So organized is the Bush campaign that the volunteer fund-raisers are given special ID num written on donors' checks so they can be properly credited.
Rangers and Pioneers are rewarded with photo sessions with the president and occasional - events.
To mobilize these volunteers, Reynolds has tapped into a seasoned network of Republican fund-raisers, not to mention dozens of his own friends and associates.
Among them is fellow Cincinnatian Richard L. Farmer, founder and chairman of the Cintas v sew ice.
It took no more than a "Dick, I need you" call from Reynolds, said Farmer, who has been ra for the party for three decades.
Speaking between phone calls inviting friends to the president's fund-raiser Tuesday in Cinc said he intends to raise at least $200,000 for the president.
"I do this because I think it's important for us to have good government,"-hesaid. "I don't ha\ grind."
The recent pounding on the president by the Democratic candidates actually may be a boon raising, Farmer added. "The more competition he's got, I think, the more resolve there is on those who want him to be re-elected."
Donors eager to give again
Some Bush fund-raisers have found that bringing in the dollars takes little persuasion. Amor Thomas L. Johnson, executive vice president of the Associated General Contractors of Texr the Pioneers raising more than $100,000 for Bush's first presidential campaign.
He volunteered to double that amount this time and has begun calling the past givers from h of highway contractors. His pitch line: "OK. you want to go again?"
So far, Johnson said, they've all answered, "You bet."
To manage the complex operation, Reynolds inherited another asset: Jack Oliver, 34, a bel scenes veteran of the first Bush campaign who recently was dubbed by Time magazine as " brigadier of bucks."
Reynolds, who calls Oliver "the cowboy," delights in playing pranks on his high-intensity del
Once he arranged delivery of an urgent message telling Oliver to call the office immediately off a plane in California.
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"I almost believed it," said Oliver.
But levity is in short supply in the eighth floor finance wing, where more than a year and a hi s.3-- election, Reynolds works 1l-hour days when he's not on the road with the president. Many stay until 10 p.m. or later, waiting for callbacks from prospective donors.
Reynolds joins in the strategizing over where and when fund-raisers will be held. He hosted his Cincinnati home with first lady Laura Bush and keeps in phone contact with top Pioneers
He has initiated a new fund-raising tactic in which three staff members are leading an outrez Jewish community, faith-based groups and the medical field. The goal is to recruit local lead groups who can be featured at fund-raisers.
And recently he initiated a third reward status, 'Maverick," for under40 Republicans who rai the campaign.
Asked why the campaign needs such a pile of money, Reynolds said that's what's required president to deliver his message and defend his record." Although Bush's funds dwarf those Democratic rivals, Reynolds is warily watching new, Democratic-leaning groups, especially with organized labor, that promise to raise tens of millions of dollars to oppose Bush.
Funds draw criticism
The presidential fund-raising is drawing fire from those who seek to reduce the role of mone
The Bush campaign is "raising these vast amounts of money from a tiny economic elite." sai Tenneriello, an attorney with the Boston-based National Voting Rights Institute. "They're not influence: they're buying elections."
Fred Wertheimer, whose group Democracy 21 seeks to curb the influence of money in politi funds that the Bush campaign now seeks are "excessive" for an uncontested primary. "Whe individuals with special status because they have raised $200,000 . . .that is a problem." he
Reynolds dismisses such criticism. "It's obvious that the president is not looking at this as a to gain influence," he said, adding that the campaign is too big to be dominated by any sing1 industry or company.
In a study of the Bush campaign's Federal Election Commission reports, the nonpartisan CE Responsive Politics found that the largest group of givers so far are associated with financia insurance and real estate companies.
Their combined giving is $6 million as of the end of the last reporting period in June. Among firms, the largest amount, $282,000, came from employees of the brokerage firm of Merrill L families.
The energy industry contributed less than $1 million altogether.
The campaign, which posts all contributions on its Internet site, also boasts a large number I donations. Of the more than 105,000 people who had written checks to the president's re-ell campaign by the end of June, the campaign estimates that 85,000 gave less than $200.
Reynolds said donations of any size gain no promises of favorable treatment. He scoffed a1 report that some Democrats are wondering whether the White House decision to host the G summit at Sea Island next year is linked to the fund-raiser across the state at Reynolds Plai
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He said that he was glad for Sea Island's good fortune in getting the summit, but added, "I p plantation."
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I I I A DAVID L WINSTEAD, served under Maryland Governor Parris 1998 I I a-0 as Secretary of the Maryland Department of Transportation where he oversaw the Maryland Department of Transportation with more than 10,000 employees and a $2 billion annual budget Mr. Winstead continues to serve on tlie Governor's task force studying the emerging state transportation bndiny issue While Secretary, Mr Winstead served first as Vice President, then President of the -4iiierican Association of State Highway Transportation Officials aiid chaired its hiterniodal Surface Transportation and Efficiency Act Reautliorization Committee Additionally, Mr Winstead served in the United States Senate as a Special Assistant to U.S.Senator Charles Mc Mathias, Jr responsible for Maryland state/federal issues, Senate Appropriations Committee biMliearings, specific legislative initiatives in the areas of transportation and coninierce; and administered hearings and business of the Maryland Conyressioiial Delegation
Prior to his goveriuiient positions, Mr Winstead was a member of Wilkes Artis from 1987-1995, and lie was a real estate filialicier for James W. Rouse & Company, Inc where he was responsible for analyzing and securiiif debt and equity financing for coiiiiiieccial, industrial and residential properties in the Mid-Atlantic region
Mr Winstead has also served in the capacity of Presidelit of tlie Challenger Center, a noli-profit corporatioii founded by tlie families of the Challenger sliuttle crew, Executive Vice Presidelit of tlie WasIiinsqon/BaltinioreRegional Association, a noli-profit alliance of leading businesses in tlie Wasliin$on/Baltimore area whose primary hiictioii was to research tlie economic trends arid business in tlie region aiid to explore investment and market expansion opportunities
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Mayor Bob Young --! Mayor of the consolidated government of Augusta-Richmond County. GA since January 4. 1999. He began his second term on January 3.2003. following his re-election. He IS a . member of the Advisory Council for the U.S Conference of Mayors. and chairs the Conference's standing committee on enwronment. He is past chairman of the Central Savannah River Area Regional Development Center and chairs the Rtchmond-Burke Job Training Authority.
