Stephanie Herseth, a self-described conservative Democrat, attended a fundraiser yesterday in New York City. The fundraiser was hosted by Representative Carolyn Maloney, who represents the tony Upper East Side "Silk Stocking" district of Manhattan, the richest congressional district in the nation (the district has the nation's highest average household income, and 70 percent of those households are headed by unmarried adults). The district's zip code -- 10021 -- is the top zip code in the country for political contributions. Woody Allen lives here. Ritzy dinner parties are held here, where the nation's elite gather, who generally have nothing but contempt for the red state values of South Dakota. These folks are the most limousine of limousine liberals.
When Dick Cheney was here in the state on Monday to raise money for John Thune, the local newspaper and television press spent a large amount of time on the fact that people had to pay to see the event. Steve Hildebrand pounced on this. But of course, not a paragraph will be written in the local press about Herseth hobnobbing with her hip fundraiser friends on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.
Nor will there be a paragraph written by the local media about Tom Daschle's most recent fundraiser in Colorado, as reported by the Daschle v. Thune blog.
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