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Obama headlines $28,500 per person fund-raiser Thursday in Chicago
Chicago Sun-Times ^ | 06/12/08 | Lynn Sweet

Posted on 06/13/2008 5:45:14 AM PDT by wm_tate

The Chicago area Obama fund-raising elite gather Thursday at 5:45 p.m. at the home of Sara and James Hal for a high dollar fund-raising “special reception” with presumptive Democratic nominee Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.).

The $28,500 per-person event benefits the Democratic White House Victory Fund.

The hosts are the Illinois Finance Co-Chairs Jim Crown and John W. Rogers Jr.

After that, Obama heads to the near West Side home of of Leah Missbach Day and F.K. Day for a 7:15 p.m. reception for his “Obama for America” warchest where donors are asked to give or raise $2,300.

The co-hosts are an upcoming line of bigger time donors

(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.suntimes.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: 2008election; campaignfinance; chicago; fundraiser; fundraising; il2008; jimcrown; millionaires; obama; victoryfund
How many Big Media outlets do you think will report this? Or will they be too busy talking about the Big O's small-dollar donors, instead? -Wm Tate, http://www.atimelikethis.us/
1 posted on 06/13/2008 5:45:14 AM PDT by wm_tate
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To: wm_tate

Most people who will vote for this suit don’t make $28,500 a year.


2 posted on 06/13/2008 5:49:02 AM PDT by Slapshot68
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To: wm_tate

THE AUDACITY OF TRUTH ABOUT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA

3 posted on 06/13/2008 6:01:10 AM PDT by Jeff Head (Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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To: wm_tate; Jeff Head

Lester Crown & family

Lester Crown (born 1926) is the son of Chicago financier Henry Crown (d. 1990), who created Material Service with two brothers in 1919, which merged with General Dynamics in 1959. He has been a perennial member of the Forbes 400 list since 1982.

He is a major benefactor of Jewish charities, universities and the Aspen Institute. He is the chairman of the Commercial Club of Chicago and Chicago Council on Global Affairs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lester_Crown


4 posted on 06/13/2008 6:01:46 AM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: Beckwith; Fred Nerks; Candor7

Has Philanthropist Lester Crown Been Duped by Islamists?

http://www.militantislammonitor.org/article/id/3275


5 posted on 06/13/2008 6:03:36 AM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: wm_tate

For $28,500 you can rub elbows with Obeyme, drink Dom Perignon and eat goose liver pate and caviar. I still prefer saltines, vienna sausages and rat cheese washed down with strawberry soda with Tom’s peanuts. I suppose I’m clinging...


6 posted on 06/13/2008 6:18:35 AM PDT by Eurale
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To: wm_tate

Bookmark.


7 posted on 06/13/2008 6:52:31 AM PDT by penelopesire ("The only CHANGE you will get with the Democrats is the CHANGE left in your pocket")
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