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"Hassan Nemazee was working the phone up until just a few hours before Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton swept into his elegant apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan on Monday evening.
Mr. Nemazee had only been given two weeks’ notice to put together a fund-raiser for Senator Barack Obama’s presidential campaign featuring Mrs. Clinton, and was hunting for hefty checks at an inauspicious time, in the middle of a Wall Street meltdown. He was also plying what has been at times an exceedingly difficult population: former supporters of Mrs. Clinton.
Anyone who happened to drop by Mr. Nemazee’s office overlooking Central Park in the last two weeks would have caught a glimpse of the delicate art of persuasion in big-money political fund-raising.
"I’m calling because I’m hosting a dinner with Hillary Clinton but it’s for the Obama campaign," Mr. Nemazee, 58, said in a typical call to a former Clinton donor. "I was hoping I could convince you and your wife to attend and be supportive.""
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/24/us/politics/24donor.html?hp
""Would it would been more to Obama's advantage to have engaged more proactively earlier with President Clinton? Sure," said former Clinton finance chair and Obama fund-raiser Hassan Nemazee. "But the fact that they are getting engaged now, and that Hillary is doing everything asked of her and campaigning wherever asked, is of tremendous value to the Obama campaign."
..."I have heard it directly," said Nemazee. "People from the Obama campaign say the last thing we want to do is be attacking and elevating Governor [Sarah] Palin. This is not about her. They say that to both Obama and Clinton people.""
http://www.observer.com/2008/politics/obama-and-clinton-make-sort-why-now
"Hillary is set to do what is likely to be her only high-dollar fundraiser for Obama before the election -- an intimate dinner in Manhattan where she's planning to raise at least $500,000 for the Illinois Senator's presidential run from some of the party's wealthiest donors.
The dinner will take place on September 22nd, at the Upper East Side home of her campaign's finance chairman, Hassan Nemazee, who is one of the most prolific fundraisers in the Democratic Party.
"This is the only dinner that Hillary is doing in New York," Nemazee tells me in confirming the plans. "It's probably the only opportunity to have an intimate dinner with Senator Clinton on behalf of the Obama campaign."
Couples will pay $28,500 each to attend, and the cash will go to the Democratic National Committee's Victory fund to elect Obama.
Asked if he'd lined up enough commitments to achieve the dinner's goal, Nemazee said: "I wouldn't be doing this if I didn't have commitments."
The effort to tap Hillary as a fundraising draw comes as Obama's finance team is stepping up the pressure on Democratic fundraisers to bring in more money as the full weight of Obama's decision to forego public financing becomes apparent."
http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/09/hillary_to_raise_half_a_millio.php
"Former Clinton bundlers have their hopes set on a post-convention adjustment, when more money will flow to Obama, but also to Clinton to help her pay down her massive debt.
"You've seen the numbers on the donor side, which are nowhere near the potential that could be achieved from the Clinton side," said Hassan Nemazee, Clinton's former national finance co-chairman and now a fundraiser for Obama.
Even Heckler has had to coax reluctant Clinton donors along. His goal is to enlist many of the two dozen Florida fundraisers who each raised $100,000 for Clinton to do the same for Obama.
"The first time we called the list it was tough, the second time was tough, but we've gotten some commitments," he said between bites of an egg-white omelet near Clinton's convention hotel. "Right now we have five or six helping. After the convention we hope to have many more."
Obama can't afford a rift.
Clinton raised more than $210 million in contributions in her failed run for the Democratic nomination. That's a sizable donor base that Obama can now tap.
And despite his prodigious fundraising — nearly $380 million by the end of July — Obama has a large task ahead.
He has chosen to be the first post-Watergate presidential candidate to forgo public funds for the general election, bypassing an $84 million grant for the fall campaign in anticipation of raising far more.
Republican rival John McCain has decided to accept the public money. But he also is getting help from a well-financed Republican National Committee.
