Says Mercer Bullard, an Ole Miss law professor who heads Fund Democracy, a reformist group: "People would be shocked at the fees they're paying, and some sales wouldn't happen".
Moreover, this per-head funding gap has narrowed during this parliament.
A few days later, he would get a call from the senator asking him to attend a thousand-dollar-a-head fund-raiser.
Six months later, she allowed him to host a $3,000-per-head fund-raiser for her at his Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach.
So good, in fact, that Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg is opening his Upper East Side town house on Thursday for a $1,000-a-head fund-raiser for Mayor Jerramiah T. Healy of Jersey City.
In June, Obama spent an evening attending a successful forty-thousand-dollar-a-head fund-raiser, along with Bill Clinton, in the Upper East Side town house of Marc Lasry, the billionaire C.E.O. of Avenue Capital Group.
Mr. Schultz, a conservative Republican turned liberal Democrat, made the remarks on Friday while revving up a group of Obama supporters at a $100-a-head fund-raiser at the North Dakota Democratic Party's convention in Grand Forks.
With his comprehensive knowledge of how performing arts institutions work, Mr. Mortier must understand that in America the general director of an opera company is the de facto head fund-raiser.
The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee has postponed a $1,000-a-head fund-raising event scheduled for Monday in Manhattan at which Martha Stewart was to serve as host, a spokesman for the committee said.
Hand out fertiliser and mosquito bednets, build schools and health centres, and you could end poverty in five years – all for $120 $733) a head, funded by an increase in foreign aid.
