..just kidding. He will attend yet another fundraiser, with the election over a year and a half away, as Variety reports
As President Obama returns to Hollywood circles on Thursday for his first re-election fund-raising swing, it’s not difficult to find supporters expressing frustration or disappointment privately and publicly.
They’re really enthused, too!
“Everybody’s going to jump onboard,” predicted Heather Thomas, the actress-activist who holds a regular monthly gathering of progressives at her Santa Monica home. “What’s the alternative?”
What’s the alternative? Well, Democrats could nominate the local dog catcher, who still has more knowledge of economics and leadership than Obama. Anyhow, she sounds enthused, eh?
On Thursday, Obama will trek to Sony Pictures Entertainment in Culver City for a late-afternoon backlot rally with a capacity of 3,000 and Jamie Foxx on the bill as a “special guest”; tickets range in price from $100 to $2,500 for VIP seating. That will be followed by a much smaller dinner on the lot for some 60 people, with tickets priced at $35,800 per person; the president is expected to go from table to table to spend face time with donors.
A second dinner will follow at the Brentwood restaurant Tavern. Among those expected are such moguls and major L.A. figures as Jeffrey Katzenberg, Michael Lynton, Berry Gordy, Elon Musk and Russell Goldsmith, as well as the two Southern California finance co-chairs for the Democratic National Committee, Capital Group’s John Emerson and Tennis Channel CEO Ken Solomon
Hey, instead of donating, they could take that money and donate it to the IRS, as way to attempt to pay their “fair share.”