Some Democratic fundraisers calculate that that means Obama needs to raise an average of $80 million a month and that the Democratic National Committee needs to raise an average of about $50 million a month between now and the Nov. 4 election.
"We have a greater challenge," Nemazee said over a cola at the Ritz Carlton, the hotel reserved for many Obama fundraisers.
Nemazee himself already has raised half a million dollars for Obama. He is holding a fundraiser next month with Clinton at his home that is expected to raise another half million for the Democratic nominee.
Former Clinton money bundlers now on board with Obama are hoping the unity theme of the convention opens up the financial spigot.
With his Thursday night acceptance speech, Nemazee said he expects Obama to "indicate that unity is not just a one-way street but a two-way street and enable certain people that have not yet been able to become involved to become more fully engaged.""
http://www.wtopnews.com/?nid=213&sid=1468022
"At a restaurant thank-you reception at lunchtime at the Brown Palace Hotel in downtown Denver today, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton paid homage to her supporters - and said she'd do it all again, despite the outcome, according to an attendee.
After an introduction by her husband, Clinton mused about whether she would have relived the past few months even knowing how it ended, she replied, according to a source, "In a New York minute."
On hand was a mix o fundraisers - Hassan Nemazee, Maureen White, Robert Zimmerman - and elected officials like Nita Lowey and Jerrold Nadler.
Clinton focused strongly on the need to elect Sen. Barack Obama, the source said, adding she hit the Democratic-platform-type themes she did in her convention speech."
http://www.nypost.com/seven/08272008/news/nationalnews/hillary_clinton_pays_honors_supporters_126364.htm
"But it appears that much of that effort has fallen short, said former Clinton supporters who have decided to begin raising money for Mr. Obama.
"I believe to date I’m a minority," said Hassan Nemazee, a former national finance chairman for the Clinton campaign who said he had raised more than $500,000 for Mr. Obama in the last few months. "I still firmly believe there is a tremendous amount of untapped resources that can be tapped if the Obama campaign pro-actively engages people in the Clinton world.""
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/27/us/politics/27donors.html
"Two more longtime Clinton fundraisers -- Mark Aronchick and Hassan Nemazee -- were adamant that, while they are making early exits, it should not be viewed as a snub or symbolic gesture.
Aronchick said his daughter is getting married Sunday and he needs to get back to Philadelphia, where he raised big money for Clinton, and New York financier Nemazee has an overseas business trip he could not move.
"Don't read anything into it," Nemazee said. "There are people who may not want to stay, but I am not in that category.""
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/08/25/clinton_adviser_to_skip_town_b.html
"Look, we all knew this was coming. Once Obama vanquished Hillary Clinton, it was inevitable that his campaign would start roping in the Clinton moneymen for the fall confrontation with McCain. Among those snagged by Obama were Iranian millionaire and former Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee chairman Hassan Nemazee, venture capitalist Alan Patricof and the touchingly plugged-in Wall Street power couple Maureen White (First Boston) and Steven Rattner (Morgan Stanley).”
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/22210615/candidates_for_sale/4
"New York, NY - "Running for public office is a daunting task. Being successful often requires running at the right time and in the right place. Darius Shahinfar is a candidate running at the right time and in the right place, and has a real opportunity to be the first Iranian American to be elected to the U.S. Congress."
These where the words of Mr. Hassan Nemazee, IAPAC Board member and national finance chair for Hillary Clinton, at an August 7th New York City reception hosted by Tamilla and Newsha Ghodsi in support of Shahinfar’s campaign for U.S. Congress. Nemazee urged the participants to seize the opportunity and help elect Shahinfar by financially supporting his campaign. "He is within striking distance of making history." ”
http://www.iranianamericanpac.org/news/detail.php?str=mD3d2VqI7q3H5G9N
“Hillary Clinton held a private meeting for supporters last night at Cipriani's, thanking them for their help during the primary.
