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Related: About this forumBill Clinton to fund-raise for Hillary in Michigan
Source: Freep
Former president Bill Clinton will be the keynote speaker next month at a major fundraiser in Michigan for his wife Hillary Clintons presidential run, according to invitations going out to prominent Democrats.
Invitations say the former president will be the special guest at an Oct. 7 reception, 2-4 p.m., at the Bingham Farms home of Doreen Hermelin, whose late husband David Hermelin served under Bill Clinton as ambassador to Norway before his death in 2000.
Tickets to the event are $500 apiece, but those who pay $2,700 can arrange for a photo taken with the former president, and those who pay $10,000 will be honored as co-hosts at a special host reception."
Invitations dont give the address of the Hemelin home, but the on-line real-estate service Radaris Property Search lists it as a 17,000-square-foot mansion on 15 acres. David Hermelin became wealthy as the developer of shopping centers and apartment buildings nationwide, ultimately becoming co-owner of the Palace of Auburn Hills, where the Detroit Pistons play, and co-owner of Pine Knob Music Theater, according to his Free Press obituary. He died at 63 of brain cancer.
Invitations say the former president will be the special guest at an Oct. 7 reception, 2-4 p.m., at the Bingham Farms home of Doreen Hermelin, whose late husband David Hermelin served under Bill Clinton as ambassador to Norway before his death in 2000.
Tickets to the event are $500 apiece, but those who pay $2,700 can arrange for a photo taken with the former president, and those who pay $10,000 will be honored as co-hosts at a special host reception."
Invitations dont give the address of the Hemelin home, but the on-line real-estate service Radaris Property Search lists it as a 17,000-square-foot mansion on 15 acres. David Hermelin became wealthy as the developer of shopping centers and apartment buildings nationwide, ultimately becoming co-owner of the Palace of Auburn Hills, where the Detroit Pistons play, and co-owner of Pine Knob Music Theater, according to his Free Press obituary. He died at 63 of brain cancer.
More: http://www.freep.com/story/news/2015/09/26/bill-clinton-fund-raise-hillary-michigan/72896408/
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Bill Clinton to fund-raise for Hillary in Michigan (Original Post)
demmiblue
Oct 2015
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How many cops and firefighters could be put on the streets of Detroit with that money?
last1standing
Oct 2015
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jkbRN
(850 posts)1. Haha. He has to fundraise for her? Wow.
I didn't know that was legal outside of a superPAC, another sad day for democracy.
last1standing
(11,709 posts)2. How many cops and firefighters could be put on the streets of Detroit with that money?
How many water bills could be paid? How many potholes could be filled? How foreclosures could be prevented?
Instead, it'll go to a super-pac based in another state.
Bingham Farms is only a few miles up the Lodge from Detroit, but it's a world away from its residents.
Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)3. $500 - $2700 to hear a Clinton babble? P.T. Barnum was right.
oasis
(49,480 posts)4. Maybe they just want to meet and shake hands with a past president
they admire and respect.
99Forever
(14,524 posts)5. Yeah... sure...
Cool story bro!