Sen. Hillary Clinton has released a list of 84 HillRaisersindividuals or couples who have committed to raising $100,000 or more for her presidential campaign. New Yorkers make up a sizable number of the senators major supporters.
Leading the list is Rep. Nita Lowey, D-Westchester. Other HillRaisers are real estate honchos Steve Bing, Ron Herscho, Kathy Sloane, Bill Rudin, Keith Kantrowitz, Jeffrey Lynford, and Elaine and Gerry Schuster. Financiers for Ms. Clinton include Blair Effron, Hassan Nemazee, Alan Patricof, Marc Lasry, Stanley Shuman, and Maureen White and Steven Rattner. Nemazee was Sen. John Kerrys finance chairman in New York in 2004.
Other big donors are former Ambassador Elizabeth Bagley, activist Betsy Cohn, New School Dean Fred Hochberg, environmentalist Jill Iscol and lawyer Marvin Rosen. Business chiefs include John Catsimatidis, Bernard Schwartz, Robert Zimmerman, and Barbaralee Diamonstein and Carl Spielvogel.
Overly excited
Dan Cantor, executive director of the left-wing Working Families Party, is making light of a hospital stay earlier this month, which doctors ordered because of his extremely elevated heart rate. Mr. Cantor was stricken during a morning jog and had to be electroshocked back to a normal heart rhythm. The cause of his ailment is unknown, but he theorizes that he was overly excited by the prospect of concurrent career demises for hawkish World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and presidential adviser Karl Rove.
Moving in, moving on
The New York League of Conservation Voters is seeking a new communications director following Stacy Feldmans move to a consulting firm. See nylcv.org/communicationsjob.
Michael Fragin, a former senior aide to Gov. George Pataki, is leaving the Battery Park City Authority to work as a vice president for government affairs at Paramount BioSciences. He will also serve as managing director of investment firm Paramount BioCapital. Mr. Fragin was Mr. Patakis liaison to the Orthodox Jewish community during the 2002 campaign, and he played the same role in Mayor Mike Bloombergs 2005 bid for re-election.
Erik Engquist contributed.