In what has to be a major embarrassment to LT Governor candate and LA City Councilwoman Janice Hahn, when it comes to campaign fundraising, it appears she does not have the support of many high profile SOCAL residents she has served and/or live "in her own back yard". While she heads out of town this week headed for Oakland for two campaign fundraisers, Candidate and State Senator Dean Florez, has not not one, but TWO MAJOR campaign events in the Los Angeles area.
The two campaign events in Oakland for Hahn, both arranged by Oakland City Attorney John Russo, are for a $150 per person breakfast at the Cathedral Building Gallery and a $300 a head luncheon at Leavened East, both on Thursday December 10.
Meanwhile, candidate Florez supporters will have a show of force on Monday, December 14th, when top luminaries in their field, from real estate, medicine, and the arts show their support at The Regency Club in Los Angeles.
David Geffen, formerly a Friend of Bill, is now a leading supporter of Barack Obama. Of Hillary's machine he says, "That machine is going to be very unpleasant and unattractive and effective."
Probably true, but Team Hillary isn't going to take that stuff lying down. Arianna details the blunderous response of Clinton's team:
It didn't take long for Clinton Inc to prove him right. Not long after Dowd's column hit the streets, "that machine" whirred into high gear with Clinton Communications director Howard Wolfson firing off a press release condemning Geffen and urging Obama to denounce him:
While Senator Obama was denouncing slash and burn politics yesterday, his campaign's finance chair was viciously and personally attacking Senator Clinton and her husband.
If Senator Obama is indeed sincere about his repeated claims to change the tone of our politics, he should immediately denounce these remarks, remove Mr. Geffen from his campaign and return his money.
The thing is, Geffen is not Obama's "finance chair" nor his "principal fundraiser" as Wolfson also claims. Indeed, as Geffen told me this morning: "I have no official role in the campaign. None whatsoever." Which makes it kind of hard for Obama to "remove" him.
And it gets better over the flip...Speaking of Obama, the videos from the Boxer/Obama event will be up in a few minutes.
Originally I had planned on only doing this until the election, but I've found it quite satisfying to just write a short pithy comment on each story and move on to the next. Also, I felt that I had been ignoring so many issues out there. These will probably be shorter now, but I'll try to get these out daily during the week. No guarantees though. :)
So, teasers: Waxman attacks?, Jerry goes to DC, the failure of the metrics, and the LA Times saga continues. Plus more!!
