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Article: On the Money Trail, Twice the Challenge; In Debt, Clinton Seeks New Donors While Urging Old Ones to Back Obama
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- The Washington Post
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- July 27, 2008
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Most of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's former campaign advisers
have returned to their old lives, taken extended vacations or moved
on to something new. But not Jonathan Mantz.
Mantz is still Clinton's national finance director, a once-
illustrious job that now carries the responsibility for a grab bag
of thankless chores. He must help retire $25 million in campaign
debt, and is piecing together a schedule of fundraising events --
no picnic in the best of times -- for a candidate who has lost but
who needs new donors because so many of her earlier contributors
gave the legal limit.
And he is in charge of persuading cranky Clinton donors, many of
them still bitter about the way she lost, ...