his eyes fixed unblinking lill to the mayor calling out in the ragged, pleading voice, her gaze, intent and focused. all eyes on her other than those of the mayor who shook a few more hands and pivoted quickly and disappeared through the door ignoring them the entire time. mayor, she cried and, please stay here, mayor. the abruptness was exit, cake untouched, lack of clothing, and crowd milling around gave the impression the event was cut shorter than planned. with the mayor gone, fellow activists stepped up on the stage and left the banner behind the cake. centering in front of them to face the remaining crowd earnestly, people are dying. they are not going to have nowhere to go. critics and admirerrer described him as a strategist and fundraiser who knows how to leverage the personality to get wealthy donors to open the wallet and win races. he was a prominent fundraiser and made $18 million in investment banking in just two years, played central roles in two white houses and ork nateed a dramatic takeover at the house of representatives in the six years of congress. he clearly nowing