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Dot-com $$$ go to Democrats; Hillary courts new media; Lazio lags.(Hillary Clinton, Rick Lazio)(Brief Article)

Crain's New York Business, September, 2000 by walsh, mark

Two weeks ago, Silicon Alley threw its biggest political bash ever, raising more than $750,000 for Democratic party coffers at a lavish event feting New York Senatorial candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton and her husband. About 150 guests paid $1,000 each to hobnob with five Democratic senators, including Robert Torricelli of New Jersey and Patrick Leahy of Vermont, at a penthouse downtown.

Twenty-five givers of $25,000 ``soft-money'' donations also got to share dinner with the Clintons. Besides boosting the Alley's political profile, the fund-raiser underscored how Democrats have smartly outmaneuvered Republicans in cultivating the city's new cadre of Internet millionaires. Since last year, Democratic party bigwigs such as House Minority Leader Dick...

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