Mayor Young is a former member of the board of directors of the Georgia Municipal Association. President George W. Bush appovrted Mayor Young to represent the nation's mayors on the Advisory Council for Historic Presetvatlon. where he chairs the Preservation
b:'.. ; { : ._-I - Initiatives Committee. b--O-. '- _' -. b Mayor Young is an alumnus of the Mayor's Institute on City Design Nabonal Endowment for the A )* -- . - a member of the U.S. delegation to the 2001 Jerusalem Conference of Mayors. He represented the b - Mayors at the 2003 China Mayors Conference in Seijing and was a member of the 2003 US Comm b=- a-,- trade mission to Shanghai. Mayor Young was a del ate to the ReDubhcan National Convention m b -:; i.' ; .-j- < as a Presldential Elector for thengovernor George fQ. uusn.
) s--$;' :2'. 'L-- 1 %: :.a* b : * i.,: -..- - The mayor's community involvement includes seMce on the boards of the Central Savannah River b-:-* -.p.r,y as:':-. ,- Ft. Gordon. Georgia-Carolina Boy Scout Council. Augusta Tomorrow. Augusta Metro Chamber of C P ,'"'l:,=: Augusta Arts Council. Historic Augusta. Augusta Museum of History and Augusta International Frie Association. He has been involved in numerous charitable activities. raising hundreds of thousands organizations. In September 2001 Mayor Young led a campaign that raised more than $1 million dc of terrortsm. Prior to his election. Mayor Young was News Anchor and Assistant News Director for Augusta. Gk He joined WJBF in 1985 after 13 years as News Director and reporter for WBBQ radi political talk show, "The Young Report". was named best talk show by the Georgia Association of E Mayor's Office was a consultant to the award-winning ABC series "China Beach" and was nominated for an Emm) 530 Greene Street documentary. "The Great March." Room 806 Augusta, Georgia 3091 1 1 rr His professional affiliations includ Phone: (706)821 -1831 . . Fax (706) 821 -1 835 irs Association. Bob served four ye; d in Vietnam, where he was twice E xgia Wing commander for the U, S htt p .//\vwv aug stasa .gov/de partnient 1211 1E003 .-
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Deep Impact - A need for new ideas by Tom Crawford on 09/12/03 \
Reporters covering the Golden Dome this past week seemed to have written one fill-in-the-blank story that kept repeating itself every day, with the name of a new state agency written into the blank space of each article.
The basic story was that Gov. Sonny Perdue's mandated budget reductions were causing state boards and department heads to propose massive cutbacks in their spending plans that they contended would bring about real hardships for Georgia's citizens. This same theme played it itself out every day in the news coverage.
Even state school Supt. Kathy Cox, a conservative Republican, was sounding the alarm about impending budget reductions (her department's budget proposal would lop off more than $400 million in state grants to local school systems). "If we don't find the money for school improvements and technical assistance, are you ready to spend the kind of money we'll have to spend when we take over a school system?" she posed as a rhetorical question for legislators.
These spending cuts are being assembled by the Office of Planning and Budget in anticipation of a budget deficit that could range anywhere from $1 billion to $2 billion by the time the General Assembly convenes in January. Because of Georda's constitutional requirement for a balanced state budget, lawmakers will have to either come up with some new sources of revenue or implement budget cuts that could close down hospitals and force the layoffs of state employees.
Finding new revenue sources won't be easy, because Perdue has already said he won't support new taxes and some Democratic leaders are also leery of raising taxes. That reluctance can only have been reinforced by Alabama Gov. Bob Riley's crushing defeat at the polls when he tried to restructure that state's tax system.
With "new taxes" off the table, some lawmakers are looking at ways of squeezing more revenues out of existing taxes or suspending old tax breaks for a limited period of time to bring some more dollars into the treasury.
Rep. Chuck Sims @-Douglas) said he's working on several proposals, including one that would rescind sales tax exemptions for one year, coupled with a 5 percent rollback on state income taxes. 9/26/2003 a c I -. - -\, c ,' ) \I
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Wiles is in Former House member John Wiles, a Kennesaw attorney, announced Friday he'll run for the District 35 House seat that Rep. Roger Hines (R-Kennesaw) is giving up to run for the 6th Congressional District seat. Wiles served in the House for eight years, but was shoehorned into the Same district with Hines during the 200 1 legislative reapportionment and lost to Hines in the 2002 Republican primary election.
"While the Democrats were successful in defeating me by placing me in a new district with bother Republican incumbent, I look forward to getting back to the House where I can continue my fight to protect Georgians from crime and make sure that every child has a chance for a good education," Wiles said.
Going after fundraisers Complaints filed against Gov. Sonny Perdue by ethics activist George Anderson, the former Rome bookstore owner, have been resolved by the State Ethics Commission. The commission recently ruled that no evidence was found to support charges that Perdue had misused campaign hnds and dismissed the allegations; Perdue's attorneys settled the other sections of the complaint by providing itemized descriptions of campaign expenditures and the occupations of campaign contributors.
Anderson said he may file another ethics complaint against the Perdue administration and is studying email and calendar information of the governor's top aides that was obtained through an open records request. Perdue Chief of Staff Eric Tanenblatt is listed as a "Ranger" by the George W. Bush campaign committee because he's raised more than $200,000 for Bush's 2004 election effort.
"Eric's got 93 private appointments on his personal calendar," Anderson said. "I'm trying to detennine if those private appointments are for fundraising. I really think I'm on to something "
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"He does not do a nt or @e governor on state time," said Perdue's r communications direc does it.at home on his co from the ofice. xis g a log of ern~sfiomhi from his cellphone and home phone."( -a * J L 1Ground breaking The University System Georgia's office of information and instructional technology broke ground Thursday for the construction of an 8O,OOO-~quare-f00thcility in Oconee County. The building which will house about 165 employees, will be equipped with high-speed internet access and fiber-optic cable and is designed to handle future expansion up to 220 employees. The office of information and ,' ,' instructional technology administers computer systems for the 34 institutions in the University System and is responsible for the delivery of online distance learning classes.
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EXECUTIVE ORDER
BY THE GOVERNOR ESTABLISHING A CODE OF ETHICS FOR EXECU"E BRANCH OFFICERS AND EMPIxlyEEs
WHEREAS: in out their official duties and obligations, all officess and unployees of stategavanmentmustwork solely fix the pubLic 8006, stxivingvigilantly to midtveo the appemmx that their actions aremotivatedbyprivateorpersonal interest;&
WHEREAS: it is in thebest intereals of the State of Georgiathat 0Onsj-t policies on ethicsbeappliedtoafl~~~offi~andenrploy#s;snd
NOW, THEREFORE, BY THE POWER VESTED IN ME AS GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF OEOROIA, KI' IS HEREBY ORDERED. That the Executive orda estsbbhhg anEthics in Government Policy of January 29,1999 is hereby RESCINDED and the following dhics policias 81t haeby adopted.