Introduced by Senator Chuck Schumer, who spoke about local issues in Mount Vernon and Westchester County, Clinton addressed key supporters, including Hassan Nemazee, Alan Patricof, and Fred Hochberg, and elected officials like Tom DiNapoli and Tom Suozzi.
According to one of the attendees, Clinton did not discuss her future plans.
The event wasn't explicitly a fund-raiser, but at one point Patricof asked guests, once again, to work to help Clinton erase her campaign debt.”
http://www.observer.com/2008/politics/clinton-thanks-backers-private-cipriani-party
"Mr. Kramer maintained friendly relations with his friends in Hillaryland, even placing friendly wagers on the Pennsylvania primary.
“It was a $100 bet that we would win by ten points,” said Mr. Nemazee. “I called him up that night and said, ‘We’ve won by 10 points.’ It was announced on CNN and Fox and everybody that we won by ten. The next day there was an envelope with 100 dollars cash in my office. And a day later I get a call from Orin: ‘I can’t believe you Clinton people. This is why we hate you so much. You win by 9.4 percent and instead of rounding it down to nine percent, you round it up to ten and take our hard-earned money.’”
Mr. Nemazee returned the hundred dollars."
http://www.observer.com/2008/politics/king-obamasaurs
"The investment banker Hassan Nemazee, Sen. Clinton's national finance chairman, said he has encouraged his counterparts in the Obama camp to raise funds to pay off Sen. Clinton's debt, a move that would make it easier for him to ask his network to donate to Sen. Obama. "There is a huge pool of untapped capital that exists within the Hillary Clinton realm of supporters," he said, noting that he raised $400,000 for Sen. Obama in one week in July, donations that the campaign won't report to the government until next month."
http://sec.online.wsj.com/article/SB121668937836772311.html?mod=todays_europe_page_one
"Overall, the McCain campaign has estimated that it and Republican Party committees will have $400 million to spend on the presidential election in the months before the November election.
To surpass that level of spending, Obama and the Democratic Party will have to raise about $100 million a month.
That task is making some Democrats anxious.
"You don't want to be in a situation at the critical time in September and October when you have not met your budget expectations," said Hassan Nemazee, who was Hillary Rodham Clinton's national financial co-chair and is now raising money for Obama and the DNC. "You're going to find yourself between a rock and hard place in terms of meeting your numbers.""
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2008056511_apobamamoney.html
"One of Hillary Clinton’s national finance chairmen said it’s still too early to say how much Barack Obama has helped his former rival’s efforts to retire her campaign debt. But Democratic moneyman Hassan Nemazee said the more Obama gets for Clinton, the easier it will be to raise money for his own campaign.
“I would like to see what the results are before I jump to conclusions whether the results are greater or less than expected,” Nemazee told The Examiner.
But he said the two Obama fundraisers now helping Clinton know Obama is the real beneficiary.
“I’m not saying there is a quid pro quo, I will just simply say it is human nature,” Nemazee said. “If someone helps you, you are significantly more inclined to help them. And the reverse is true as well.”"
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http://www.examiner.com/a-1485418~Obama_may_benefit_from_helping_erase_Clinton_debt.html
"Hillary Clinton's campaign had the largest stable of bundlers, and after some tortured negotiations, they are now raising big money for Obama.
When I asked him before an Obama event on Monday about the role of bundlers in the campaign, Clinton (and now Obama) donor Hassan Nemazee responded: "The rumor of the demise of the Neanderthal was premature.""
http://www.observer.com/2008/politics/maybe-obama-needs-big-money-dems-after-all
"Obama arrived at the Grand Hyatt a few minutes before 7 p.m. with Caroline Kennedy and then met with about 75 donors, including major Clinton bundlers such as Steven Rattner, Hassan Nemazee, Robert Zimmerman, Patricof, Fred Hochberg, and their Obama counterparts such as Orin Kramer and Jeh Johnson. Obama made no remarks to the group as a whole, but spoke to donors individually on a photo line.
