ELECTIONS & POLITICS / SERVICE EMPLOYEES (SEIU)
New York Local Gives $1 Million to DCCC
A check believed to be the largest single campaign contribution in post-Watergate federal politics changed hands in N.Y.C. on June 5. House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt (D-Mo.) and top Democratic fundraiser David Jones accepted a $1 million soft money check.  It was made out to the Democratic Cong. Campaign Committee from Dennis Rivera,  Service Employees Int'l Union Local 1199 boss.  [USA Today 6/8/00]

Local 1199 is the same local that led a lobbying effort that spent $15 million in 1999 to have N.Y. State drastically alter its state health program.

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