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George Clooney's Obama Fundraiser Uses Star Power With A Twist Clooney's Obama fundraiser is expected to raise $15 million, mostly from general public donations for a chance to attend. It comes as fundraising changes. President Barack Obama talks with actor George Clooney outside the Oval Office in 2010. (Pete Souza, The White House / October 12, 2010) By Rebecca Keegan May 10, 2012 As political fundraisers go, it's set to be an "Avengers"-sized blockbuster: One hundred and fifty wealthy Democrats will dine with President Obama at George Clooney's Studio City home Thursday night, at a party that organizers expect to...

I'm told some Hollywood Democrats are furious they've been "outed" by Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's campaign. On Friday, the Los Angeles Times, in what was tantamount to a press release for Ah-nuld, presented the laundry list of Hollywood Dems who have joined Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and Haim Saban in the turncoat category for giving money to Schwarzenegger. But what the paper didn't report was that the Guv's campaign and/or its surrogates contacted many of these contributors and asked to use their names. And I'm told some of these Hollywood types said absolutely not. The main reason was that they...