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featherman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-13-08 03:14 PM
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GOP business man supports Giuliani, Romney...and Clinton
No real point to make here. Story can cut several ways depending on interpretation.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/01/13/politics/washingtonpost/main3705791.shtml

"He will vote for Giuliani, but he is spreading his donations around. This month, he wrote $1,200 checks to Romney's and Giuliani's campaigns.

Because Esshaki thinks there is a good chance they could both sink, he wrote a check to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.), too. She is the only Democrat on the ballot in Michigan because of restrictions placed on the state by the Democratic National Committee. Last summer, Esshaki gave her campaign $1,000, and he went to a donor's banquet and shook her hand. In an 8-by-10 photo leaning atop his cherry file cabinets, Esshaki and Clinton are standing side by side. That image is surrounded by photos of Esshaki grinning with Bush years ago.

Esshaki is hedging his bets this time. He made the decision to give to Clinton when a Democratic business associate called and asked him to write a check to her campaign. He figured he would help a friend and still come out a winner if his team lost.

"I'm a businessman," he said. "Whatever you do ... you need to diversify at some point."
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DJ13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-13-08 03:17 PM
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1. GOP business man supports Giuliani, Romney...and Clinton
Sounds like he knows which Republicans will do him right.

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