GOP hopes to strike gold at local Bush fund-raiser

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Why are local tax payers being stuck with the bill for security at a Bush fund raiser? Even if those tax payers my be well to do.

By Warren Cornwall
Seattle Times Eastside bureau

For the second time in a year, Bush will attend a fund-raiser at a Lake Washington shoreline mansion in one of the area's most exclusive suburbs.

The president is scheduled to speak at a dinner event Friday in Medina — one of several tiny Eastside enclaves collectively known as the "Gold Coast" for the abundance of wealthy residents.

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Medina officials, meanwhile, are hoping the presidential appearance doesn't prove too rich for them. Neighboring Hunts Point wound up with a $23,634 bill for police security surrounding Bush's fund-raising visit last August to the home of wireless-phone mogul Craig McCaw.

"It's a political event; it's not anything else but that. So we ought to be totally reimbursed," Medina City Councilman Pete Vall-Spinosa said at a council meeting Monday night

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