POSH EVENT IS PIERCE'S BIG-TIME DEBUT

From: The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) | Date: June 27, 1989| Author: | Copyright information

Rep. Steven D. Pierce, the House Republican leader and a dark-horse candidate for governor, established his first major beachhead in state politics last night with a fund-raising dinner that featured Bob Dole, the Republican Senator from Kansas, and cost $500 a person to get in.

Pierce, a political conservative with a parsimonious lifestyle, invited his guests to the Westin Hotel, one of Boston's fancier establishments and a far cry from the local watering holes where Pierce usually throws bean suppers or family picnics in his district in the small western Massachusetts city of ...

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