Power Parties
August, 2004
Four years ago I was in Los Angeles covering the Democratic convention when a woman wearing pearls and a power suit jabbed a finger into my chest and asked, "Have you ever sucked a cock?"At the time, I was working through my fourth postmortem martini at a swanky hotel bar and had indiscreetly told the woman--a stranger--how all the corporate cash at both conventions made me wonder if there was any difference between the two parties. The woman, a campaign manager from Washington, was no...