Reply #10: Blackwell raises cash [View All]

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Sunday, April 10, 2005
SABRINA EATON

Ohio Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell took his gubernatorial aspirations on the road this April Fool's Day with a fund- raiser at the City Club in Washington, D.C., that netted at least $35,000.

GOP luminaries listed on his event's fund-raising committee included former Reagan administration Cabinet secretaries William J. Bennett, James C. Miller and Edwin Meese; Sen. Sam Brownback of Kansas; Grover Norquist of Americans for Tax Reform; the Heritage Foundation's Paul Weyrich; and David Keene of the American Conservative Union.

Blackwell said the roster shows he is backed by the national con servative community, and it's "not only luminaries, but folks that put troops on the ground with networks in Ohio."

Blackwell and his spokesman, Gene Pierce, said not all of the listed luminaries appeared, although former Housing and Urban Development Secretary and presidential candidate Jack Kemp attended. Blackwell served as a HUD undersecretary under Kemp...



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