4/23/2015 Deadline
Less than two weeks after she formally announced her latest run for the White House, the former Secretary of State’s first Tinseltown fundraisers have been set on the calendar. Hillary Clinton will be double dipping in Hollywood’s cash register on May 7 with a lunch at Steven Bochco’s and a dinner at Haim Saban’s, co-hosted by Casey Wasserman. Tickets to both shindigs are $2,700 each according to those organizing the events. That amount is the legal individual limit during the primary phase of the 2016 Presidential campaign.
“It was only a matter of time before Hillary came out to Hollywood,” one political insider said tonight. “This is where the Clintons have deep support. This is where the money is for Democrats and 2016 is shaping up to be a very expensive campaign. And this is just the first of many visits she’ll be making in the next year.”
California’s retiring Senator Barbara Boxer is expected to be in attendance at Steven and Dayna Bochco’s Pacific Palisades home. Longtime Hillary supporter and 24 producer Howard Gordon, who hosted a Clinton SuperPAC event last fall, will be there too a that the NYPD Blue and Commander-In-Chief producer’s place. Opening the doors of their Beverly Hills home next month, Haim and Cheryl Saban are also veteran Clinton backers. They hosted a $15,000 a ticket Hillary headlined fundraiser in their home on October 30, 2013.
Both Boxer and Gordon were at the record breaking $2.1 million fundraiser for Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee that the ex-New York Senator was the marquee name for back in October last year for the party’s ultimately unsuccessful midterm efforts. That westside event was co-chaired by big Barack Obama bundler co-chair Jeffrey Katzenberg. While openly backing Hillary this time round, the DreamWorks Animation boss isn’t expected to be at the events in early May – though there is no doubt he’ll be spearheading fundraising for the former First Lady in the coming months.
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