JUSIPER
Sunday, October 14, 2007
Novak: Buy off GOP congressmen at rock bottom prices!
Ha:
Republican Rep. Tom Reynolds, who nearly lost his upstate New York district in 2006, is holding a Washington fund-raiser Oct. 15 that costs as little as $50 to attend. That unusually low figure reflects generally declining prices in a deteriorating Republican financial climate.
Reynolds' invitation asks supporters to gather ''behind the bar at the bottom of the stairs'' at McFadden's Saloon in Washington to ''tailgate with Tom'' and watch the Buffalo-Toronto hockey game.
While chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee for the 2006 election cycle, Reynolds faced an unusually strong challenge for his seat and won with 52 percent of the vote. He left the committee $16 million in debt after losing control of the House.
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