Some of the former Clinton campaign donors in the room, such as Nemazee and Hochberg, had already raised six figures for the candidate. In less than ten days, Nemazee had, at the behest of Obama finance chair Penny Pritzker, bundled commitments for $200,000 for the evening’s event, and another $250,000 for an event in Orange County on Sunday.
Asked if the Obama campaign appreciated his efforts, Nemazee said "In the world I operate in, you produce and people show their appreciation," he said. "I have no doubt the people in the Obama world appreciate what people in the Clinton world are doing."
When asked how much the Obama donors would raise for Clinton, Nemazee said he was "sure the number would be a respectable number."
"I've read these articles in the paper and I think everybody should just take a deep breath," said Mr. Nemazee, saying that the Clinton donors would raise substantial amounts for Obama and expressing confidence that the Obama people would come through for Clinton. "Let's give them a chance to do what they can do on debt relief.""
http://www.observer.com/2008/politics/take-two-obama-pitches-hillary-eventually
June 25, 2008
"Clinton donors had been making a clear case to Obama that he needed to use his fundraising resources to help her get out of the red. Her national finance co-chair, Hassan Nemazee, told The Associated Press last week that Clinton would be freer to campaign for Obama and raise money for him if she did not have to concentrate on retiring her debt.
Moreover, Nemazee said, it would be easier for Clinton fundraisers who wanted to help Obama to be able to tell former Clinton donors, "Look what Senator Obama has done for Senator Clinton.""
http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/election2008/2008-06-24-obama-clinton-debt_N.htm
June 24, 2008
""It would be most productive to have her fully engaged in raising money for Sen. Obama and campaigning on his behalf rather than having to spend her time doing events devoted to retiring her debts over the coming months," said Hassan Nemazee, Clinton's national finance chairman. He said no agreement had been reached."
http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/election2008/2008-06-24-clinton_N.htm
June 21, 2008
"It's far more productive for Obama to have Hillary 100% focused and engaged on campaigning and raising money for him in the fall rather than having to do fundraisers at the same time to retire her debt," said Hassan Nemazee, a Clinton national finance chairman."
http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/election2008/2008-06-20-candidatefundraising_N.htm
June 18, 2008
"The Obama campaign has reached out to the Clinton people," said Hassan Nemazee, Clinton's national finance co-chairman. "I think this is a process that is being undertaken and hopefully we will be in a position to assimilate the Clinton fundraising operation and the Obama fundraising operation together in the near future."
"The reality is that we're two weeks from the day that the last primary was held," he added. "It takes a little while for staff to talk to each other, for lay organizations to talk to one another. It's taken a while to get the candidates available."
http://wtop.com/?nid=213&pid=0&sid=1423778&page=1
June 13, 2008
"Four years ago, John Kerry clinched the Democratic nomination in early March. This year, "the candidate really only has the months of June, July and August to raise money" before the intense fall campaigning, said Nemazee, who was Kerry's New York finance chairman in 2004."
http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/election2008/2008-06-12-fundraisers_N.ht
June 12, 2008
"Hoping to allay some of the continuing ill will, Mr. Plouffe is scheduled to meet with members of Mrs. Clinton’s New York finance operation on Thursday afternoon at a Midtown Manhattan law office.
Two meetings are scheduled, an initial smaller gathering to which some of the Clinton fund-raising heavyweights have been invited, including Hassan Nemazee, Alan Patricof and Maureen White, and then a larger forum that will include others on Mrs. Clinton’s New York finance committee."
http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/election2008/2008-06-12-fundraisers_N.htm
An Interview with Hassan Nemazee, Co-chair, Carret Asset Management Group LLC, Co-chair, Brean Murray, Carret & Co., LLC, and Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Nemazee Capital Corporation, New York.
http://www.leadersmag.com/issues/2006.3_Jul/2006.3Jul.html
June 5, 2008
"Clinton finance chair Hassan Nemazee said Obama's team had been appropriately in contact.
