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'Woodstock for Rich People' '08
Politico ^ | 6/7/08 | Anne Schroeder Mullins

Posted on 06/07/2008 4:49:05 PM PDT by Dawnsblood

Barack Obama will be welcomed back to Hollywood on June 24 for his first fundraiser in L.A. since becoming the presumptive Democratic nominee for president. The event is likely to draw the largest congregation of celebrities and local heavy-hitters attending a political event since late January, when Obama met with Sen. Hillary Clinton at their initial one-on-one debate at the Kodak Theatre.

That televised confrontation, which launched the final stretch of the long-fought Democratic nominating race, drew showbiz notables including Steven Spielberg, Quentin Tarantino, Leonardo DiCaprio, Pierce Brosnan, Stevie Wonder as well as a who's who of state and local representatives.

The upcoming fundraiser, held in downtown Los Angeles at the Music Center complex area, is expected to draw a crowd of more than a thousand well-wishers. Organized as a fete for the Democratic National Committee, the party designation means participants can contribute up to $28,500 as opposed to the $2,300 that donors are allowed to contribute to a specific candidate in the general election. Four years ago, then-candidate John Kerry held a similar event at the Music Center's Walt Disney Concert Hall that brought in $5 million, making it rank among the most successful political fundraisers in city history.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: 2008; ca2008; election; fundraiser; hollywoodvote; la; money; obama

1 posted on 06/07/2008 4:49:06 PM PDT by Dawnsblood
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To: Dawnsblood
I wonder if BO will have Susan Sarandon & the rest of the 'wine and cheese' crowd over for slumber parties in the WH? Barf.
2 posted on 06/07/2008 5:07:13 PM PDT by Redgirl (I'm writing in John Bolton for President in 2008. I'm crazy like that.)
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To: Dawnsblood
"making it rank among the most successful political fundraisers in city history"
3 posted on 06/07/2008 5:08:57 PM PDT by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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To: Dawnsblood
"making it rank among the most successful political fundraisers in city history"

And all that money helped to elect the loser.

4 posted on 06/07/2008 5:09:38 PM PDT by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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To: Dawnsblood

they’ve all been written off with the exception of Stevie Wonder, for whom we’ll attribute this to senility and/or Obama fever.


5 posted on 06/07/2008 5:31:23 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand (Obama's a front man. Who's behind him?)
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To: Dawnsblood

Good grief! Do these people realize what left-wing losers they are?


6 posted on 06/07/2008 5:55:04 PM PDT by popdonnelly (Does Obama know ANYONE who likes America, capitalism, or white people?)
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To: Dawnsblood

The state of American education has brought us to this point, proudly?


7 posted on 06/07/2008 6:15:25 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: the invisib1e hand

Steven Spielberg,( He’s made enough money, but you shouldn’t, you need to pay more taxes)) Quentin Tarantino(Hollywood legitimized manufacturer of porn for serial killers and sickos), Leonardo DiCaprio(drug-addled Al Gore A$$ zit suckin poser), Pierce Brosnan(Foreign interloper who can’t control his own half -wit childeren), Stevie Wonder(COME ON MAN HE’S BLACK>< OBAMAS BLACK) as well as a who’s who of state and local representatives of the GAY MAFIA, China INC,HAMAS West and La Raza.


8 posted on 06/07/2008 6:17:00 PM PDT by redstateconfidential (If you are the smartest person in the room,you are hanging out with the wrong people.)
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To: onedoug

Been there whole goal along!


9 posted on 06/07/2008 6:18:18 PM PDT by redstateconfidential (If you are the smartest person in the room,you are hanging out with the wrong people.)
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To: Redgirl

Rank is right. Stinkin’ to high heaven.


10 posted on 06/07/2008 6:40:12 PM PDT by yldstrk (My heros have always been cowboys--Reagan and Bush)
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To: redstateconfidential
"Stevie Wonder(COME ON MAN HE’S BLACK>< OBAMAS BLACK)" Lol.
11 posted on 06/07/2008 8:03:59 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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