Full Version: Happy Birthday Senator Bayh!
50 looks good on you!
Actually his birthday isn't until Dec. 26th but the party is tonight.
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Evan Bayh Turns 50
What better way to celebrate your 50th birthday than at a fundraiser with several hundred of your closest friends?
Sen. Evan Bayh is laying the groundwork for a White House run. Above, the Indiana senator speaks at the New Hampshire Democratic Party's Jefferson-Jackson dinner in late October. (AP Photo)
Indiana Sen. Evan Bayh (D) will do just that tomorrow night at a black tie event in his homestate slated to raise $600,000 for his campaign committee. Bayh's father -- former Sen. Birch Bayh -- is one of several guests scheduled to address the crowd.
Bayh's expected fundraising take from the event is among the largest single-night hauls in the history of Indiana politics. So why would a senator who just won reelection with 62 percent of the vote last November and has $7.2 million in the bank (as of the end of September) spend his 50th birthday raising money?
Two words -- presidential politics. Bayh has his eye on the 2008 Democratic nomination and has already spent considerable time this year on the rubber chicken circuit to prove he can belongs in the ring with financial titans like Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) and Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.). Through his leadership political action committee -- All America PAC -- Bayh raised $1.2 million in the first six months of the year, more than the leadership PAC of any other potential 2008 contender other than Sen. Bill Frist (R-Tenn.). Any money banked in his Senate account can be transferred to a presidential committee -- providing a considerable jumpstart to a national bid.
In the next week Bayh will be in Texas, Chicago, New Jersey and New York to raise money. To date in 2005, he has traveled to 22 states.
While Bayh will never match the tens (and possibly hundreds) of millions Hillary Clinton will undoubtedly raise should she run in 2008, he is positioning himself to have plenty of cash on hand in hopes of emerging as the primary alternative to Hillary in the primaries.
Bayh's birthday, by the way, is actually Dec. 26 -- a less convenient day to raise campaign cash.
http://blogs.washingtonpost.com/thefix/200...bayh_turns.html
Chris Cillizza's Politics Blog -- The Fix
washingtonpost.com's Politics Blog
Evan Bayh Turns 50
What better way to celebrate your 50th birthday than at a fundraiser with several hundred of your closest friends?
Sen. Evan Bayh is laying the groundwork for a White House run. Above, the Indiana senator speaks at the New Hampshire Democratic Party's Jefferson-Jackson dinner in late October. (AP Photo)
Indiana Sen. Evan Bayh (D) will do just that tomorrow night at a black tie event in his homestate slated to raise $600,000 for his campaign committee. Bayh's father -- former Sen. Birch Bayh -- is one of several guests scheduled to address the crowd.
Bayh's expected fundraising take from the event is among the largest single-night hauls in the history of Indiana politics. So why would a senator who just won reelection with 62 percent of the vote last November and has $7.2 million in the bank (as of the end of September) spend his 50th birthday raising money?
Two words -- presidential politics. Bayh has his eye on the 2008 Democratic nomination and has already spent considerable time this year on the rubber chicken circuit to prove he can belongs in the ring with financial titans like Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) and Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.). Through his leadership political action committee -- All America PAC -- Bayh raised $1.2 million in the first six months of the year, more than the leadership PAC of any other potential 2008 contender other than Sen. Bill Frist (R-Tenn.). Any money banked in his Senate account can be transferred to a presidential committee -- providing a considerable jumpstart to a national bid.
In the next week Bayh will be in Texas, Chicago, New Jersey and New York to raise money. To date in 2005, he has traveled to 22 states.
While Bayh will never match the tens (and possibly hundreds) of millions Hillary Clinton will undoubtedly raise should she run in 2008, he is positioning himself to have plenty of cash on hand in hopes of emerging as the primary alternative to Hillary in the primaries.
Bayh's birthday, by the way, is actually Dec. 26 -- a less convenient day to raise campaign cash.
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