President Barack Obama is headed back to Northern California to raise campaign funds in the East Bay on July 23.
The fundraising swing will include what is believed to be his first visit to Oakland since he entered the White House in January 2009.
Obama had campaigned in Oakland three times in 2007 when running for president.
During the upcoming visit, Obama will first attend a small, “broadly tech-related campaign discussion” somewhere in the East Bay, to which admission will cost $35,800, campaign officials said Tuesday. Then he’ll attend a fundraising reception and dinner starting at 4:15 p.m. at the Piedmont home of progressive activist-philanthropist Quinn Delaney and her husband, real estate developer Wayne Jordan. That event will also cost $35,800 per person.
A much larger reception will start at 4:30 p.m. in Oakland’s Fox Theater. The $100 balcony seats already were sold out by midday Tuesday, but tickets remained at $250 for general admission seating; $1,000 for VIP seating; and $7,500 for event-sponsor status, which includes admission to a photo reception. Sponsors can then bring additional guests to the photo reception for $2,500 each.
The Fox, on Telegraph Avenue in the city’s Uptown district, seats up to 2,800 people, although some areas almost definitely will be set aside for security purposes, news media and so on.
Delaney and Jordan have held fundraisers for Obama before. In June 2007, they hosted a luncheon for Obama, then a U.S. senator from Illinois, for which tickets cost $2,300 a person. And in November, they hosted a $5,000-a-couple reception with White House senior adviser Valerie Jarrett.
The Center for Responsive Politics lists Jordan as Obama’s third-largest “bundler,” having brought in almost $1.5 million to the campaign.
This month’s visit to the Bay Area will be the president’s fifth in the past year, and his 11th since taking office.
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