More than 100 plan to attend Reno fundraiser for Howard Dean

[w4rma]

Associated Press

Local backers of Democratic presidential hopeful Howard Dean said more than 100 people were expected at a Reno fund-raiser Saturday night to help raise $5,000 for his campaign.

At least 140 people committed to the $25-a-plate event featuring wine and deserts, said Brian Hutchinson, the head of Students for Dean at the University of Nevada, Reno.

The event at Hutchinson's home was believed to be the first formal fund-raiser in northern Nevada this year for any of the nine Democratic candidates. Dean, the governor of Vermont, is scheduled to attend a fund-raiser in Las Vegas on Oct. 28.

"There's a lot of speculation that Nevada is going to be a battleground state,"Hutchinson said Saturday.

"We want to send a message to the Dean campaign, other Democrats in Nevada and finally to Republicans in Nevada that there is a Dean presence here,"he said.

Hutchinson said he's serving as a co-coordinator of a loosely knit group of about 200 people calling themselves "Northern Nevada for Dean."
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Bush won 50 percent of the vote in Nevada in 2000. Democrat Al Gore took 46 percent, Ralph Nader took 2 percent, and the rest were scattered among minor candidates.
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[mot78]

1. I think Nevada is in play next year

I'm suprised that we only lost it by 4%.

[Cha]

2. That's funny...I was thinking Janet Reno!

Good! I would imagine Nevada is in play for Dems in 2004 as well as any state that is getting Sucked Down by the bush vacumn.

[Kool Kitty]

3. That's what I thought. I said, dang-

good for Janet.