Word: landowing
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Dates: during 1986-1986
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That is the goal of one of Impac's founding members, Nathan Landow, a Bethesda, Md., real estate developer who chairs the party's 1988 convention- site-selection committee. A man fond of speaking in large sums ("We could pledge $6 million to $8 million in a minute"), Landow, 53, looks the part of a big moneyman with his gold Rolex, monogrammed shirt and perpetual tan. More important, Landow delivers: he collected $1.25 million for Walter Mondale...
Several days before Mondale's defeat, Landow and two colleagues on the Democratic candidate's 24-member finance board, Lawyer William Crotty of Daytona Beach, Fla., and Real Estate Developer Thomas Rosenberg of Chicago, discussed keeping the group together. More than fellowship was involved. Michael Berman, the Mondale campaign treasurer, recalls that they wanted more influence on political strategy. For instance, they questioned Mondale's wisdom in promising a tax increase. "This was not a group of flaming liberals," Berman observes...
...financial team eventually joined Impac '88, and other party fund raisers were invited to participate. Impac's members are veteran Democratic centurions, centrist in outlook and combative in style. By shopping for a contender as a group rather than waiting to be wooed two or three at a time, Landow & Co. hope to win more clout in shaping the candidate's campaign. But what they want most of all is a winner...
...susceptible to the 1988 itch have had at least one session with the group (Lee Iacocca declined the invitation, and Jesse Jackson, unpopular with Impac members, has been ignored). Even Mario Cuomo, who has avoided the Iowa-New Hampshire trail so far, found time for a quiet talk with Landow and a breakfast with Impac in Washington...