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lawyer at his firm inviting Wyatt to
the event. “He asked me if I cared
to join him and a few others for
lunch with Senator McConnell, to
celebrate. Then he said I’d need to
bring along a check for $2,000, because the senator was already raising money for 1996,” Wyatt told the
magazine in 1995. “He’s serious.”
Alan Simpson, the now-retired
Republican senator from Wyoming, recalled to the Lexington
Herald-Leader in 2006 that when
McConnell asked for money, “his
eyes would shine like diamonds.
He obviously loved it.” A former
aide to Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.)
and Christian Coalition lobbyist
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