For the last two years, the company has been involved in raising money to try to retire a debt of $360,000.

Colón disputed this characterization, saying he would be retiring a debt with the contributions.

She could benefit from his prodigious fundraising to help retire a debt of as much as $30 million.

The money was to retire a debt from Mr. Siegelman’s campaign for a state lottery to pay for schools.

Last season, the Alley's 50th, the company retired a debt that had climbed to $2.5 million by the time Mr. Tetreault came aboard in 1994.

“Now that he’s the governor and I’m not, it’s very thoughtful and I appreciate that he would help me retire a debt.”

"Frankly, the problem is this money that is raised in New York is going to retire a debt that was incurred elsewhere," Ms. Hope said.

Indeed, he said, Mrs. Dole campaigned for Mr. Vinroot several times in his 2000 race for governor and helped him raise money this year to retire a debt.

In an unlikely reunion, President Clinton and Senator Charles S. Robb of Virginia held a $1,000-a-ticket buffet tonight to retire a debt that L. Douglas Wilder, a former Virginia Governor, ran up while running against them.

To Help Retire a Debt Billed as a "victory dinner," the $1,000-a-plate dinner at the Sheraton New York Hotel in midtown was expected to raise about $800,000, part of which will be used to retire a $185,000 debt from Mr. D'Amato's Senate re-election race last year.