Bush: To raise $23 million for GOP House and Senate campaigns at Monday funder. Country music star Gretchen Wilson to sing at GOP dinner. President Bush headlines a big cattle call of a fundraiser....but it will raise, to paraphrase the president, ``a heck of a lot'' of money. I've been to these events before and will try to cover this evening. To raise this kind of money, the GOP committees booked the D.C. convention center for a massive dinner party. Hardly intimate, but gives the out-of-towners bragging rights about having dinner with the president.
Almost every GOP member of Congress attends this dinner, heavily populated by corporate lobbyists.
http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2006/06/bush_4.html
