September 05, 2008

Side Dish: Party's over for GOP tell-all


Friday, September 5th 2008, 4:00 AM

Former top Republican fund-raiser Nicole Sexton's roman à clef, "Party Favors," may have hit too close to home for some old party grandees. Sexton, who exposes the underside of campaign financing in her novel, was due to have a book-signing this week in Minneapolis. But unnamed GOP officials "put pressure" on Sexton and her current employer, Bono's One organization, to scratch the Barnes & Noble appearance, according to her lit agent, Maura Teitelbaum. "Her signing at the DNC went off smoothly, but the Republicans felt that her book could embarrass politicians," Teitelbaum tells us.

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