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i. All anplops in the Oovaaor's OKa end the oflfice of the Governor.
ii. The heads of all State agencies who are appointedbythc Oovunor.
(i) "A& means any Executive Brand dqxulmeat, board, bureau, apcy, m~CO~~C~Z Mty, dty,or instxumu~talityof any kind, andothem as maybe designated by the Govanor, to the exteat that such daiption docs not dctwith ooorgia law.
I (iu) "Agency bead" means the exdmhead of an aeeacy. (iii) "Charitable Organization" shall have the meaning defined in O.C.G.A. Section 45-20-5 1.
(iv) 73qloyce'' shall mean any anployee in the of the Governor, including the Governor, and any enployee of my aga~cyas deked herein.
(vi3 Wit" means anyfhing of value exceeding S25, including, but not limited to, food, lodging, transportation, peaonal senrices,gratuities, subscriptions, membaships, trips, loans, cxtmsions of dt,fern= of debts, M advances ar &posits ofmoney.
(viii) "OfEcer" meanstheGovemmdthe heads of all State agencia wbo are appoiatad by the Oovanar. For p\tiposes of this Order, all "offiaxs" IIFC also "eaaploy#s"8!3 that term is de6ned haein.
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b. l%e Executive Counsel is hereby designated the Ethics Maxof the mce of the GOvemiii-- Section 3, ConfIicts of Intenst
1.AnanpioyeeoftheExecPtiveBraachoftheStatesMt~~~~toavoid even the appearance of a Codlid of h- An of conflict exists wha a reawnable pason would umcludc -the that the emgloyee's abiity to protect tho public bkmst, orp~mpublicdutics,is comwby pasoDal intaws. An appearance of oanflid could exist evain the ab- of a true dctof inter&
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An employee oawhosebehatf actual rradreasonablc expcsses fat. food, bcvcrages,m* lodging, and registration are paid to pumit the employee's participation in a meeting ' related to official or professional duties of the anployee shall file a tcport no later than the 30 days aftadcxpeusa ruepaid. Thcrepbic shall be fled with the designated Ethics Officer. The report must da description of ea& expense, the monetmy value themoc the name and addreps ofthcpersonpayingsuchcqense,and the purpose, i date, and location of the meeting. Notwithstanding this provision, the prcf" practice I is for agencies and not thixd patties to pay such expepses. i Section 7. Nemtism
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ESTABLISHING A CODE OF €THICS FOR EXECUTIVE BRANCH OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES
WHEREAS: in order to maintain the public trust, it is essential that the government function in a manner consistent with the highest I ethical standards; and i i WHEREAS: in carrying out their official duties and obligations, all I officers and employees of state government must work solely for the I public good, striving vigilantly to avoid even the appearance that their actions are motivated by private or personal interest; and
I I i WHEREAS: it is in the best interests of the State of Georgia that I consistent policies on ethics be applied to all executive officers and employees; and
WHEREAS: State employees should use their powers and resources to further the public interest and not for any financial or other personal benefit, other than salaried compensation and empioyer- provided benefits;
WHEREAS: State employees must safeguard their ability to make objective, fair, and imparlial decisions and therefore should not accept benefits of any sort under circumstances in which it could be inferred by a reasonable observer that the benefit was intended to influence a pending or future decision or to reward a past decision; and
WHEREAS: State employees must avoid any conduct, whether in the context of business, financial, or social relationships, which might undermine the public trust, whether that conduct is unethical or lends itself to the appearance of ethical impropnety
NOW, THEREFORE, BY THE POWER VESTED IN ME AS GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF GEORGIA, IT IS HEREBY
ORDERED: That the Executive Order establishlng,an Ethics In Government Policy of January 29,1999 is hereby RESCINDED and the following ethics policies are hereby adopted.
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Sonny Perdue Executive Counsel GOVERNOR 404451-m 404-656-5948 Facsimile tu 13 13 August 2003
Georgehderson 18 Wickenham Road Rome, Georgia 30161 Re': Open Records Request Dear Mr. Anderson: We have received your open records request dated 7 August 2003, received in our office 8 August 2003. As you discussed yesterday with our assistant, Aimee Brandenburg, the records are available for inspection here in our office. Also, per your request, and for your convenience, we have copied the six phone logs you requested to the edo~edCD-ROM. With reference to your request for "ten phone calls [and] bills," no member of the GOVCXIIO~'Sstaff has a state-paid cellular telephone, and no member of the Governor's staff has ever requested reimbursement from the State for calls on a personal cellular telephone. Therefore, no records responsive to your request exist. If we may be of any further assistance, please do not hesitate to contact us.
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VENDOR: Thomas D. Hills CONTRACT ITEM: VENDOR ADDRESS: SWCRT: 1 VENDOR PHONE: MNDOR FAX: VENDOR FEW: MINORITY: PROGRAM (FUND SOURCE) 1 ACCOUNT #: 672019 SUBCLASS:,6f2 422010000013 4
f--\ STATE OF GEORGIA hoe 001 OF 001 'r-sl OFFICE OF PLANNINQ AND BUDBET OWclrNo. 0000262 107 VrdOrNo: 0000020862 Qwckoew 09/23/2009 - VadorNune. USHER,YICHELLh SELSNA ATLANTA, OA chclr Total. $10.96 . - BANI< 1300-1000 INVOICE GROSS DISCOUNT AMOUNT NUMBER AMOUNT 1 TAKEN. I PAID 6-09962 09[16/2003 000078040 10 .as 0.00 10. as TVL 07/2e=07/ao/oa .
STATE OF GEORGIA 64-6/610 OFFICE OF PLANNINP AND BUDGET 270 YASHINPTON STREET. ROOM 8087 ATLANTA; ei ab334
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TO BE &ED TO: Governor's Ofke REQUESTEOBY: wchael T. GmVl8y, II
ADDRESS: 11?'State Capitol DATE: Atlanta, GA 30334 APPROMO BY: ROOM# Suite 111 PHONE # 404-656-6301 DATE:
L QUAMlTW PACKAGE EXPENDITURE REQUESTED (Describe Fully) UWPRICE AMOUNT lea Reimbursement to Thomas 0. Hills for Cingular Wireless 12.80 $12.80
, State related cell phone calls. Account # 672019 and Bill date 711 0103 Please see attached documentation
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VENDOR: Thomas D. Hills CONTRACT ITEM: VENDORADDRESS: 3 SWCk 'i VENDOR PHONE: VENDOR FAX:
VENDOR FEW: 8'57- zo.mqG, * MINORTTV: PROGRAM (FUND SOURCE) 1 ACCOUNT # 672019 SUBCLASS:,672 TO BE DELIVERED TO: - office Of the Governor REQUESTED BV: Thomas D. Hills
L. .L Chief Financial Officer ,!ADDRESS: 270 Washington St., S.W. DATE 8/14/2003 Atlanta, GA 30334 APPROVED BY: Y ROOM # 8066 PHONE # (404) 656-7919 FAX# 4) 656-7901 DATE: 03 + QUANTITY EXPENDITURE REQUESTED (Describe Fully) UNIT PRICE AMOUNT Reimbursement to Thomas D. Hills $12.80 for Cingular Wireless State-related telephone calls
: TOTAL $12.80
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Paem 2 Acqunt Number: 06481131~001-65 - Billing Date: Jul 10. 2003 a, Account Name: THUlAS 0 HILLS J Ikbile Number: (404) 21 9- 9542 3. ..
