Regency Hotel

More on John McCain’s revamped find-raising operation…

His New York regional finance committee will have a meeting this coming Friday at the Regency in midtown Manhattan to discuss fund-raising strategy in what will be a crucial second quarter for the Arizona senator, according to a source in the campaign.

According to the source, McCain's schedule for this quarter is now fully booked, after a slow start in the first quarter in which he had only one major event in January and two in February.

I caught up this morning with former Vice Presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro, who was breakfasting at the Regency Hotel this morning with City Council Melinda Katz, and who briefly dropped in on John Edwards' fund-raising event in another room.

Ferraro, who said she has received the same kind of treatment Elizabeth Edwards is now going to have, told the former Senator that he had reason to be optimistic.

"The research has been phenomenal in the last four years. And so, I got the benefit of it. She's going to get the benefit of it," Ferraro told me and another reporter in the lobby of the Regency before meeting Edwards.

Of the medication, Ferraro said, "It is totally, it's almost like benign. You have no side effects of it."

Edwards himself is still keeping a low profile. As far as I know -- the Daily News and a CNN crew were the only ones still hanging around the hotel when I left - he isn't talking to the press.

-- Azi Paybarah

8:30 a.m. Rudy Giuliani has a fund-raiser at the Regency Hotel.

9:30a.m. Hillary Clinton speaks at Bronx Borough President Adolfo Carrion's state of the Borough speech at Hostos Community College.

9:30 a.m. State Senator Carl Kruger and others rally to protect gifted programs for elementary students at PS 193 in Brooklyn.

10 a.m. Hasidic women visit the grave of Rabbi Menachem Schneerson at Montefiore Cemetery in Queens.

11 a.m. City Parks officials test drive horse-drawn sleigh on freshly made snow in advance of Saturday's Winter Jam in Central Park.

Noon A 24-hour dance marathon to raise awareness of the city's Cabaret Laws begins at Madison Square Park.

6 p.m. A good-bye party for Slovenia's representative at the U.N. will be held at the Press Box restaurant.

9 p.m. A fashion show to raise awareness about Darfur takes place at Roseland Ballroom.

-- Azi Paybarah

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