During the waning days of her re-election campaign, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton was ahead by miles, but that didn't stop her hyperactive fund-raising operation from continuing to collect cash in the final 10 days of the race.
Friends of Hillary, which raised about $50 million for her Nov. 7 trouncing of Republican John Spencer, reported contributions from model Ivanka Trump and her brother Donald Jr. ($2,100 each), authors Sidney Sheldon ($2,000) and Erica Jong ($2,000), "American Gigolo" Richard Gere and his actress wife Carey Lowell ($2,000 total) and $2,100 from Stanley Zabar, who runs the world-famous Manhattan bagel-and-lox emporium of the same name.
Clinton, whose 1990s medical reform package was killed, in part, by the health-care industry, has continued to benefit from their political patronage this year. In October alone, Clinton's HILL PAC received $12,000 from a half-dozen health-care providers in Georgia, Arizona and Pennsylvania, according to campaign records.
Glenn Thrush