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Dean falls flat in the Hamptons (Plutocrats stay away from Howard-hosted fund-raiser.)
New York Magazine ^ | July 18-25 | Greg Sargent

Posted on 07/18/2005 2:07:08 PM PDT by nickcarraway

Where are the Hamptons Deaniacs? Some of New York’s wealthiest Dem contributors were no-shows at a $5,000-per-couple Amagansett DNC fund-raiser Howard Dean hosted at the home of Margo and Robert Alexander on July 9—prompting worries that the donor elite are shutting their wallets to protest Dean’s shoot-from-the-lip party leadership. Sources say big-shot supporters Hassan Nemazee, Robert Zimmerman, Carl Spielvogel, and Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel played hooky. “Dean grew up in the Hamptons, and it was his first time back as chair, so he should have filled the room,” concedes a DNC official. “DNC staffers were really disappointed. It spoke to the lack of confidence in Dean among the donor leadership.” DNC spokesperson Karen Finney responds, “It was wonderfully successful and gave the governor a chance to really listen to what people had to say. Unfortunately, due to other plans, those folks couldn’t attend."—


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: bushhaters; chairmandean; dean; dirtyrats; dnc; fundraiser; fundraising; hamptons; howardhotelmanager; newyork; rats; sorelosers
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1 posted on 07/18/2005 2:07:09 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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"Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel"


Say that name three times fast!


2 posted on 07/18/2005 2:08:45 PM PDT by Cecily
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To: nickcarraway

Damn, I was hoping the money would be wasted!


3 posted on 07/18/2005 2:08:59 PM PDT by marvlus
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To: nickcarraway

Now if he had this at a hotel I'm sure he would have had a full house.


4 posted on 07/18/2005 2:09:32 PM PDT by thoughtomator (For all you love to survive, Islam must be destroyed.)
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5 posted on 07/18/2005 2:10:27 PM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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“It was wonderfully successful and gave the governor a chance to really listen to what people had to say."

One does tend to get the "chance to really listen" when you're nearly one-to-one, LOL.


6 posted on 07/18/2005 2:11:14 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry (Esse Quam Videre)
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To: Cecily

I think she just goes by Barbara Lee. But I thought she lived on the other coast.


7 posted on 07/18/2005 2:11:37 PM PDT by NathanBookman
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To: nickcarraway

When I think about the DNC these days, and read pieces like this and today's posted article about the Dems' fundraising falling far behind the Republicans' I picture the dark tower collapsing at the end of Return of the King, to Howard Shore's triumphant score.


8 posted on 07/18/2005 2:12:50 PM PDT by Dr.Hilarious ("My wife was not a clandestine officer the day that Bob Novak blew her identity."-Joe W)
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LOL

I bet the reason they didn't show up is because they have been told to give their money directly to Hillary...

I seem to remember a thread a few days ago, that was about how FAST and how MUCH money that Hillary has "raised" in the last couple of months....


9 posted on 07/18/2005 2:12:56 PM PDT by Txsleuth (Mark Levin for Supreme Court Justice)
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To: martin_fierro

I was playing HALO2 with my boys the other day, when one of the marines in the game was attacked by an alien. I kid you not, but the Marine screamed the Howard Dean screem. AIIIEEYYYYYEEAAGGHHHH!!!!!! They put the sound from the scream into the game. My son and I (also a freeper) died laughing at their ingenuity.


10 posted on 07/18/2005 2:13:52 PM PDT by ImaGraftedBranch (Imagine 40,000,000 dead babies in a pile reaching to the sky. Think God hasn't noticed?)
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Carl Spielvogel is on the board of one of the world's largest investment funds and his wife is maybe the most prominent activists/fundraisers in the Hamptons.

This is a huge disappointment for the Bikepathian Prophet.

11 posted on 07/18/2005 2:14:17 PM PDT by wideawake (God bless our brave troops and their Commander in Chief)
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Robert Zimmerman

Bob Zimmerman?
Do you mean the one and only Shabtai Zisel ben Avraham v'Rachel Riva?


12 posted on 07/18/2005 2:14:54 PM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: NathanBookman

It's Barbaralee. And she maintains residences on both coasts, dahhling.


13 posted on 07/18/2005 2:16:41 PM PDT by wideawake (God bless our brave troops and their Commander in Chief)
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Why doesn't Dean just take is perscriptions forms with him and write one ot more for each person with a medical problem who writes a check? He can't have an ethical problem with that. He doesn't have an ethical problem with anything, he's a dem.


14 posted on 07/18/2005 2:17:52 PM PDT by Tacis ("Democrats - The Party of Traitors, Treachery and Treason!")
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That's OK DNC. The grassroots will come through for you! They love Dean. You don't need them rich elitist types. Dean's doing just fine. :)
15 posted on 07/18/2005 2:18:30 PM PDT by theDentist (The Dems have put all their eggs in one basket-case: Howard "Belltower" Dean.)
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Strategic error...... he should have held it in August when everybody is there..


16 posted on 07/18/2005 2:18:52 PM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P . The wild winds of fortune will carry us onward)
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To: Izzy Dunne
I'm not Jewish, but friends and business associates are, so I've been to Temple for weddings, funerals, Bar Mitzvahs and Bat Mitzvahs... which leads me to this question: what the heck is that square thing growing out of his forehead, like the monolith from 2001: A Space Odyssey?
17 posted on 07/18/2005 2:20:46 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry (Esse Quam Videre)
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To: Txsleuth
You nailed it:

I bet the reason they didn't show up is because they have been told to give their money directly to Hillary...

18 posted on 07/18/2005 2:20:51 PM PDT by GOPJ (Phil Donahue "has made the world safe for emotion masquerading as thought."-BOZELL III)
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Ain't it great!

19 posted on 07/18/2005 2:20:51 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
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To: Cecily
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"Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel""


20 posted on 07/18/2005 2:22:06 PM PDT by pke
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