Oprah Calls on Beyoncé, Jamie Foxx To Support Obama
by 
Jeanne on July 19th, 2007
Oprah Winfrey is throwing a major fundraiser for presidential candidate, Barack Obama, and she’s looking for some high powered help. Here’s the story:
“I know this is going to be the hottest ticket in town,” said Yolanda Parker, a Los Angeles area supporter on Obama’s national finance committee.
Save-the-date e-mails for Winfrey’s Sept. 8 splash at her home in Montecito, a wooded community in Santa Barbara near the Pacific Ocean, just started circulating, setting off yet another round of buzz about celebrity fund-raising in the 2008 presidential contest.
Oprah Winfrey is holding a Sept. 8 fund-raiser for Sen. Barack Obama at her Santa Barbara, Calif., mansion.
STAR POWER
With Jamie Foxx and Beyonce possibly attending Oprah’s bash for Illinois senator and presidential hopeful Barack Obama, it’s time to look at which celebrities have thrown support behind Obama and his chief rival, Hillary Rodham Clinton:OBAMA
Halle Berry, Oliver Stone, George ClooneyCLINTON
Steven Spielberg, Barbra Streisand, Hugh Hefner
“There will be a reception and a concert with a very special guest,” said Parker’s e-mail to her “list” of friends.Calls out to Foxx, Beyonce
Winfrey is taking a personal interest in lining up the entertainment. Calls are going out to Oscar-winning actor Jamie Foxx and songstress Beyonce.To get in on the party, the maximum $2,300-per-individual contribution for the primary is being asked. Special VIP access will be given to people who raise $25,000 (they will be called co-hosts), with top bundlers of $50,000 or more to be listed as “hosts” of the event.
Obama and chief rival Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) have been competing for dollars from the entertainment world, each with their dueling sets of stars.
The two are mega-fund-raisers — reports filed Sunday showed Clinton has banked $63 million so far and Obama has taken in $58.9 million for the first half of the year. They did so with a big assist from California, where they have frequently dipped into what seems like an unlimited cash well; the Golden State so far has put out $9 million for Clinton and $8.3 million for Obama.
In Beverly Hills — that is ZIP 90210 — Clinton has pocketed $463,675 to Obama’s $257,488.
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source: Chicago Sun Times [image courtesy of Radar]
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