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Barack Obama will star at an “intimate” $32,400 per head June 6 fundraising dinner and discussion in the Portola Valley home of star Silicon Valley venture capitalist Vinod Khosla and his wife, Neeru, according to the invite obtained by the Chronicle.

The dinner is one of two events in Peninsula private homes on Obama’s upcoming fundraising swing here, which benefits the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.[whoring for money ....AGAIN?]

In addition to the Khosla home dinner, Obama will also attend an earlier reception in the home of Marci and Mike McCue of Palo Alto. McCue co-founded Flipboard, and serves as its CEO.

Senator Michael Bennet, chair of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, and Majority Leader Harry Reid are hosts of fundraisers. New York Senator Charles Schumer and Bennet will both attend the events, according to the invitation.[aha, the usual gand of criminals and prostitutes]

Bay Area Democratic donors are being reminded in the invite that, with issues ranging from immigration to climate change and gun violence prevention on the agenda, the stakes for the party to maintain its hold on the Senate majority “couldn’t be higher.[what a load of political BS!]”

Tickets for the McCue reception are $2,500 per person. But to be a reception sponsor — which allows for a photo op with the president — tickets are $5,000 per person, and $7,000 per couple. Chairing the reception costs $12,000 per person, and $15,000 per couple, and comes with VIP seating at the McCue home and a photo op.

The Khosla home events — at $64,800 per couple — include a photo with the president as well as a “discussion” with him, the invite says.

Khosla, one of the founders of Sun Microsystems, now heads Khosla Ventures in Menlo Park, a leading venture capital firm. His wife, Neeru, is co-founder and head of the CK12 non profit organization.

We’ll have more on President Obama’s next fundraising trip to California as it develops.
Stay tuned.

whoring for money ....AGAIN?

Andrew D wrote:

whoring for money ....AGAIN?

An almost perfect description of the Republican party.

("Almost perfect," because in the case of the Republican party, "again" should read "continuously," and there should be no question mark.)

Or haven't you been paying attention?

dales wrote:The dinner is one of two events in Peninsula private homes on Obama’s upcoming fundraising swing here, which benefits the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.[whoring for money ....AGAIN?]

Senator Michael Bennet, chair of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, and Majority Leader Harry Reid are hosts of fundraisers. New York Senator Charles Schumer and Bennet will both attend the events, according to the invitation.[aha, the usual gand of criminals and prostitutes]

Andrew D wrote:dales singled out the Democratic party:

dales wrote:The dinner is one of two events in Peninsula private homes on Obama’s upcoming fundraising swing here, which benefits the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.[whoring for money ....AGAIN?]

See also, e.g.:

Senator Michael Bennet, chair of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, and Majority Leader Harry Reid are hosts of fundraisers. New York Senator Charles Schumer and Bennet will both attend the events, according to the invitation.[aha, the usual gand of criminals and prostitutes]

I don't recall your complaining about that ....

Vinod Khosla and his wife, Neeru

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Cape Town - South Africans are waiting for President Jacob Zuma to respond to the findings of a government investigation into “Guptagate” by saying, “Not in my name”. “Most people are waiting for that cue from the president,” said independent political analyst Professor Somadoda Fikeni. “That would save so many souls, because right now it seems most likely that middle-ranking civil servants are going to suffer.” The president needed to make it clear that his name should not be used by private individuals to influence government decisions. [FAT CHANCE!]

But Zuma’s spokesman, Mac Maharaj, said the president was already associated with the report by a team of directors-general on their investigation into the scandal because he had given the instruction for it to be done. He declined to comment on the finding in the report that Zuma’s name, with those of other cabinet ministers, had been used to influence government officials to facilitate the landing of a private jet at Waterkloof Air Force Base.

There have been growing calls for Zuma to distance himself from the Gupta family, whose business ties with his family and closeness to him are well known. Beyond expressing his support for the government investigation, Zuma has not officially commented on the matter. On Sunday, Justice Minister Jeff Radebe confirmed that the names of Zuma and Defence and Transport ministers Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula and Dikobe Ben Martins had been dropped by those seeking to “manipulate” processes.

The Cosatu-backed Corruption Watch said: “It would seem that mere mention of the Gupta family in the same breath as the names of senior members of the executive was sufficient to procure the most extraordinary privilege and to result in the most flagrant breaches of law and security considerations.”
Corruption Watch executive director David Lewis said: “We have to ask, how it is that the Gupta name resonates so loud? Is it not because of their highly publicised relationship with the family of the president?”[NO! SHURELY SHOME MISHTAKE?]

He said to refer to the incident as “name dropping” trivialised “the doings of a family” who were “clearly capable of commanding extraordinary privilege based on their relationships with senior public figures, clearly including the president”. The root of the problem was “starkly inappropriate relationships between senior people in public life and elements of the business community”. It would not be resolved by the “frankly silly proposal to make ‘name-dropping’ a disciplinary offence”.

Political scientist Professor Steven Friedman credited the government with a “surprisingly positive” response to the scandal, but said the one weakness had been Zuma’s failure to make a statement on the use of his name. While people close to Zuma were said to believe it was “self evident” that the president was not implicated, “nothing is self evident in public life”, he said. He slammed “certain sections” of the media for “trashing a government response which has been positive”. They would not have been satisfied unless Zuma had taken responsibility himself and stepped down. [FAT CHANCE 2]

“The mindset in which you assume everything is a cover up because the president is still in office is counterproductive,” he said. “The point is, if you’re going to yell at a government that acts, don’t be surprised if they stop acting.” Fikeni agreed the government response had been an “unusual show of force”, but said a number of questions had been left unanswered, including how independent the directors-general would have been if they had found their bosses had been involved. [AND HOW LONG BEFORE THEY'D HAVE LOST THEIR JOBS IF THEY HAD]