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http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?itemid=16496

Bait-and-switch Bush
Like so much else, administration's own 'No Child' gets left behind

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Here's a lovely little item: The Bush campaign has a new category of top fund-raisers. The big deal used to be the "Pioneers," people who had raised $100,000 for Bush. There are already 245 of them, but they're mere pikers. Now come "Rangers," folks who have raised $200,000 -- 156 in this more exclusive category. The new "Mavericks" only have to raise $50,000, but they also have to be under 40 to qualify for this group. Youth power! And they'll all grow up to be Rangers! Anyone who knows the Texas Maverick clan, from whence the word comes, has to wince every time the Bushies say the word.

The Public Campaign Action Fund helpfully sponsored a contest to give better names to the Bush fund-raisers. The finalists are: "The Cash Cowboys," "the Funding Fathers," "Profiteers," "Robber Barons" and "Weapons of Mass Corruption." FYI: One of the Pioneers is Stephen Burke, executive vice president of Comcast, the outfit that plans to buy Disney/ABC, thus creating the world's largest media conglomerate. Bigger than Rupert Murdoch's Fox. Gee, I wonder if they could possibly want something from the Not-Very-Anti-Trust Division of the Justice Department.
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can someone fill us in on the "Texas Maverick clan"