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By Kyle Munzenrieder in Politicks

Mon., Oct. 26 2009 @ 2:46PM

Miami Beach clubs might pay celebs ridiculous appearance fees every once in awhile, but few can get $1 million just for showing up. Count the president of the United States in the club, but of course that money isn't going into his pocket. Instead, the funds raised from the Democratic dinner headlined by Barack Obama at the Fontainebleau tonight will go to help Democratic congressional candidates. Congresswoman and DNC vice chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz says the event will raise more than $1 million. Tickets for the event started at $500 and topped out at $100,000.

Today at 5:35, Air Force One will fly into MIA, where Senate candidate Rep. Kendrick Meek will greet the prez. Meek's camp is touting a possible face-to-face meeting with the president.

After that, he'll head off to the Fontainebleau to deliver a keynote address at a reception and dinner. Tonight's dinner will mark the 26th fundraiser Obama has attended in his first year in office, significantly more than the six President Bush held during the same time.

Tags: Barack Obama, Fontainebleau, Kendrick Meek, Miami Beach

6 comment(s) / Post a Comment

Andre says:

fucking ridiculous.

does he not realize that he has a country to run? Stop the campaigning and political fundraising bullshit.

Stock market crashed today, his response? He probably isn't even aware.

Banks closures topped more than 109 since he took office. Time to start dealing with the real issues.

Posted On: Monday, Oct. 26 2009 @ 3:46PM

dyanna says:

Shut the fuck up!!!You don't even know what u are talking about

Posted On: Monday, Oct. 26 2009 @ 6:00PM

anon says:

"Banks closures topped more than 109 since he took office."

He's been in office 9 months, those bank closures might have something to do with the previous 8 years of nonsense...

Posted On: Monday, Oct. 26 2009 @ 10:00PM

Jose says:

I agree with Andre.

Posted On: Tuesday, Oct. 27 2009 @ 8:32PM

Anonymous says:

Here's irony for you. While Obama was at the hotel, there was also a conference there about securitization and mortgage-backed securities. The very instruments that started all the trouble. So, while he was raising money for his cronies upstairs, the industry was downstairs trying to solve his problems for him.

Posted On: Wednesday, Oct. 28 2009 @ 8:56AM

Charlie says:

I certainly hope the Fontainbleau made some money on the fundraiser. After the massive renovation they did they ended up stiffing the contractors and subs around $60,000,000 worth of materials and labor costs. Many went out of business. If they did make money, I hope some of it goes toward satisfying some of the liens.

Posted On: Thursday, Oct. 29 2009 @ 1:58PM