Eric Cantor carnival hits Harper’s Magazine
Check out the June issue of Harper’s Magazine (see link here: alas, it’s a pay site) for your Party Time hostess’ analysis of this carnival thrown last summer by Rep. Eric Cantor’s leadership PAC, Every Republican is Crucial (ERIC PAC).
House Minority Whip Cantor earns his clout with his colleagues the old fashioned way–by raising millions of dollars for himself and other GOPers. In the first three months of this year alone, he raised more than $960,000, doubling his take from the comparable first quarter of the last non-election year, 2007, according to Congressional Quarterly. In 2006, when he led the GOP Battleground Program, the party took in some $25 million.
For his carnival shindig last summer, ERIC PAC rented a 15,000-square-foot party space at Nationals Park, a major league baseball stadium. His guests took batting practice, tossed balls at a dunking booth, hopped on the Moon Bounce, and played video games at the Sony PlayStation Pavillion.
Go to Harper’s to read the piece–and stay tuned here for tidbits that didn’t make it in.
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