Roll Call offers this breaking news report. Two snippets:
- Again, the vast majority of those donations came from a handful of extremely wealthy individuals. Newsweb Corp. President Fred Eychaner contributed $500,000; New York City philanthropists Lewis Cullman ($450,000) and Alida Messinger ($250,000) were also large donors to the group in the period. Neither financier George Soros nor Progressive Corp. Chairman Peter Lewis gave to ACT between Jan. 1 and March 31. The two combined to donate $8 million in 2003.
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The Democratic groups received another piece of good news Wednesday when the FEC commissioners signaled that they were unlikely to take any action that could potentially curb the 527s