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WNT: Parties Thrown for Political Purpose / Day 3: Political Money Trail 

One Way to Get More Power in Washington Is to Throw a Better Party at the Convention
Jump to full article: ABC News, 2000-08-02
Author: Brian Ross

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The Mardi Gras Street Fair party thrown for Rep. Billy Tauzin, R-La., was held at Philadelphia’s Navy Pier on Tuesday. The invitation came shaped as a ready-to-wear party mask which could conceal the wearer’s identity but revealed the names of all the corporate sponsors listed below, as on the invitation, by the contribution level: . .

Philip Morris . . . UST

The Bandstand party thrown by Rep. Michael Oxley, R-Ohio, and paid for by “secret” contributors was held at the Enterprise Center in Philadelphia and included a musical appearance by Chubby Checker. The record-shaped invitation that admitted the holder into the bash also listed those secret companies, noted below: . . Philip Morris

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