Sounds just like people at Bush fund-raisers.

In the 2000 campaign, the top Bush fund-raisers - those who raised at least $100,000 - were known as Pioneers.

But one of its members is Gerald Parsky, a top Bush fund-raisers and the White House's point man in California.

They're people you might run across at a Bush fund-raiser.

One major Democratic strategist here said the Bush fund-raiser "took that race off the board."

"We spent $2 million, and McCain spent zero, and we lost by 26 points," a longtime Bush fund-raiser said.

The Bush fund-raisers will also be instructed to raise millions more for the campaign's general election legal and accounting fund.

"There was a Bush fund-raiser earlier, so that whole gang's in town," she said.

Marc I. Stern, the company's president, is a "Ranger" - a Bush fund-raiser who has collected at least $200,000.

Robert Penn, an oil entrepreneur, said a Bush fund-raiser later this month in Dallas "will turn out a lot more bodies."