Patty Murray: right back at fundraising
Turns out the squeaker election in 2010 was great practice for shaking the money tree from now to 2012. Now it's fundraising all the time in national politics.
David Brewster
David Brewster founded Crosscut. He is now the director of Folio: The Seattle Athenaeum.
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