Clinton Donors Press Dean at Fifth Avenue Bundler Summit

Leading donors to the Clinton and Obama campaigns sat down together last night with DNC chairman Howard Dean at a meeting at the Fifth Avenue apartment of super-bundlers Maureen White and Steven Rattner.

According to the accounts of several attendees, things quickly got contentious when Clinton donors raised the issue of seating the delegates from Florida and Michigan. Dean, who was there to appeal for more fund-raising for the party, found himself on the defensive for not being aggressive enough in pursuing a solution to the problem.

The ostensible purpose of the event, co-hosted by White -- a former DNC finance chair who supports Clinton -- and billionaire Democratic activist George Soros, an Obama backer, was to make sure that...
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