Go to a small town, exploit their fears of 9/11, run a flag up their ass and have Bush come out and preach while singing from the re-election hymn. It's the Sam Walton style strategy for raising millions of campaign dollars (all while ruining the local businesses and "mainstreet" USA).

Bush's Brigadier of Bucks
How Jack Oliver, a little-known 34-year-old from Missouri, is managing the most formidable cash machine in American political history
By MATTHEW COOPER AND MICHAEL WEISSKOPF

Monday, Jun. 30, 2003
George Bush could not have picked a better place to demonstrate the reach of his "shock and awe" money campaign. Headlining a luncheon at the Airport Marriott in the liberal Democratic bastion of San Francisco last Friday, the President politely thanked his supporters for their "hard-earned dollars" and walked away $1.6 million richer. But the backroom brigadier of Bush's financial blitz was quietly working the velvet rope at the ballroom's VIP section. Jack Oliver, a little-known 34-year-old from Missouri, is the man largely responsible for what is being heralded as the most formidable money machine in modern political history...




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