"They have been extremely appropriate in being non-aggressive and allowing the process to play itself through, and that, in and of itself, is helpful in the process," he said.
Coincidentally, tomorrow night Nemazee will have dinner with one of his Obama finance counterparts.
The Obama fundraiser bet Nemazee that Clinton's camp would not be able to raise $25 million dollars in the month of February. They raised $35 million."
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Vote2008/Story?id=4996520&page=2
June 5, 2008
"In a call to her finance team members, Clinton voiced a "desire to work as hard as she could on behalf of Senator Obama and the Democratic Party to make sure we have a Democrat elected in the fall and that she would do whatever she could," her national finance co-chairman, Hassan Nemazee, said. "She said she would work with Senator Obama in ensuring that her finance people were integrated as efficiently and as effectively as they can be.""
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/05/AR2008060500992.html
June 5, 2008
"Earlier this week, Clinton's national finance chairman, Hassan Nemazee, said he was also pushing an Obama-Clinton ticket, claiming that together they would be able to raise $200 million to $250 million for the general election."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/05/AR2008060503432.html
June 4, 2008
"Clinton's national finance chairman, Hassan Nemazee, said he was also pushing an Obama-Clinton ticket, claiming that together they would be able to raise $200 million to $250 million for the general election."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/03/AR2008060301294.html
June 4, 2008
"Hassan Nemazee, a national finance chairman for the Clinton campaign, said that if Mr. Obama won the nomination, most of Mrs. Clinton’s top 300 to 400 fund-raisers would support him. But Mr. Nemazee said that how much money they could bring in would depend on how deeply the Obama campaign integrated the two operations, what kind of fund-raising events were held and whether Mrs. Clinton ended up on the ticket as the vice-presidential nominee.
“It would be important how much Senator Obama and his top advisers in Chicago reached out, and how welcome our people felt,” Mr. Nemazee said.""
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/04/us/politics/04donate.html?hp
June 3, 2008
“He entertained a select group of about 40 dinner guests late into the rainy night, including Senator Chuck Schumer, actor Peter Boyle, Christie Brinkley and Peter Cook, DNC Committeeman Robert Zimmerman of Southampton, John Syckes of VH-1 television, Andrew Tobias, a DNC Financial expert, and Hassan Nemazee, Kerry's confidante.”
http://www.hamptons.com/detail.ihtml?id=324&apid=475&sid=6&cid=53&arc=1
“Hassan Nemazee, a finance co-chair for the Clinton campaign and longtime DNC fundraiser, said that without a nominee, the party's ability to raise money is severely limited."
"People are not going to give until that candidate puts in place an apparatus that allows for people to feel as though there is an institutional memory in place, so they know someone will remember they gave the money," he said.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/24/AR2008052401597.html
May 12, 2008
“According to one Obama bundler, “there is a great sense of delicacy and sensitivity” in how the campaign approaches Clinton finance chairs Hassan Nemazee and Alan Patricof and major Clinton fund-raisers Blair Effron, Steven Rattner and Maureen White.”
http://www.observer.com/2008/axelrods-targeted-push-clinton-donors
May 8, 2008
“"There is only one instance that I know of in which a Clinton donor went over to the Obama campaign," said Nemazee. "I remain convinced, until shown otherwise, that donors, be they in New York or elsewhere, are sticking with Hillary and the campaign."”
http://www.observer.com/2008/clinton-finance-chair-hopes-nominee-will-be-welcoming
May 5, 2008
“"I think the momentum is very much in our direction and we are going to exceed expectations," said Hassan Nemazee, one of the campaign's finance chairs.”
http://www.observer.com/2008/clinton-finance-chair-predicts-game-changing-tuesday
April 25, 2008
"He came to me yesterday and gave me a heads-up," said Nemazee. "I like Gabriel and I consider him a friend. The reality is that as much as we don't want to see anybody leaving the fold and we are disappointed in his decision, from the standpoint of the campaign he certainly wasn't and isn’t counted on as being one of the main participants in the finance-related or non-finance-related activities of the campaign and we wish him well."
