Convention Perks for Top Donors to GOP

Political action committees that have donated at least $15,000 to the Republican National Committee’s Majority Fund: Access to a hospitality suite and chairman’s skybox frequented by Republican officials each night of the convention.

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Members of the RNC Chairman’s Advisory Board who donated at least $5,000: A reception with Republican war veterans, including retired Army Gen. Colin L. Powell, Sens. John McCain and Charles Hagel and Capt. Scott O’Grady, right, the pilot who was shot down and rescued in 1995 during the conflict in the Balkans.

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Donors, raisers of at least $100,000:

Night 1: Dinner with House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert, Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott and other congressional leaders at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Day 2: Breakfast at Philadelphia City Hall with strategists from George W. Bush’s campaign, a fashion show at the Academy of Music and a cocktail reception with GOP members of Congress.

Day 3: Country club golf with senators, congressmen, governors and former Cabinet members.

Final day: Brunch with former Presidents Bush and Ford.

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The attraction is “going to events that are not boring cocktail events in nondescript locations but events that give them a feel for the city and our rich history and our culture.”

-- Martin J. Silverstein, a Philadelphia lawyer and one of George W. Bush’s $100,000-plus fund-raising pioneers who will be host for a dinner at his home for GOP senators and donors who have given at least $10,000 to GOP Senate candidates.

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Donors, raisers of at least $200,000:

Main Event Fight Night--a boxing-themed reception complete with mock fight ring-- that will let donors have drinks, get autographs and take photos with former heavyweight champions Leon and Michael Spinks and current light-heavyweight champion Roy Jones Jr., right.

Donors can sit in a race car on display at the old Naval Shipyard and mingle with NASCAR driver Bobby Labonte and former Washington Redskins football coach Joe Gibbs, right, now a NASCAR team owner. *

Source: Associated Press; Associated Press file photographs