Obama to Make 14th Fundraising Trip to L.A. Tonight
by Christian Toto 7 May 2014, 4:17
PM PDT
President Barack Obama is back in California to snarl traffic and collect even more Hollywood money.
The president will kick off a
series of Golden State fundraisers tonight, the 14th such
trip since he took office in 2009, according to Deadline.com.
The main event of the fundraising
swing finds Obama picking up the Ambassador for Humanity award at the USC Shoah Foundation's 20th anniversary
gala. Director Steven Spielberg
created the foundation to record Holocaust
survivor stories from survivors of the Nazi concentration camps.
The award comes just days after
Obama's Secretary of State, John Kerry,
likened Israel to an "apartheid state."
Obama won't be alone when he makes
his fundraising drive to some of the biggest names in Hollywood, including Jeffrey Katzenberg, Bruce Springsteen, Conan O'Brien, David Geffen and George Lucas.
Senate Majority leader Harry Reid
and House Minority leader Nancy Pelosi will join the President at the Horn
event for the bluntly titled “House Senate Victory Fund.” Obama has a $32,400 a
ticket intimate roundtable fundraiser scheduled for tomorrow morning at the
Beverly Hilton as well before getting back on Air Force One for more
fundraisers in San Diego and San Jose....
With tickets going from $1500 for
a single to $100,000 for a 1-seat VIP table, the gala comes just days after the
White House Correspondents’ Dinner and the train wreck of a routine by
headliner Joel McHale. Set to speak around 8:30 PM or so, Obama will be
reunited tonight with last year’s WHCD star Conan O’Brien. The TBS late nighter is set to host the USC Shoah
event. Schindler List lead Liam
Neeson will be there and Bruce Springsteen will perform at around 7:30 PM.
Holocaust
Lawrence S.
Eagleburger was the chairman for the International
Commission on Holocaust Era Insurance Claim, and was a member of the Iraq Study Group.
Note: Lee H. Hamilton was
a co-chair for the Iraq Study Group,
and is an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank).
Vernon E. Jordan Jr. is was a member of
the Iraq Study Group,
an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think
tank), Valerie B. Jarrett’s
great uncle, a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think
tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Brookings Institution
(think tank), the Harlem
Children's Zone, the Aspen Institute (think tank), and the Natural Resources Defense Council.
George Soros
was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society, and a
benefactor at the Harlem Children's Zone.
Wallis Annenberg
is a trustee at the Harlem Children's Zone, and a councilor for the USC
Shoah Foundation Institute.
Haim
Saban is a trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), a friend of Shimon Peres, and was a major
contributor for the 2011 Rahm Emanuel
mayoral campaign.
Shimon
Peres is a friend of Haim Saban,
and the president of Israel.
Teresa Heinz
Kerry is an honorary trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank), and married to the U.S. Department of State secretary John F.
Kerry.
Cyrus F.
Freidheim Jr. is an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
Valerie B. Jarrett
is Vernon E. Jordan Jr’s great niece, the senior
adviser for the Barack Obama
administration, and a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago.
Kathleen
Brown is a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, Jerry Brown’s sister,
and was the treasurer for the California state government.
Jerry
Brown is Kathleen Brown’s
brother, and the California state government governor.
James S.
Crown is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, and a trustee
at the Aspen Institute (think tank).
Lester Crown
was a lifetime trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), is married
to Renee Crown, Susan Crown’s father, a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
Renee
Crown is married to Lester Crown,
and an honorary co-chair for the USC
Shoah Foundation Institute.
Susan
Crown is Lester Crown’s daughter,
a councilor for the USC Shoah Foundation
Institute, a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, and was a
trustee at the Natural Resources Defense
Council.
Mellody L. Hobson
is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, married to George Lucas, and the chairman for DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc.
David
Geffen is a co-founder for DreamWorks
Animation SKG Inc.’ and was a major contributor for the 2011 Rahm Emanuel mayoral campaign.
Rahm
I. Emanuel was the candidate for the 2011
Rahm Emanuel mayoral campaign, the White House chief of staff for the Barack Obama administration, is the Chicago (IL) mayor, a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, and Ari Emanuel’s brother.
Steven Spielberg
was a major contributor for the 2011
Rahm Emanuel mayoral campaign, is an honorary chair at the USC Shoah Foundation Institute, a co-founder
& consultant for DreamWorks
Animation SKG Inc, Gerald Breslauer
is his financial adviser, and a director for Schindler's List.
Jeffrey
Katzenberg is the founder & CEO & director for the DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc., and Gerald Breslauer is his financial
adviser.
Gerald Breslauer
is Steven Spielberg & Jeffrey Katzenberg’s financial adviser,
and was a councilor for the USC Shoah
Foundation Institute.
Ari
Emanuel is Rahm I.
Emanuel’s brother, and the co-CEO & director for William Morris Endeavor Entertainment.
Steve Zaillian is
a William Morris Endeavor Entertainment
client, and writer for Schindler's List.
Conan
O'Brien is a William Morris Endeavor
Entertainment client.
Barbra Streisand
is a William Morris Endeavor
Entertainment client, and a trustee at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Wallis Annenberg
is a trustee at the Los Angeles County
Museum of Art, and a councilor at the USC
Shoah Foundation Institute.
Casey
Wasserman is a trustee at the Los
Angeles County Museum of Art, and was a councilor at the USC Shoah Foundation Institute.
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