And while neither Revlon nor its chief executive, Ronald O. Perelman, has given any soft money this cycle, Mr. Perelman has given a total of $7,000 in federally restricted contributions to various candidates.
The price of the Democrats' event has not changed in recent years; the committee invited donors who annually give $15,000 in hard money, the federally restricted contributions to candidates' campaigns.
A Republican fund-raiser said that the Pioneers, who each raised at least $100,000 in restricted contributions to Mr. Bush's campaign, would be crucial in achieving the party's goal of raising more than $175 million in soft money to support Governor Bush and other Republican candidates.
You'd sideline the institutional donations, and restrict contributions to individuals at a threshold no higher than $1,000.
Some consultants donate to political campaigns, according to filings by the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board, raising concern that investment banks are circumventing a 10-year-old rule restricting contributions to elected officials who choose underwriting firms.
Many foresight researchers believe that quantitative simulations have a very restricted contribution in futures studies due to their simplicity and lack of creativity.
Senate Democrats are holding their own fund-raiser July 6-8 on Nantucket, where the new Majority leader, Tom Daschle, and 19 other senators are joining 200 donors and guests, including members of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee's Majority Trust, an elite who donate at least $50,000 in soft money or $20,000 in federally restricted contributions (hard money) to the committee each year.
The three commission Democrats want to revise regulations to bring about clear disclosure of donors and to restrict contributions from foreign sources.
Efforts to restrict contributions by unions have been repeatedly blocked by the Democrats, who traditionally benefit more from labor's largess.
"It's called bribery," said the mayor, who has proposed to tightly restrict contributions from lobbyists and others doing business with the city.
These two cases had restricted Congress's power to limit contributions to political campaigns and independent political expenditures, by both individuals and corporations.
