“It takes somebody who knows a lot of people. “Brad is the prototype of the new fundraiser,” says former Ronald Reagan White House staffer Bob Tuttle, who dropped by for dinner on the terrace. Even ultra-liberal Democrats describe him as a “nice guy” and a “charmer.” In a milieu where a Republican moneyman might seem a fish out of water, Freeman, the California finance chairman of the Bush campaign, with an estimated net worth of more than $100 million, is something of a man about town. Start spreadin’ the news: Freeman is the life of the Party. His $10-million mansion is immaculately appointed, its beamed ceilings and orchid displays set off by manly hunting-lodge touches: antique fish lithographs, a mounted blow-up of Freeman and Bush at the president’s Texas ranch.Ī Barbie in men’s pajamas perches on the wainscoting, and there’s a needlepoint pillow bearing the golf credo: “The 19th hole is the best place to improve your lies.” And there’s Freeman, who seems to have wandered out of a Rat Pack flick with Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra: “What can I get you? Vodka on the rocks? We’ve got light beer, but this isn’t a bar.” Freeman’s pride in his fundraising prowess was evident on a recent evening at his Brentwood digs, which - like his British Post-Impressionist paintings and private Falcon 2000 jet - are the trappings of Freeman, Spogli & Co., the $2-billion-plus venture capital firm he manages with Ron Spogli, Bush’s classmate at Harvard Business School.
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