Previous Balance ...... ?0.75 Payments Received Through 07110103: PAYHEM1 RECEIVED THANK YOU 06/22/03...... 70.75 Total Payrrentc ...... 70.75 Total Mjutt~nts...... 0.~ TOTAL PAST DUE BAUNCE...... 0.00
PETAIL OF ACMUNT ?lOKlHLY ACTIVITy
mLYCHARGES /HOtlE 250 WRO 07/11 to 08/10 .....29.99 /CALL FORWARDING . NO CHARGE 0711 1 to 081 IO.. ...-0.00 /CALL WAITING - NO CHARGE 07lTl to 08/10 ...... 0.00 /DCS ECONOIW WOBILE HEIW N/C 07/11 to 08/10 ...... 0.00 /DCS HESSAGE WAIT INDICATOR N/C 07/11 to 08/10,. ....O.OO i'u /NO ANSUER TRANSFER . NO CHARGE 07/11 to 08/10...... 0.00 I:?..- /THREE-PARTY CALLING-NO CHARGE 07111 to 08/10 ...... 0.00 CALLER ID NIC 07/11 to 08/10 ...... 0.00 CINGUVIR BASICS 07/11 to 08/10 ...... 2.99 DETAILED BILLING NIC 07/11 to 08/10 ...... 0.00 IROB OUAL BAND 07/11 to 08/10 ...... 0.00 /CfNGULAR S. 69/tlIN ROARING 07/11 to oaiio ...... 0.00 ICA STATEWIDE PKG MINUTES APPLY 07/11 to 08/10...... 0.00 /TEXT HSG. SO.lO/HSG. 07/11 to 06/10 ...... 0.00 CINGUIAR NATIONWIDE TOLL FREE 07/11 to 08/10 ...... 0.00 CONNECTION CHARGE HAY APPLY 07/11 to 08/10 ...... O.OO Total hnthly Charger...... 32.98 AIRTIWE CHARGES
Total Time Hinutea Billed Period US4 tlinutes Charaea Peak 330 82 32.80 Nights 4 2 0.80
Total 334 a4 33.60
Previous Rollover Bal ance 0 Current Rollover Balance 0
t Total Local Ai rtioe Charges...... 33.60 tom; DISTANCE lOfRECTORY ASSISTANCE ...... 2.56 RoAnING CHARGES ...... 21.~9 REGUUTORY COST RECOVERY FEE ...... 0.32 911 CY ...... 1.00 EOUNIVERSAL SVC CHARGE ...... 2.35
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AOJUSMWTS TO CURRENT CHARGES CONNECTION CHARGE ...... 1.24 Total Adjurtment(r) to Current Charges...... 1.24 TAXES tax based on 15.95 access for pkg plan FGDORK EXCISE TAX ...... 2.74 STATE SALES TAX...... -0.84 COUNTY SALES TAX...... O.63 Total Taxes ...... 4. 21 TOTAL CURRENT WoNlHLY CHARGESICREOITS...... 99.67 TOTAL AMUNT WE 8Y AUGUST 02, 2003 ...... 99.67
AIRTIHE AN0 LONG OISTAWCE CWUZCES ------CHARGES------Length c1ty of Alr Long --Itam Oate Time C4 No. Called Called f E Call Tiae Dirt. Total 1 06111 10:WAH 404 525-4821 ATUHT GA P 1 0.00 0.00 2 06/11 10:51coI 404 814-4021 ATUNT CA P 2 0.00 0.0- 3 06/11 10:52AH 404-UNT GA P -0.00 0.OY 4 06111 10:59A?l 828 743-0130 CASHIE K P 9 0.00 0.00, 5 06/11 04:26p)1 404 814-4020 ATCANT GA P 2 0.00 0. oo/ 6 06/11 04:27Ptl 404 332-1320 ATUHT GA P 5 0.00 0.00 7 06111 04mm 828 743-0130 CASHIE NC P 2 0.00 0.- 8 06111 04:33PH 404 733-4201 ATUNT CIA P 1 0.00 0.00 B 06111 04:34PH 404 978-7184 ATLANT G4 P 2 0.00 0.00 10 06111 05:12PH 404 733-4644 ATWT CA P 3 0.00 0.00 ii 061ii os:i4pn 000 000-0009 VOICE CL P 2 0.00 0.00 12 06/11 05:16Pn 404 978-7184 ATLANT CIA P 1 9.00 0.00 13 06/11 os:i~m 404 978-7160 ATLANT GA P 2 0.00 0.00 14 06111 0S:lOPn 770 267-3020 WROE G4 P 1 0.00 0.009 I5 06/11 05:21Pn 404 233-8133 ATCANT GA P 1 0.00. 0.00 16 06111 05:24W 404 978-7133 ATWT GA P 2 0.00 17 06112 12:20Ptl 404- ATUHT GA Q re 0.00 f:o"o, 18 06/12 12:23Pn 404 495-2039 ATUHT CA P 3 0.00 0.00 19 06112 12:26pW 404 261-6907 ATLAHT GA P 2 0.00 0.00 20 06/12 12:27Pn 000 WO-0099 VOICE CL P 1 000 000 1 0.00 0.00 22 06/12 12:29Pn 404 249-9633 ATUNT GA P 1 0.00 0.00 -23 06/12 12:29Ptl 404 249-0633 ATUNT GA P 2 0.00 0.00 24 06112 i2:3ipn 404 352-1882 ATLANT CA P 2 0.00 0.00 2s 06/12 12332Ptl 404 588-8249 ATUNT GA P 3 0.00 0.00 ' 26 06/12 12334PH 404 355-5961 ATlANT GA P 2 0.00 0.00 27 06112 12:36PH 404 231-4942 ATUHT G4 P 2 0.00 0.00 28 06112 12:38Pn 404 233-2001 ATUNT CA P 1 0.00 0.00 29 06/12 12:39PH 000 000-0411 DIR AS CL P 4 0.00 1.29 1.29 30 06112 12:43PH 404 680-7927 ATMT GA P 3 0.00 0.00 31 06112 12:46fW 404 814-4165 ATUHT GA P 1 0.00 0 .ow 32 06112 12:47Ptl 40 4 401-0013 ATUNT GA P 1 0.0 0.00 33 06112 12:49Pn 404 233-2121 ATMT CA P 2 0.00 0.00 34 06112 02:04PH 404 978-7184 ATUNT CA P 2 0.00 0.00 35 OW17 08:06AH 404 970-7184 ATMT GA P 3 0.00 0.00 36 06117 11:lIAn 404 525-4821 ATUNT Gh P 3 0.00 0.00 37 06/17 11:19AH 404 219-9512 INconI CL P 1 0.00 0.00 38 06/17 11:20AN 404 219-9542 INCOflI CL P 1 0.00 0.00 39 06/18 09:3?AH 104 525-482i ATLANT CA P 1 0.00 0.00 40 06/18 01:44PH 404 525-4821 ATUNT GA P 2 0.00 0.00
