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Barack Obama collected a record donation of about $ 15 million in a campaign issue last night during a dinner hosted in his honor George Clooney, who praised by U.S. President joked in front of a galaxy of big stars.
The president said jokingly in front of 150 of the Democratic Party donors who had gathered under a tent in the garden of the famous Circuit Representative on the heights of Hollywood in Los Angeles: "We have assembled a lot of money because everybody loves George, my friend."
Obama said: "People love me but they love to" George Clooney, sparking laughter among the audience, including actors Jack Black and Billy Crystal and Robert Downey Jr., Salma Hayek and Tobey Maguire and Barbara Streisand, as well as fashion designer Diane von Vorstenberg.
Obama spoke and reiterated the right of homosexuals to marry, who touched him for the first time during the day Wednesday.
Prior to the Obama speech on the platform surrounded by flowers, Head of the Board of Directors of Disney Studios, Jeffrey Katzenberg former, a major donor to Obama, the dinner was allowed to collect about $ 15 million, a record in the history of U.S. election campaigns.
The payment of each of the 150 participants, forty thousand dollars to participate in the dinner. The Obama campaign team had also allowed to withdraw by lot for two people to participate in the dinner for lesser donations, from a minimum of three dollars. Alvaúzatan school and were from New Jersey housewife and family from Florida. The total cropped Obama donations to finance his campaign has reached $ 18 million, as the president began his visit to the west
coast of the United States in Seattle, where he received donations worth three million dollars.
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