Business rewards CAFTA 15 (Dem Sellouts)

Business rewards CAFTA 15
By Josephine Hearn

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In the three months since CAFTA passed the House by two votes, business groups and individual companies have held more than a dozen fundraisers for members of the so-called “CAFTA 15” and have provided help selling the trade pact to skeptical constituents.
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Since then, a trio of high-tech interests has been leading an effort to hold fundraisers for Democrats who backed the trade deal.
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Since August, they have held fundraisers for 10 of the 15 — Reps. Melissa Bean (Ill.), Jim Cooper (Tenn.), Norm Dicks (Wash.), Henry Cuellar (Texas), Ruben Hinojosa (Texas), Jim Matheson (Utah), Greg Meeks (N.Y.), Dennis Moore (Kan.), Ike Skelton (Mo.) and Edolphus Towns (N.Y.) — according to sources with knowledge of the endeavor. They have plans to arrange fundraisers for two more — Reps. Bill Jefferson (La.) and Solomon Ortiz (Texas) — before Thanksgiving.

“The word went out, no doubt about it, that now is the time to show the love,” one Democratic lobbyist said.

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