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 Leading donors to the Clinton and Obama campaigns sat down
together
last night with DNC chairman Howard Dean at a meeting at the Fifth
Avenue apartment of super-bundlers Maureen White and Steven Rattner.
According to the accounts of several attendees, things
quickly got
contentious when Clinton donors raised the issue of seating the
delegates from Florida and Michigan. Dean, who was there to appeal for
more fund-raising for the party, found himself on the defensive for not
being aggressive enough in pursuing a solution to the problem.
The ostensible purpose of the event, co-hosted by White
-- a former
DNC finance chair who supports Clinton -- and billionaire Democratic
activist George Soros, an Obama backer, was to make sure that the
Democratic Party had enough money to hire staff and campaign around the
country to defeat John McCain, no matter who the nominee would be. [Mo
Money]
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