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Hooray for Madonna

Posted by Sini

A bitter Robert Novak reports on Madonna's fundraising activities:

Madonna, who has launched her racy new ''Reinvention World Tour,'' is the featured attraction of a fund-raiser by one of the ''527'' Democratic fund-raising committees designed to get around the McCain-Feingold Act's ban on soft money.

Two tickets cost $5,000 for ''an evening with Madonna'' June 14 at the MCI Center in downtown Washington. It is sponsored by the Great Plains Leadership Fund, supposedly ''independent'' but actually a Democratic fund-raising organization.

The fund's ''honorary chair'' is Democratic Sen. Byron L. Dorgan of North Dakota, an advocate of the McCain-Feingold bill. Its headquarters is nowhere near the Great Plains, but is located on Capitol Hill in Washington.

Since John Kerry's $76 million will have to last him from July 30th through November 2nd, the DNC and those pesky 527's may become many people's choice for donations.

So once again, our monthly call for rich musicians out there to do the same. Shut up about your politics (unless you're Bruce Springsteen), fill a few stadiums and send the money to the 527 of your choice.

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