{"id":1063,"date":"2004-01-30T11:49:23","date_gmt":"2004-01-30T18:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/new-englander-bush\/"},"modified":"2004-01-30T11:49:23","modified_gmt":"2004-01-30T18:49:23","slug":"new-englander-bush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/new-englander-bush\/","title":{"rendered":"New Englander Bush"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"In a Visit to New Hampshire, Bush Sounds Campaign Themes\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/01\/30\/politics\/campaign\/30BUSH.html?th\">In a Visit to New Hampshire, Bush Sounds Campaign Themes<\/a> By ELISABETH BUMILLER, NYTimes<\/p>\n<p>In the evening, at a lucrative drop-by in Old Greenwich, <i>Conn., the state of his birth<\/i>, Mr. <b>Bush raised <i>$1.1 million<\/i> for his re-election campaign. The checks brought his fund-raising total to more than <i>$130 million<\/i><\/b>, an amount that dwarfs the $40 million raised and mostly spent by the next-biggest fund-raiser of the 2004 campaign, Howard Dean.<\/p>\n<p>The major no-show at the event was Gov. John G. Rowland, <b>a Republican who is enmeshed in a corruption scandal<\/b> over free renovations to his lakeside cottage. Bush campaign officials did not say whether they had asked Mr. Rowland to stay away. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>In Old Greenwich, Mr. Bush was introduced by his cousin Debbie Stapleton, the Connecticut finance chairwoman of his campaign, <b>who happily described the president as a Northeasterner with Ivy League roots<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You may associate him with the Lone Star State, boots and spurs,&#8221; Ms. Stapleton said, &#8220;but I knew him in his earlier Connecticut days of family gatherings, Yale Bulldogs and Old Blue.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><b>Mr. Bush recalled his years at Yale<\/b> as well as members from his class of 1968 who had turned up to see him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a Visit to New Hampshire, Bush Sounds Campaign Themes By ELISABETH BUMILLER, NYTimes In the evening, at a lucrative drop-by in Old Greenwich, Conn., the state of his birth, Mr. Bush raised $1.1 million for his re-election campaign. The checks brought his fund-raising total to more than $130 million, an amount that dwarfs the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/new-englander-bush\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New Englander Bush<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}