'Bundling' contributions pays for Bush campaign

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=676&ncid=676&e=3&u=/usatoday/20031016/ts_usatoday/11905323

Just about every person in South Dakota who has donated $1,000 or more to President Bush (news - web sites)'s re-election campaign is in Tom Everist's pocket PC.


As a result, Everist, a wealthy businessman from Sioux Falls, is well on his way to becoming one of Bush's elite Rangers people who have raised at least $200,000 for the campaign by collecting checks of no more than $2,000 each from their friends, family and business associates. (Related link: Bush's 'Rangers')


"I've met all these people and figured out their potential for strong support for George Bush," Everist says.


Everist, 53, is part of a network of aggressive money raisers around the country that forms the backbone of the Bush money machine. From May 16, when fundraising began, through Sept. 30, the campaign amassed $83.9 million meaning people like Everist have raised close to $25,000 an hour, around the clock, seven days a week.
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I can see it now: "Here, sign this and I'll give a grand to the Bush campaign and you get a nifty deduction."

This really sucks.