Hillary raises $2.6 million in Hollywood
posted at 7:47 pm on March 25, 2007 by Ian
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton raised $2.6 million at a Saturday night fundraiser in Hollywood. That’s more than double what David Geffen raised last month for Democratic Presidential contender Sen. Barack Obama.
Sen. Hillary Clinton hit Hollywood last night at the estate of grocery store mogul Ron Burkle and took home $2.6 million for her presidential campaign.
It was twice as much as Sen. Barack Obama raised last month at a similar fundraiser thrown by Dreamworks SKG’s David Geffen — a point that was made privately during the Clinton event by many of the fundraisers.
And while the Burkle event didn’t have the quantity of star power that the Geffen event had, it sure had the quality. Clinton was seated at the head table with Barbra Streisand and her husband, actor James Brolin; Yahoo chief executive Terry Semel, who once was the co-head of Warner Bros. with Robert Daly; Daly, with wife, songwriter Carole Bayer Sager.
Talk of Hollywood going over the edge for Obama appears to have been premature.
Blowback
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OsamaObamaDarth Executor on March 25, 2007 at 7:56 PM
Puke inducing!!!
NEMETI IN SYRACUSE on March 25, 2007 at 7:58 PM
What’s the over/under of Mrs. Bill Clinton autographing her Hot Air photo?
And I question her timing but never her patriotism.
freebird on March 25, 2007 at 8:05 PM
All that money just going to be thrown away on a losing campaign.
bbz123 on March 25, 2007 at 8:12 PM
Celebrities will favor celebrities, I guess.
Kralizec on March 25, 2007 at 8:41 PM
However, talk of Hollywood simply going over the edge remains spot-on.
Exit question; does Tom Tancredo realize that the $1 million he’s raised in total so far isn’t going to help him in the least?
steveegg on March 25, 2007 at 8:55 PM
It is a shame that we can’t tax these donations. We could wipe out the national debt by taxing campaigns for the businesses that they are.
DAT60A3 on March 25, 2007 at 9:01 PM
I wish Hollywood would put on a fund-raiser for me. Sigh. 2.6 mil could buy a whole lot of dog food.
robblefarian on March 25, 2007 at 9:06 PM
Keep in mind that:
A: This is early and H’wood is giving to all dems.
B: I wouldn’t put it past the Clintons to be fudging the facts a wee bit! I’m thinking creative accounting.
C: She was a tad bit stunned by the rebuke she received from Geffen…Geffen is a tad more influential in Hollywood and can make or break more people than Sir Hillary can..
Pam on March 25, 2007 at 9:16 PM
A group of people equal in number to HotAir’s average daily visits could comfortably outdo such a fundraising feat. Sitemeter reports average daily visits of 90,000 (in round terms). $2,600,000 divided by 90,000 equals $29.
I understand that “daily visits” doesn’t mean “unique daily visits,” etc. I’m just offering a way to put the $2.6 million in perspective of your approximate numbers, so as to show how readily achievable such a sum is. Here’s another way to see how easily Hillary’s fundraiser can be overwhelmed. If HotAir readers put a mark on a piece of paper every time they visited the site and, once a month, donated a dollar to some candidate for each visit they had marked down, then between today and the election, they would donate over $50,000,000.
Kralizec on March 25, 2007 at 9:22 PM
Hey, I’m thinking this may cause a nice splinter for Geffens minions to vote Republican!!! Wouldn’t that be something?!
auspatriotman on March 25, 2007 at 9:26 PM
She’ll need that alone just to counter that rouge Clinton = 1984 ad.
- The Cat
MirCat on March 25, 2007 at 9:46 PM
I’m conservative but you can’t tell me money doesn’t corrupt, which is why I am all for public financiang of campaigns. Look at the Republicans on immigration, and the Democrats sucking up to Hollywood and its “values”. The Republicans don’t give a darn about their rank and file anymore, b/c we don’t butter their bread.
RW Wacko on March 25, 2007 at 9:58 PM
When he converts it to the Amero, its a ton of money! Don’t doubt the power of the NAU!
lorien1973 on March 26, 2007 at 12:31 AM
- – Bill Maher
She could promise to never, ever, use cigars in any form, shape, or otherwise, not on Easter Sunday, or any other day, in the White House.
So much celebrity, so much money, so much hope – then, so much disappointment and TDS.
Entelechy on March 26, 2007 at 1:24 AM
If she becomes President I’ll start smoking cigars.
profitsbeard on March 26, 2007 at 2:45 AM
That cover photograph is inducing nightmares…
Zorro on March 26, 2007 at 6:26 AM
Too bad that everybody else will also convert their warchests to that, and it will still be X times as much.
steveegg on March 26, 2007 at 7:22 AM
Wonder if the Hollywood crowd would support a fellow actor if Fred Thompson decides to run? That would be too much to hope for I guess.
Ellen on March 26, 2007 at 8:25 AM
The answer to that one is NO! They don’t support conservatives no matter who they are.
Don’t these “stars’ have enough sense to know that the money they are giving the witch is just like pouring it down a rat hole? Somebody should tell them the money could go for a better cause – like helping those who need help. Hey ‘Babs’ like people who need people!
Of course, I am proposing that we all send the witch a donation but not in bucks. How about if each of us send her a can of dog food?
OBX Pete on March 26, 2007 at 9:20 AM