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Documenting the Political Partying Circuit
From the early hours of the morning until late in the evening, politicians are partying. Sunlight's PARTY TIME can help you find out who is partying, where and when.

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Partytime leadership PACs • POSTED - 06.11.10 BY Keenan Steiner

Weekend Fundraisoirees in New York, D.C. and Maryland

Political fundraisers happening this weekend:

* Rep. Joseph Crowley of New York’s 7th Congressional District, hosts his “I Love NY Weekend” at the chic Standard Hotel, which sits above New York City’s High Line, an old elevated rail-turned park in the Meatpacking District. The weekend will cost PACs $5,000 while individual donors can come along for $2,400.

* At DNC Headquarters on Sunday, a throng of Democrats and lobbyists are scheduled to join Kentucky’s 3rd District Congressman John Yarmuth for his 4th Annual Bourbon & Barbecue. According to the invitation, attendees can sample Kentucky bourbons and southern-style barbecue from Yarmuth family-owned Sonny’s Real Pit Bar-B-Q.

Majority Whip Jim Clyburn, D-S.C., will be on hand, along with Lyndon Boozer, a lobbyist with AT&T who has been billed as a host on at least five invitations to Democratic fundraisers this year. PAC tickets range from $1,000 to $5,000 while individuals can play host for $2,400.

Yarmuth is the favorite to win in November, though his seat is in play, according to the Cook Political Report. He faces Republican anti-establishment pick and National Air Guard veteran Todd Lally.

* For $2,500, PACs can send a golfer to tee off at The Country Club at Woodmore in Mitchellville, MD, to benefit The Committee for the Preservation of Capitalism, Charles Boustany’s Leadership PAC. Boustany, R-La., a former surgeon and big supporter of market-based reforms to the health care system, has received over $1 million from health professionals over his career. This year, about a third of donations to Boustany’s PAC have come from the health care industry.

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Democratic convention • POSTED - 08.24.08 BY Nancy Watzman

Game of golf, anyone?

In the “why not play some golf with lobbyists while we’re all here,” department, Rep. Joe Baca (D-CA) played golf today with supporters at Colorado’s Buffalo Run Golf Course.

One of the hosts was Lyndon Boozer, a lobbyist for AT&T. Boozer and Baca are avid golf players. Golf Digest included them both in its 2008 list of the top 200 “senators, representatives, appointed officials, lobbyists and other power brokers [representing] a Washington golf scene still vibrant despite post-Abramoff limits on golf as entertainment.” (Baca likes to play golf while fundraising, thus this April fundraiser at a Miami golf resort.)

In 2006, Baca was one of 26 House Democrats who sent a letter to the Federal Communications Commission “praising AT&T for its commitment” to win approval for the AT&T – Bellsouth merger, according to Technology Daily.

The group was scheduled to move on to a reception at the Oceanaire Seafood Room in downtown Denver from 5 to 7:30 p.m., ending just in time for folks to scoot over to the Blue Dog reception – Baca is a blue dog –at 8:00 pm sponsored in part by—AT&T.

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Beneficiary: congressional candidate, lawmaker, or entity which collects funds raised at party

Host: person who is hosting party-often, but not always, a registered federal lobbyist

Venue Name: where the party is

Entertainment Type: type of gathering, such as "breakfast," "ski trip," "bowling"

Other Lawmakers Mentioned: lawmakers mentioned on invitation who are used as a draw for the event

Sunlight's Party Time is a project to track parties for members of Congress or congressional candidates that happen all year round in Washington, D.C. and beyond. (read more)

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