LittleSis: Edward N Basha Jr

Chairman of the Board of Bashas' supermarket chain since 1968. Chief Executive Officer of Bashas' and an Arizona civic leader dedicated to multiple Arizona community projects. Edward Najeeb Basha Jr. was born in August 1937 in Chandler. He was the great-grandson of Lebanese immigrants who arrived in New York City in 1884 and migrated to Arizona in 1910. His grandfather opened a general store in Sonora near the mining town of Ray and later built a second store in Chandler where he moved his family in 1919. His father, Eddie Sr., and his uncle, Ike, learned the mercantile business at the Chandler store, but when it eventually failed, they struck out on their own. They opened the first store of what would become the Bashas’ supermarket chain in 1932. Basha graduated from Chandler High School, where he played football and other sports. He graduated from Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif., in 1959 with a degree in history and then went to work for the family business.After his father died in 1968, Basha, then 31, took over the family business. Basha has six sons, two with Nadine and four with a former wife, Sherri.

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Dennis Webster Deconcini	Spencer Abraham, Bob Kerrey, Hillary Clinton, Byron Dorgan, Tom Harkin, Edward López Pastor, Tom Udall, Tom Daschle, Samuel G Coppersmith, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Arizona State Democratic Central Executive Committee, Claire Sargent, Richard Carmona, Kyrsten Sinema
Marc Rowan	Bob Kerrey, Tom Carper, Hillary Clinton, Byron Dorgan, Dick Durbin, John McCain, John E Sununu, Tom Udall, Tom Daschle, Dick Gephardt, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Democratic National Committee, Mitt Romney, Kyrsten Sinema
Dr John G Sperling	Bob Kerrey, John McCain, Edward López Pastor, Tom Daschle, Dick Gephardt, Dennis Webster Deconcini, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Democratic National Committee, Arizona State Democratic Central Executive Committee, Wesley Clark, Jon Kyl, John Jacob Rhodes III, Richard Carmona, Kyrsten Sinema
Fred P Hochberg	Tom Carper, Hillary Clinton, Byron Dorgan, Dick Durbin, Tom Harkin, Tom Udall, Tom Daschle, Dick Gephardt, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Democratic National Committee, Wesley Clark, Fred Duval, Kyrsten Sinema
Norman Lear	Bob Kerrey, Hillary Clinton, Dick Durbin, Tom Harkin, John McCain, Tom Udall, Tom Daschle, Dick Gephardt, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Democratic National Committee, Arizona State Democratic Central Executive Committee, Wesley Clark, Kyrsten Sinema
Linda Daschle	Bob Kerrey, Tom Carper, Hillary Clinton, Byron Dorgan, Dick Durbin, Tom Harkin, Edward López Pastor, Tom Udall, Tom Daschle, Dick Gephardt, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Democratic National Committee, Kyrsten Sinema
Donald Sussman	Bob Kerrey, Tom Carper, Hillary Clinton, Dick Durbin, Tom Harkin, Tom Daschle, Dick Gephardt, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Democratic National Committee, Arizona State Democratic Central Executive Committee, Wesley Clark, Mitt Romney, Kyrsten Sinema
Maurice Tempelsman	Bob Kerrey, Tom Carper, Hillary Clinton, Byron Dorgan, Dick Durbin, Tom Harkin, Tom Udall, Tom Daschle, Dick Gephardt, Dennis Webster Deconcini, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Democratic National Committee, Wesley Clark
David L Cohen	Bob Kerrey, Tom Carper, Hillary Clinton, Byron Dorgan, Dick Durbin, John McCain, Tom Udall, Tom Daschle, Dick Gephardt, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Democratic National Committee, Wesley Clark, Mitt Romney
Steven M Champlin	Bob Kerrey, Tom Carper, Hillary Clinton, Byron Dorgan, Dick Durbin, Tom Harkin, Edward López Pastor, Tom Udall, Tom Daschle, Dick Gephardt, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Democratic National Committee, Kyrsten Sinema
Thomas Boggs	Bob Kerrey, Tom Carper, Hillary Clinton, Byron Dorgan, Dick Durbin, Tom Harkin, Edward López Pastor, Tom Daschle, Dick Gephardt, Dennis Webster Deconcini, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Democratic National Committee, Arizona State Democratic Central Executive Committee
Laurence Harris	Bob Kerrey, Tom Carper, Hillary Clinton, Byron Dorgan, Dick Durbin, Tom Harkin, John McCain, Tom Udall, Tom Daschle, Dick Gephardt, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Democratic National Committee, Arizona State Democratic Central Executive Committee
John D Raffaelli	Bob Kerrey, Tom Carper, Hillary Clinton, Byron Dorgan, Dick Durbin, Tom Harkin, John McCain, Tom Udall, Tom Daschle, Dick Gephardt, Samuel G Coppersmith, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Democratic National Committee
John A Merrigan	Bob Kerrey, Tom Carper, Hillary Clinton, Byron Dorgan, Tom Harkin, John E Sununu, Tom Udall, Tom Daschle, Dick Gephardt, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Democratic National Committee, Arizona State Democratic Central Executive Committee, Richard Carmona
Michael Stratton	Bob Kerrey, Tom Carper, Hillary Clinton, Byron Dorgan, Dick Durbin, Tom Harkin, Tom Udall, Tom Daschle, Dick Gephardt, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Democratic National Committee, Arizona State Democratic Central Executive Committee, Fred Duval, Kyrsten Sinema
Michael J Sacks	Tom Carper, Hillary Clinton, Byron Dorgan, Dick Durbin, Tom Harkin, John McCain, Tom Daschle, Samuel G Coppersmith, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Democratic National Committee, Wesley Clark, Mitt Romney, Jon Kyl
George Soros	Bob Kerrey, Hillary Clinton, Dick Durbin, Tom Harkin, John McCain, Tom Udall, Tom Daschle, Dick Gephardt, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Democratic National Committee, Arizona State Democratic Central Executive Committee, Wesley Clark, Kyrsten Sinema
Myron M Cherry	Bob Kerrey, Tom Carper, Hillary Clinton, Byron Dorgan, Dick Durbin, Tom Harkin, Tom Udall, Tom Daschle, Dick Gephardt, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Democratic National Committee, Mitt Romney, Fred Duval
Norm Brownstein	Bob Kerrey, Tom Carper, Hillary Clinton, Byron Dorgan, Dick Durbin, Tom Harkin, John McCain, Tom Udall, Tom Daschle, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Democratic National Committee, Mitt Romney, Jon Kyl
Douglas D Durst	Bob Kerrey, Hillary Clinton, Dick Durbin, John McCain, Tom Udall, Tom Daschle, Dick Gephardt, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Democratic National Committee, Wesley Clark, Mitt Romney, Jon Kyl, Kyrsten Sinema

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Dennis Webster Deconcini