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June 7, 2007

Please join
Chairs
Michael Bauer, Paula & Jim Crown, Honorable Dan Hynes, Sandy & Jack Levin, Penny Pritzker & Bryan Traubert, John W. Rogers, Jr., Marjorie & Lou Susman, Tariq Siddiqui, Jim Tyree

~snip~

for a Celebration with
Senator Barack & Michelle Obama
benefiting Obama for America

Friday, June 8, 2007

Co-Host and Sponsor Reception: 4:30 PM
Supporter Reception: 5:00 PM

CARNIVALE

702 West Fulton Market, Chicago

Co-;Host: raise $25,000
Sponsor: raise $10,000
Supporter: give $1,000

http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2007/06/sweet_blog_scoop_obama_funder.html

Tariq is listed on opensecrets.org as a bundler:

$50,000 $100,000 Siddiqui, Tariq Chicago IL

http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/bundlers.php?id=N00009638

Note that Pritzker is also listed. She is Obama’s campaign manager and owns the Hyatt hotel in which the ‘coming together’ will be w I’manutjob and to which the demonstration that is to be helf in front of dis-invited Sarah Palin.
$200,000 $500,000 Pritzker, Penny Chicago IL Global Hyatt 70,700

She also had ties to a failed bank:

For the Pritzker family of Chicago, the 2001 collapse of subprime-mortgage lender Superior Bank was an embarrassing failure in a corner of their giant business empire.

Billionaire Penny Pritzker helped run Hinsdale, Ill.-based Superior, overseeing her family’s 50% ownership stake. She now serves as Barack Obama’s national campaign-finance chairwoman, which means her banking past could prove to be an embarrassment to her — and perhaps to the campaign.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2086352/posts

Apparently, Valerie chairs (or chaired) the board for the U of C Med Center where Michelle My Belle got her cushy job:

U of C shunning poor patients? (Michelle Obama, Axelrod and Rezko all involved)
Chicago Sun Times ^ | 8/23/08 | Tim Novak, Chris Fusco

Posted on Saturday, August 23, 2008 10:49:58 AM by Krankor

Sen. Barack Obama’s wife and three close advisers have been involved with a program at the University of Chicago Medical Center that steers patients who don’t have private insurance — primarily poor, black people — to other health care facilities.

(Excerpt) Read more at suntimes.com ...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2066783/posts

and she’s also a bundler:
$100,000 $200,000 Jarrett, Valerie Chicago IL
Is also included on the opensecrets list.