Roll Call:
The largest independent organization opposing President Bush’s plan to add private accounts to Social Security is struggling to raise dollars from individual contributors, sources say.
Americans United to Protect Social Security has not received a single large-dollar donation from an individual since it was formed in February. Instead, the group is subsisting largely on contributions from organized labor, which has exceeded its expected level of giving, and other liberal interest groups. ...
Regardless of future financial developments, however, dollars for the Social Security campaign have been scarce from the small group of major donors who financed America Coming Together and the Media Fund — two soft-money organizations that raised better than $200 million for the 2004 election.
Most of those givers — including billionaire financier George Soros and insurance company executive Peter Lewis — appear to be proceeding cautiously so far this cycle as they strategize about where best to spend their money.
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