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Although the exact message to voters is still being fashioned, an organized effort to build support is taking shape. Republican advanceman Joe Canzeri has been making sure that crowds at Perot rallies have been plentiful and telegenic. Tim Kraft, who handled Jimmy Carter's field forces in 1976, will deploy 30 operatives across the country. Each coordinator will be charged with setting up offices in three or four states and zeroing in on voters within each congressional district. Most of the $4 million raised by the campaign so far ($3.2 million of it from Perot's pocket) has been spent...
What does the money buy? "Everybody needs a Washington representative to protect their hindsides, even foreign governments," says Senator Paul Laxalt. "So the constituency for these people is the entire free-world economy." Joseph Canzeri, a former Reagan aide who calls himself a Washington "facilitator," notes, "It's a competitive business. There are a lot of wolves out there. But there are a lot of caribou in government...
...often conducted by night, a whole cottage industry has grown up around the party-giving business. Michael Deaver's wife Carolyn is one of half a dozen Washington hostesses who can be hired to set up power parties, which bring top Government officials together with private businessmen. "Facilitator" Canzeri puts on charitable events to burnish corporate images, like a celebrity tennis tournament that drew scores of Washington lobbyists and netted $450,000 for Nancy Reagan's antidrug campaign. Lobbyists, not surprisingly, work hard not just at re-electing Congressmen but also at befriending them. Congressman Tony Coelho of California describes...
...Joseph Canzeri, former White House assistant to Deaver, has formed the Canzeri Co. to do Washington representation...
...night after the Canzeri do, Gray dashed briefly out of his own bash to perform a Drop-By at another affair...