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~ 48 06/19 05:OTPH 404 814-4116 ATLANT GA P 2 000. 0.O.OOr 00f 49 06/10 07:47Pn 404 262-2091 ATUNT a P . 1 0.00 50 06119 07:48Pn 000 000-0099 VOICE CL P 2 0.00 0.00 51 06/20 09:18AH 404 978-7184 ATLANT GA P 4 0.00 0.00 52 06/20 12:24PH 404 978-7104 ATLMT GA P 6 0.00 0.00 53 06/20 12:29Pn 000 000-0411 OIR AS CL P 2 0.00 1.29 1.29 1 54 06/20 01:56PH 404 5:2 15- 48 21 ATLANT CA P 5 0.00 0.00 ! 55 06122 04:oi~n 770 42 '4- 46 SOATLAWTGA W 2 0.00 0.00 56 06123 0?:41AH -404 9 7'B-tl 84 ATUWT GA P 5 0 00 0.00 ... . . 57 06123 05:42PH 404 9 7 8-71 84 ATLANT GA - P 1 0.00 - * o.Oo--- --...... - 58 06/23 05:43Pn 404 97 8-71 84 ATlANT GA P 9 0.00 0.00 59 06124 07:50An 404 e7 '8-71 84 ATLANT GA P 2 0.00 0.00 60 06/24 09:5U -404 97 '8-71 84ATLANTGA P 2 0.00 0.00 61 06124 09:56M 000 0i ,o-oo 99 VOICE CL P 1 0.00 0.00 62 06124 09:56AH 404 52 !5- 48 21 ATLANT GA P 2 0.00 0.00 63 06/24 10:03AH 404 21 19-95 842 INconI CL P 1 0.00 0.00 64 06/24 10:0515)1 -404 917 '8- 7162 ATLAWT GA f i 0.00 0.00 65 06124 10:SOAn 4oeci m 69 ATLANT GA P la, 0.00 0.00J 66 06/24 12:MPn 000 0Y 10- 00 199 VOICE CL P 2 0.00 0.00 67 06126 12:OSPU 404 gli r8- 7164 ATUNT GA P 1 0.00 0.00 60 06/26 01 :53Pll -404 6g i6-18 9 ATLANT GA P 2 0.w 0: 00/ 69 06/26 01 sspn 404 9 r8-71 14 ATUNT GA P 4 0.00 0.00 70 06/26 0l:SBptl 404 513 15-48 I2!l ATUWT GA P 5 0.00 0.00 71 06126 03:18PH 404 978-71 84 ATLANT CA P 3 0.00 0.00 72 06/27 07:2OAH 404 525-4821 ATLANT GA P 2 0.00 0.00 73 06/27 09:28AH 404 656-3067 ATLANT GA P 3 0.00 0.00 fl 74 06/27 09:31AH 404 525-4821 ATUNT GA P 4 0.00 0.00 75 06/27 10:48An 404 978-7184 ATLANT GA P 5 0.00 0.00 76 06127 10:53Aw 40- ATUNT GA P PI 0 00 0 out 77 06/27 10.55An 407ATUHTGA P 0.00 0:00' 78 06/27 10:57Atl 40 %46 8906 ATUNT GA P 3 0.00 O.OO< 79 06/27 10:59AH 678 575-0719 ATUINT CA P I 0.00 0.00; 80 061 27 11 :OOM 404 262-2091 ATLMT GA P 1 0.00 0.00, 81 06127 11:01M 404 262-2091 ATUNT GA P 1 0.00 O.OO& 82 06/27 12: 14PH 404-ATLANT GA P 0.00 0.00e 83 06/27 12:lSPH 404-AlLAUT GA P @ 0.00 0.00 84 06/27 12:lSPU 404 ATLANT GA P 0.00 0.00 85 06/27 12:16PH 404 ATUNTCA P srr 0.00 0.00 ' 86 06/27 02:oopn 404 978-7184 ATLANT GA P 4 0.00 0.00 87 06/27 02:03m 404 525-4821 ATLAW GA P 0 0.00 0.00 88 06/27 02:37Pfl 404- TLANTGA P lp 0.00 89 06127 02:39Ptl 404 TlANTGA P rol 0.00 8: 3 90 06/27 02:41PH 404GWTGA P 2 0.00 0.00 i .. 91 06/27 02:43PH 40~~~TIANTCA P & 0.00 0.00 a ;. p 92 06/27 02:46PH 404 219-9542 INCOnl CL P 2 0.00 0.00 93 06127 02:52PH 404 219-9542 INCOHI CL P 9 0.00 0.00 94 06/27 03:OlPH 404 572-6372 AUTGA ? 2 0.00 0.00 95 06/27 03:03PH 404 512-2399 ATLANT GA P 6 0.00 0.00 96 06/27 03:22PH 404 2i~-gs42tmnr CL P 9 0 00 0.00 97 06/27 03:32PH 404 978-7184 ATLANT GA P 4 1.60 1.60
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STATE OF GEORGIA OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR ATIANTA 30334-0900 Sonny Perdue GOVERNOR MEMORANDUM
DATE: . August 19,2003
TO: Eric Tanenblatt, Chief of Staff
FROM: Michael Gravley
RE: Long Distance Totals
.Here are your long distance totals for line 404-651-7793. I have also attached copies of the actual billed )calls.
February bill total = $9.86 March bill total = $13.55 April bill total = $9.79 May bill total = $13.26 June bill total = $19.43 July bill total = $5.69 August bill total = $6.5 1
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The Bush-Cheney Gazillions Tour , by Ward Harkavy October 22 - 28,2003 .-?-..-
President Bush's re-election campaign has coupled the time- honored tradition of the chicken- dinner whistle-stop tour with the 2lst-century technology of electronic check-tracking and a bit of Texas terminology to produce a monster of political fundraising .