http://www.observer.com/2008/clinton-finance-chair-says-defection-no-big-deal
April 23, 2008
“Clinton's campaign advisers have clearly been counting on her victory to restock the till, and her Philadelphia plea appears to have paid off: according to Hassan Nemazee, the national finance chair for the Clinton campaign, by 2 p.m. on Wednesday the campaign had taken in $10 million—half of the $21 million it took in for the entire month of March. Just as important, he adds, many were new donors. More than 80% of the 60,000 who pledged had never given money to the Clinton campaign before.”
http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/content/apr2008/db20080423_628458.htm
April 16, 2008
"The conference room belonged to George Soros, the billionaire bête noire of the right. After talking to Soros for an hour about his prospective bid for the White House, Obama walked down the hall and found assembled a dozen of the city’s heaviest-hitting Democratic fund-raisers: investment banker Hassan Nemazee, Wall Street power Blair Effron, private-equity hotshot Mark Gallogly, hedge-fund manager Orin Kramer. Most had been big-time John Kerry backers in 2004. Most had a connection to the Clintons. All were officially uncommitted for 2008."
http://nymag.com/news/politics/30634/
April 4, 2008
“I followed up with Clinton campaign finance chair Hassan Nemazee about that summit of big Clinton and Obama donors last night, and he told me that there was a bit of an epilogue to the spirited exchange he had with DNC chairman Howard Dean.”
http://www.observer.com/2008/howard-dean-talks-hassan-nemazee-part-2
April 4, 2008
“At that point Clinton campaign finance chair Hassan Nemazee spoke up. He said Dean's response sounded to him as if the DNC chairman were "essentially trying to kick the can down the road" and that the chairman was not exhibiting the type of leadership one would expect.”
http://www.observer.com/2008/more-clinton-donors-versus-dean
April 4, 2008
“The meeting, which started at 7 p.m. and lasted several hours, included, among others, Clinton supporters Rattner and White as well as Alan Patricof, Hassan Nemazee and Bernard Bergreen, and Obama supporters Soros, Brian Mathis, James Rubin, Michael Froman and Josh Steiner.”
http://www.observer.com/2008/clinton-donors-press-dean-fifth-avenue-bundler-summit
March 4, 2008
“Clinton finance chair Hassan Nemazee said that if Mr. Obama turned out to be the winner, well-known New York donors who had decided to back Mr. Obama early on “will have and should have a greater presence and greater voice than those of us who backed an alternative candidate.” But, he said, “I think there is no doubt that we are in an era in which the central role of major donor will be somewhat diminished, but I don’t think it goes away completely. Remember, in a presidential, what happens is, you have six or seven candidates, most of whom will never be able to raise the bulk of their money online.””
http://www.observer.com/2008/re-raising-hill
February 28, 2008
“One of Hillary Clinton's finance chairs, Hassan Nemazee, insisted he was not in "gloat mode or I-told-you-so mode," but there was no mistaking the delight in his voice about the more than $35 million Hillary Clinton raised in February.”
http://www.observer.com/2008/nemazee-lauds-clintons-fund-raising-accomplishment
February 23, 2008
“Hassan Nemazee, one of Hillary Clinton's finance chairs, thinks that the punditocracy and media as a whole are getting way ahead of themselves in proclaiming Clinton sunk.”
http://www.observer.com/2008/clinton-finance-chair-thinks-media-getting-ahead-itself-shes-8-points
February, 22 2008
“One of the Clinton campaign's finance chairs, Hassan Nemazee, called in to dispute Clinton fund-raiser John Catsimatidis' assertion that the number of Clinton donors moving to Obama were "too numerous to mention." "We have seen no evidence whatsoever" of a defection, Nemazee said. "If anything we are delighted to still see so much enthusiasm”
http://www.observer.com/2008/nemazee-disputes-donors-defection-remark
February 12, 2008
““What’s gone wrong is very simple,” said Hassan Nemazee, a national finance chair for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. “If we had won Iowa and New Hampshire, as we had anticipated, projected, et cetera, you would not have been in a situation in which you are losing all of these small states—because we didn’t put any resources in those small states,” he said. “Obama, on the other hand, put resources in these small states.””
