17 Months Before Election Day, One Campaign Aims For $100 Million
Via NPR
The price tag for the most expensive penthouses in Manhattan is just edging past $100 million. That’s also the size of contributions given by conservative businessman David Koch and Hollywood mogul David Geffen to Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, where each philanthropist got naming rights for a building.
And $100 million is what political advisers to Republican Jeb Bush expect to have by June 1 in the bank accounts of Right To Rise SuperPAC — the unlimited-contributions committee designed to help him win the White House.
Much of that money has been raised by Bush himself since January, in a full schedule of private dinners with millionaires and billionaires.
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