Gillibrand, the fundraising dynamo (Politico)

Politico - In March 2006, when Kirsten Gillibrand was just a little-known congressional candidate running her first campaign, she was given a seemingly impossible task. Rahm Emanuel, then the hard-charging chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, demanded that candidates report $500,000 in their campaign account or else risk exclusion from the committee’s Red to Blue list of preferred candidates. (link)