"Soft money" has been outlawed. And individual contributions are limited to $2,000 each. Now the key word is I' bund ling . I'
Bush has three levels of bundlers who woo friends and allies to high-ticket (usually $1,00 0 -a- plate) campa ign lunches and dinners. Rangers are those committed to raising at least $200,000 each for the campaign; Pioneers have a goal of $100,000; and Mavericks are the under-40 crowd aiming at $50,000 each. (During the 2000 campaign, Bush had only the Pioneer category, of which Enron's Ken Lay was a member.)
Donors at the rallies put special tracking numbers on their campaign checks so that Dubya's workers can credit bundlers as they try to meet their goals. Scores of top Republicans, including elected and appointed officials, are already Rangers and Pioneers, of course, and their loyalty is still tallied. Donors get the thrill of hearing either George W. Bush or Dick Cheney at the event. Bundlers get hang time with party and business celebrities, perhaps even with Dubya or Dick.
Bush-Cheney 04 Inc., the official name of the president's campaign, has hauled in more than $70 million of its-total $84.7 million war chest from the nationwide Dubya-Oick tour alone. And that's just through September 30. The president may top $200 million, twice what he spent in 2000, when he had primary opponents. http-//www villagevoice.cadi ssues/0343/harkavy php Exhibit: .A v ~rayev ULCC reaiuies I ti(: tsusii+ ueiiey W~ZIIIIOI~SI our oy vv am narKavy .- -) 1
"Ohhhh, I think we'll raise about a gazillion dollars. Maybe three irfour Tn gazillion," AI Hoffman, finance chairman of the Republican National Str c- Committee, said of an upcoming stop by Bush at Hoffman's Florida .)'- . ut home. no fht Following is the Bush canipaign's official list of Rangers, 185 Brc 100 Ret Pioneers, and 20 Mavericks. Watchdog groups suspect that there are At1 hundreds more. But who's counting? Set
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Tony Antone, Michigan: A top aide to a developer, and already a Pioneer. (The Bush campaign's data on who's a Pioneer, Maverick, or Ranger contains other such inconsistencies.) He's a former aide to fellow Arab American Michigan pol Spencer Abraham, now secretary of energy.
Jeff Ballabon, New York: Rising star among what The Forward calls "a cadre of Generation X Republican Jewish activists, many of them Orthodox." A hawk on Israel-even The Forward refers to him as a right- winger in that sense. "The president will give the Palestinians as much slack as they need to have a fair shot at success, or to hang themselves," Ballabon has said. Co-chaired a June 23 fund raising dinner starring Bush in Manhattan that raked in $4 million. Heads the public- policy department at magazine and Web behemoth Primedia. As a Court TV executive, was a key figure early on in negotiating with states to allow cameras in their courtrooms.
David Catania, District of Columbia : One of the most visible openly gay politicians in D.C., the Republican member of the D.C. Council was first elected in 1997. Supports school vouchers.
Marshall Cooper, New Hampshire: Executive at Kennedy Information. Was the original publisher, a few years ago, of Consulting magazine, now a bible of the industry. The magazine's Top 25 consultants of 2002 included Rudy Giuliani, ex-New York City police commissioner Bernard Kerik, and current Iraq pasha, L. Paul "Jerry" Brenier.
0 Husein Cumber, Florida: Listed by the campaign as both a Pioneer and a Ranger. Assistant vice president for public affairs for Florida East Coast To ad Industries (FECI), a key branch of Florida's largest private landholder, the St. Joe Co. Former campaign aide to Governor Jeb Bush. "What you're seeing," Cumber has said of his fundraising for Dubya, "is a group of people that all have distinct Rolodexes as well as the ability to reach Sponsored Links out into their communities." This past July, a Miami/Dade County Buslness Opporhrnlty environmental agency reached into the low-income Hialeah community Health Insurance to begin investigating whether FECI, which is facing whistle-blower 1 Insurance Quotes lawsuits, has covered up hazardous-materials spills at its rail yard there Cash Advance since the mid 1990s. Free Cell Phone
htt p //www vi 11 agevoice.condi ssu ed0343 /liar kavy - ph p 1212/1003 Paul Dickerson, Texas: Houston tax, contracts, and business-pianning lawyer. Already a Pioneer. Appointed in 2001 to the Texas Board of Chiropractic Examlners. Told Texas Lawyer magazine in December 2002 that one of his five favorite Web-surfing sites was appointee. brookings.org. Why? "This nonpartisan site helps presidential nominees during their political appointment process. It is an amazing resource for those interested in presidential appointnients." Six inonths later, Dickerson, only five years out of law school and just an associate at Houston firm Haynes and Boone, was appointed to the U.S. Secretary of Commerce and U.S. Trade Representative's Industry Sector Advisory Committee on Services for Trade Policy Matters, where he rubs elbows with such fellow members as Donald A. Deline, director of government affairs for Halliburton, and Laura Lane, Time Warner Inc.'s vice president for international public policy.
Christopher Egan, Massachusetts: Son of Richard Egan, founder of Massachusetts computer database firm EMC and appointed by Bush as ambassador to Ireland after being fined by the FEC for exceeding contribution limits. Richard Egan, who had no diploinatic experience, served for two years before retiring. Chris, brother Mike, and Pop are all Rangers-the only such family trio in the country. Since 1999, the Egans have given almost $900,000 to federal candidates and party committees, 91 percent of it to Republicans.
Lisa Gable, Virginia: Expert in "brand consultancy" for financial and high-tech firms. Strong fundraiser for Bush in California during the 2000 campaign, when she was Silicon Valley "e-chair" for the ticket. Member of the President's Commission on White House Felluwships, which (in an e-mail sent out far and wide, naturally) she calls "America's most prestigious program for leadership and public service" and notes that they are are handed out on a "strictly non-partisan basis." Also raises funds for other fundraisers: She hosted a fundraising event late last month for Virginia house speaker William.3. Howell, the most prolific GOP fundraiser in her adopted state.
Todd Huston, Indiana: Already a Pioneer, he's got the pedigree-his uncle Tom was a counsel in the Nixon White House; his sister, Julie Huston Thomas, works for Dubya. Class of '94 at Indiana University, Todd, director of business operations at Komputrol, unsuccessfully tried to bring Pat Buchanan to campus to counter appearances by the likes of Spike Lee and Angela, Davis. Unbowed, back in 2001 he refused to donate to his alma mater because an IU branch in Fort Wayne was putting on a production of Terrence McNally's Corpus Chrrsti. "If they want to have a play like this," Huston told The Indianapolis Star, "they should next put on a play with a true biblical representation of Christ."
