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    May 10, 2012

Clooney to Host Star-Studded Fundraiser for Obama

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   Academy Award winning Actor George Clooney, left, listens Barack Obama
   during a news conference at the National Press Club in Washington, FILE
   April 27, 2007.
   Photo: AP
   Academy Award winning Actor George Clooney, left, listens Barack Obama
   during a news conference at the National Press Club in Washington, FILE
   April 27, 2007.

   U.S. President Barack Obama has departed Washington on a trip to
   California where he will attend a fundraiser Thursday evening at the
   home of Hollywood star George Clooney.
   150 donors have been invited to dine with the president, and the dinner
   is expected to raise $15 million for Obama's re-election campaign. $6
   million of that amount comes from attendees who paid $40,000 per ticket
   for the event. The rest comes from an online fundraiser that raffled a
   chance to attend the event to small-dollar donors.
   While in the western United States, Obama will also attend fundraisers
   in Washington and Nevada.

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