http://www.observer.com/2008/why-clinton-s-back-against-wall-nobody-prepared
December 18, 2007
“Number-one convert!” shouted Mr. Nemazee, a multimillionaire investment banker who served as John Kerry’s New York finance chair in 2004. “I moved them from an Edwards to a Hillary.”
http://www.observer.com/2007/hillary-bundlers-canvass-humbly-iowa
December 10, 2007
"I suspect that you are going to also see that candidates like an Edwards, who is in his upper teens and low 20's, may not be viable in all of the caucuses," said Nemazee. "I think the Edwards one [vote] will more likely go to Obama than it would go to Hillary. But if I had to make a guess, the Richardson, Biden and Dodd second choice votes would most likely go to Hillary, not to Obama. There will be far more of those second choice votes becoming available than there are for Edwards, because Edwards will be viable in the majority of the caucuses that he participates in."
http://www.observer.com/2007/hillarys-backup-plan
June 5, 2007
“Prominent Hillary Clinton supporter Hassan Nemazee says that the campaign's hiring today of Teresa Vilmain as the campaign's chief field operation official in Iowa (full memo from Clinton campaign after the jump) basically puts to rest any doubts a leaked campaign memo might have raised about Hillary's commitment to compete in the state.”
http://www.observer.com/2007/suppoerter-hillary-really-competing-iowa
March 11, 2007
“There were Barack Obama loyalists like George Soros and financier Orin Kramer (a reformed Clintonite); Hillary Clinton devotees like Susan Patricof, Hassan Nemazee, Bernard Schwartz, Jay Snyder and Stanley Shuman; John Edwards partisans like Fern Hurst, Robert Katz and Laura Ross; and even a smattering of cheerleaders for Bill Richardson, Joe Biden and Chris Dodd.”
http://www.observer.com/node/36907
January 23, 2007
“"I found the best candidate out there," he said.
Based on conversations with New York's big uncommitted donors in recent days, it seemed inevitable to me that the vast majority were going to fall into line after Hillary announced. Still, it's remarkable that it's all happening this quickly.”
http://www.observer.com/node/31237
October 1, 2006
“On the evening of Friday, Sept. 15, Mr. Gore and his wife, Tipper, attended a dinner at the Park Avenue apartment of the prominent Democratic donor Hassan Nemazee. The purpose of the dinner was to raise money for Democrats running for the U.S. Senate. Senate candidate Harold Ford Jr. of Tennessee was ostensibly the star beneficiary, but the roughly 20 guests dining on Chinese shrimp and noodles seemed most interested in Mr. Gore’s intentions toward 2008.”
http://www.observer.com/node/39503
December 11, 2005
"The Democratic Party’s hopes for retaking the Senate may rest on a New Yorker you’ve never heard of: private-equity investor Hassan Nemazee. In six months as chief fund-raiser for Chuck Schumer’s Democratic Senate Campaign Committee, he’s taken in money at a faster clip than the GOP’s Senate team. He spoke to Greg Sargent."
http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/people/columns/intelligencer/15311/
"President Clinton names Hassan Nemazee as U.S. Ambassador to Argentina (C)1994-98 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:301298 The President today announced his intent to nominate Hassan Nemazee to be U.S. Ambassador to Argentina.
Mr. Hassan Nemazee, of New York, New York, currently serves as Chair and CEO of Nemazee Capital Corporation. He has been an investor in public and private equity markets since 1972 and also has experience in real estate development. From 1979 to 1987, Mr. Nemazee was involved in."
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