Mary Kate Johnson, Maryland : Finance director of Bush's Presidential Inaugural Committee in 2001.
John Kelly, Washington: Treasurer of Microsoft's political action committee. Personally donated $100,000 to Bush's 2001 Presidential Inaugural Committee, which raised a total of $28.8 million. Member of Washington state's "magnificent seven" cadre of young GOP strategists. ! John Kern, Ohio: Business partner of Mercer Reynolds and (St. Louis Cardinals owner) Bill DeWitt Jr., the Cincinnati duo who helped Dubya
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get started In the oil business. Reyilolds isn't listed as a Ranger, but he's - a better fundraiser than any of them, having been termed in the press as -==.-. :ff\ Oubya's "$170 million man." Cincy donors have given Bush's 2004 '- . campaign $814,600 so far. Kern's zip code, 45243, has given the most money to Bush outside of New York City.
Craig Kunkle, Indiana: Operations and finance director for the Indiana Republican Party.
Rob Leebern, Georgia: Already a Pioneer, Leebern managed Saxby Chambliss's successful U.S. Senate bid in 2002. (He had been Chambliss's chief of staff when the pol was in the U.S. House.) A year ago, Leebern was hired as a D.C. lobbyist for the Atlanta powerhouse law firm Troutman Sanders, which represents, among many other corporations, energy giant Southern Co. The 500-person law firm has 54 attorneys in D.C., many of them dealing with Southern's numerous 1'511 I'u regulatory issues. Troutnian Sanders was cited as one of Southern Co.'s c primary litigators in the National Law lournars annual listing "Who Defends Corporate America." Troutman Sanders also defended Georgia Power Co. against what the Fulton County Daily Report called "a potential class action by African American workers who claimed that hangman's nooses were hung in their workplaces and that they were harassed and systematically shortchanged in promotions and pay." The suit was dismissed.
Paul Maynard, Minnesota: A Deloitte & Touche executive in the Twin Cities who moved over from Arthur Andersen in the summer of 2002.
Stephen Payne, Texas: A Houston business consultant who already made Pioneer and, as a result, got invited to an August 9 barbecue in Crawford, where he and 350 other bundlers mingled with Bush and his top aides and were herded to the Broken Spoke Ranch, just down the road from Bush's spread.
Don Peay, Utah: Known as the person who "dictates wildlife policy in Utah," Peay heads the politically active, 10,000-member Sportsmen for Fish and Wildlife. "Our focus is to grow more critters and have a fair way to divvy them up," he said. A Western Wildlife Conservancy spokesman told The Salt Lake Tribune that Peay bullies his opponents as "wild-eyed environmentalists and extremists." But pro-basketball star Karl Malone, a hunting buddy of Peay's, said, "The day I met him is the day Isaid, 'He's a leader.' So am I." Malone, a longtime Utah Jazz player now with the Los Angeles Lakers (and a contributor to the Utah GOP), is pondering a run for Utah governor; he's discussed it with Peay. "Governor Ventura- he was a wrestler, and he won it," Malone told a reporter. "So why not?"
Bryan Pickens, Texas: Already a Pioneer.
Eric Tanenblatt, Georgia : Among the first 23 Rangers, along with Bill DeWitt Jr. and Chiquita banana boss and former S&L figure Charles Keating partner Carl Lindner. A transplant from Long Island, Tanen blatt is chief of staff for Governor Sonny Perdue, the first Republican to hold that office in more than a century. Raised a Republican, Tanenblatt found t his ardor intensified when he ran into a president during a D.C. internship. "I met Ronald Reagan," he recalled for The Los Angeles Times, "and I don't know what it was, but something came over me."
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George H. Walker IV, New York: Dubya's second cousin and already a Pioneer, he lives on Greene Street in Soh0 and, still in his early SOs, is co-head of Goldman, Sachs & Co.'s Hedge Fund Strategies Group, which services wealthy investors. A Phi Beta Kappa grad of the Wharton School, he became a Goldman partner at age 29-one of the youngest ever. "I'm very proud of my family, but I don't talk about them,'' he says. "That's not something that is going to make our clients money."
Of the 100 listed by the Bush campaign, 14 are from Florida, 12 from Texas, 11 from California, and eight from New York.
Duane Wm Acklie, Nebraska
W. Andrew Adams, Tennessee
Dawn and Roland E. Arnall, California
Alfred Sa Austin, Florida
Cathy Bailey, Kentucky
Lawrence Em Bathgate 11, New Jersey
Bruce D. Benson, Colorado
Tee1 Bivins, Texas
Michael Ma Boone, Texas
Katherine Em Boyd, California
Elliott Broidy, California
Steve Burd, California
Marvin P. Bush, Virginia
James Pa Cain, North Carolina
Joseph Cm Canizaro, Louisiana
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William 0. DeWitt Jr., Ohio
Jennifer Dunn, Washington
Buzz duPont, California
Christopher F. Egan, Massachusetts
Richard 3. Egan, Massachusetts
Michael 1. Egan, Massachusetts
Richard T. Farmer, Ohio
Robert Fee, New York
C. Edward Floyd, South Carolina
Frank E. Fowler, Tennessee
Sam Fox, Missouri
Bradford M. Freeman, California
Yousif B. Ghafari, Michigan
David F. Girard-di Carlo, Pennsylvania
Charles L. Glazer, Connecticut x Stephen Goldsmith, Indiana Robert T. Grand, Indiana
Joseph Grano, New York
Hank Greenberg, New York
Jon D. Hammes, Wisconsin
1. Dennis Hastert, Illinois
Michael Hightower, Florida
AI Hoffman, Florida
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John C. Kern Jr., Ohio
Nancy G. Kinder, Texas
Mark Kirk, Illinois
Jim Kittle Jr., Indiana
lames R. Klauser, Wisconsin
C. Michael Kojaian, Michigan
Fred W. Lazenby, Tennessee
Michael Lebovitz, Tennessee
Stephen Lessing, New York
Carl H. Lindner, Ohio
Carl HeLindner 111, Ohio
Tom and Nancy Loeffler, Texas
Bob and Mary Jane Martinez, Florida
Susan McCaw, Washington
Mayer Mitchell, Alabama
Allen Morgan Jr., Tennessee
Dennis E. Nixon, Texas
Stan O'Neal, New York '
Bill Owens, Colorado
George E. Pataki, New York
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Raul R. Romero, Texas
John 0. Rood, Florida
Larry Ruvo, Nevada
Patrick Gm Ryan, Illinois
Kenneth Rm Satterlee, California
Justin 1. Sayfie, Florida
W. Richard Scarlett 111, Wyoming
Dwight Schar, Virginia
William Scherer, Flotida
Ned Lm Siegel, Florida
Gregory W. Slayton, California
Gordon Smith, Oregon
Alex G, Spanos, California
Manuel Stamatakis, Pennsylvania
Shawn and Michelle Steel, California
John T, Steen Jr., Texas
Marc Im Stern, California '
William Hm Strong, Illinois &, Er-nenblatt, Georgia xwmkTimken Jr., Ohio
Ben Whitney, Minnesota
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Zachariah P. Zachariah, M.D., Florida
Frederick Zeidman, Texas
Bush's campaign has been lauded for releasing its bundler lists. But watchdogs such as Texans for Public Justice and The Nation contend that there are hundreds more Pioneers and have pressed the campaign to release a full list. TPJ's extensive website ( ) on the campaign includes a spreadsheet tracking what it says are more than 500 Pioneer program participants.
