Actors Join Tech Tycoons in Obama Support Amid Piracy Debate
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Three months after a tuxedo-clad George Clooney shared a White House dinner table with Barack and Michelle Obama, the president traveled to the actor’s mansion in Studio City for another meal. That second party, a star-studded affair in May, came with a better dessert: $15 million in campaign cash.
Less than two weeks later, Obama returned to California, this time to the San Francisco Bay area, to collect contributions from the state’s technology crowd at a Hawaiian-themed dinner thrown by venture capitalist Douglas Goldman.