Showing posts with label Obama fund raiser. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Obama fund raiser. Show all posts

Saturday, May 5, 2012

George Clooney's Barack Obama Fundraiser Drums Up Record-Breaking $12 Million


President Day Gallery, George Clooney, Barack Obama 
We all knew George Clooney could rake in dem big box-office bucks.
Apparently, he's not too shabby at pulling in political cash, either.
The superstar actor-cum-activist-cum-overall awesome guy will reportedly rustle up $12 million at his May 10 fundraising dinner for President Barack Obama in Los Angeles, scoring a record as the biggest U.S. presidential campaign fundraiser in history,
Or, let's put it this way: That's more money than what the heavily hyped The Five-Year Engagement recently made on its opening weekend.
About 150 guests are expected to attend the sold-out shindig, which is being held at Clooney's Studio City home and is costing folks a cool $40,000 a pop. (Hey, that rare house tour alone should justify the steep price tag, yes?)
The dinner itself is projected to rake in $6 million from paying guests plus an estimated $6 million from online donations, bringing the final tally to about $12 million.
The demand for tickets was so strong that the guest list was reportedly limited only to those living in Southern California. That doesn't mean the average joe can't partake, though: The Obama campaign recently announced a contest offering grassroots supporters a chance to be a guest
Clooney knows a thing or two about politics, having directed the politically charged Good Night, and Good Luck in 2005 and playing a presidential candidate in last year's The Ides of March. But his political activism extends well beyond Hollywood lip service: He was famously arrested in March for protesting outside the Sudanese embassy but was released a few hours after.

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