Jack Abramoff, D.C.
Anthony Alexander, Ohio
Teresa Amend, Texas
Tony Antone, Michigan
Alexander Arshinkoff, Ohio
Robert H. Asher, Illinois
Bob Asher, Pennsylvania
Edward G. Atsinger 111, California
Lee M. Bass, Texas
Frank Baxter, California
Louis A. Beecherl Jr., Texas
Dee Dee Benkie, Indiana
Robert 1. Bennett, Ohio
Dennis R. Berman, Texas
Wayne Berman, D.C.
Ron Beshear, Ohio
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Molly Bordonaro, Oregon
Rudy Boschwitz, Minnesota
David Lm Brennan, Ohio
William Om Brisben, Ohio
Les Brorsen, Virginia
August Busch 111, Missouri
Wendy Cantor Hales, California
AI Cardenas, Florida
John Dm Carswell, Georgia
James Cayne, New York
James Hm Click, Arizona
Norman Coleman, Minnesota
Robert J. Congel, New York
John Connors, Washington
Fred Cooper, Georgia
Douglas Em Corn, Ohfo
Lucia Cottone, Florida
Jim Culbertson, North Carolina
Alfonse D'Amato, New York
John Cm Danforth, Missouri
William Danhof, Michigan
Robert Am Day, California
Dwight Wm Decker, California
Fred Decosimo, Tennessee
Betsy DeVos, Michigan
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Patrick 3. Durkin, New York
James C. Edenfield, Georgia
Lewis Eisenberg, New Jersey
John Etchart, Montana
Dwight H. Evans, Georgia
Thomas Everist, South Dakota
Itchko Ezratti, Florida
Mallory Factor, New York
Pepe Fanjul, Florida
T. Martin Fiorentino Jr., Florida
Peter Fitzgerald, Illinois
Richard Fore, D.C.
, Tillie Fowler, D.C.
Barbara Franklin, Connecticut
Bart Friedman, New York
Lisa Gable, Virginia
Frank Gargano, New York
.Ronald Gidwitz, Illinois
Roy Goodman, New York
Michael Govan, Virginia
lanny Griffith, D.C.
James Grodnick, Alabama f Adele Hall, Kansas
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Mori Hosseini, Florida
Gaylord T. Hughey Jr., Texas
Todd Huston, Indiana
Frank Jao, California
Thomas L. Johnson, Texas - a-
Chip Kahn, D.C. n
Sheldon Uamins, Maryland
Ron Kaufman, D.C.
Hunr Kazmir, PhmDm, New Jersey
John Kelly, Washington
Bobbie 81 Bill Kilberg, Virginia
Richard R. Kilgust, New York
Robert Am Kotick, California
Hersh Kozlov, New Jersey
Edward Dm Kratovil, Connecticut
Henry Kravis, New' York
James Langdon, D.C.
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Rob Leebern, Georgia
Edward- C. Levy Jr., Michigan
Robert Liggett, Michigan
Jeff 6. Love, Texas
Le Ben Lytle, Indiana
James P. MacGilvray, New York
John Mack, New York
John B. Mahaffey, Missouri
Thomas P. Marinis Jr,, Texas
Fernando A. Mateo, New York
Bill McCormick, Oregon
Drayton McLane Ir., Texas
Kevin P. McMahon, Virginia
David Metzner, D.C.
Fred Meyer, Texas
Arlene Mitchell, Alabama
A. Maurice Myers, Texas
Terry Neese, Oklahoma
James Neis, Illinois
Andrea Fischer New man, Virginia
James 6. Nicholson, Michigan
Alan Novak, Pennsylvania
Erle Nye, Texas
Walden W. O'Dell, Ohio
Michael O'Halleran, Illinois
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Tim Pawlenty, Minnesota
Sill Paxon, D.C.
Marshall B. Payne, Texas
Stephen P. Payne, Texas
Don Peay, Utah
Jerry Perenchio, California
Wayne M. Perry, Washington
Stanley Davis Phillips, North Carolina
1. Bryan Pickens, Texas
. Bo Pilgrim, Texas xAlec Poitevint, Georgia Timothy Powers, D.C.
Annie Presley, Missouri % David Pringle, D.C. Paulette L. Pyle, Oregon
John Rakolta Jr., Michigan
Thomas Renyi, New York
J. Christopher Reyes, Illinois x Harold Reynolds, Georgia Duane R. Roberts, California
Corbin 1. Robertson Jr., Texas
Matthew K. Rose, Texas
John Saltsman, Tennessee
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- Frederick Smith, Tennessee
Barbara Sobel, New Jersey
David L. Sokol, Nebraska
Ronald P. Spogli, California
Peter Starrett, California
Nicholas F. Taubrnan, Virginia
Thomas R. Tellefsen, California
William A. Terlato, Illinois
Michael 0, Thompson, Alabama
Jayne Carr Thompson, Illinois
John Thrasher, Florida
3. Mark Tipps, Tennessee
John 8. Tsu, M.D., California
Bob Tuttle, California
Rodolphe M, Vallee, Vermont
Dirk Van Dongen, D.C.
Elliot Vernon, New Jersey
Ann and Ray Wagner, Missouri
George H. Walker, New York
Roger W. Wallace, Texas
Jonathan Ward, Illinois
Ray Washburne, Texas http.//www villagevoice conl/issues/O343/harkavy php M. Keith Weikel, Ph.D., Ohio
Ted Welch, Tennessee -I ;f... Paul F. Welday, Michigan
Robert Whilden Jr., Texas
Edward E. Whitacre Jr., Texas
Brent R. Wilkes, California
George M. Williams, Texas
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Aldona Wos, M.D., North Carolina
Rodger Young, Michigan
Mammen P. Zachariah, M.O., Florida
George C. Zoley, Florida
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