WASHINGTON -- President Bush is teaming up with an old partner to raise serious campaign cash for Senate Republicans. The president was headlining a private fundraiser Tuesday night at the home of Fred and Marlene Malek in the wealthy Washington suburb of McLean, Va. The dinner was raising $2 million for the National Republican Senatorial Committee, the campaign arm of the Senate GOP. Malek, a local venture capitalist, was leader of a group bidding two years ago _ unsuccessfully _ to become the new owners of the Washington Nationals baseball team. Further back, he once co-owned the Texas Rangers baseball franchise with Bush. Malek, a veteran of the Nixon White House, also advised Presidents Ford and Reagan and was the 1992 campaign manager for the first President Bush.
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