Business Group Chief Steers Funds to Dodd
- By Kate Ackley
- Roll Call Staff
- Sept. 27, 2007, Midnight
Steve Bartlett, the Republican chief executive of the Financial Services Roundtable, has launched an unprecedented fundraising effort to steer money to the presidential campaign of long-shot candidate Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.). In the process, Bartlett — whose group is hosting a fundraiser for Dodd this evening at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Washington, D.C. — has done more than shake money from his membership tree; he has upset many of his members, according to five member-company sources who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
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