<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>You're on the mark, Alex. It's democracy for the plutocrats while crockery for the rest. </div><div><br></div><div>All the best,</div><div><br></div><div>Fred Duperrault</div><div> SC County Greens </div><br><div><div>On May 10, 2012, at 7:38 PM, <a href="mailto:alexcathy@aol.com">alexcathy@aol.com</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><font color="black" size="2" face="arial"> Dear Friends, <br> <br> Sometimes I have imagined myself as a newspaper columnist. In the column linked to below, Steve Lopez of the Los Angeles Times has written something very close to what I would like to write about the $40,000-a-ticket dinner for "The First Black President" at George Clooney's mansion in the San Fernando Valley tonight. <br> <br> Please. Go to my blog and leave a comment -- whether you love it or hate it or just plain indifferent. <br> <br> Alex Walker<br> LA Greens <br> <br> = = = = = = = = = = = <br> <blockquote> <div> <strong>Re-Posted to California Greening on the Los Angeles Times, May 10, 2012</strong><br> <strong> <a href="http://cagreening.blogspot.com/2012/05/la-times-steve-lopez-obamas-hollywood.html"> Clooney's Obama Party Full of 'Hollywood Hypocrites'</a> </strong><br> <strong>By Steve Lopez</strong> </div> <div> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-PdhIeYhk0cM/T6xt6vdfTMI/AAAAAAAAAFc/I7X4BcYW3BA/s1600/clooney-obama.jpg" style="clear:left; float:left;margin-right:1em; margin-bottom:1em"><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-PdhIeYhk0cM/T6xt6vdfTMI/AAAAAAAAAFc/I7X4BcYW3BA/s200/clooney-obama.jpg" border="0" height="125" width="200"></a></div> They say tonight's soiree for President Obama at George Clooney's house in Studio City is supposed to gross $15 million, and the operative word is "gross." <div> Yeah, pardon me for being such a party pooper, but isn't it a little offensive that 150 of L.A.'s high rollers would shell out $40,000 to kiss Clooney's ring and get maybe 10 seconds of face time with Obama? </div> <div> ... </div> <div> Los Angeles is shutting school libraries, laying off teachers and shutting down fire houses. And VIPs are paying $40,000 for a Wolfgang Puck hors d'oeuvre and a silly photo with a president who only now has come to think it might be OK for gay people to have the same rights as straight people. </div> <div> Open your eyes, Hollywood hypocrites! </div> <div> ... </div> </blockquote><br> Please Read the Full Text and Leave a Comment at my blog: <br> <br> California Greening:<br> <a href="http://cagreening.blogspot.com/2012/05/la-times-steve-lopez-obamas-hollywood.html"> http://cagreening.blogspot.com/2012/05/la-times-steve-lopez-obamas-hollywood.html</a> <br> <br> </font>_______________________________________________<br>sosfbay-discuss mailing list<br><a href="mailto:sosfbay-discuss@cagreens.org">sosfbay-discuss@cagreens.org</a><br>http://lists.cagreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss</blockquote></div><br></body></html>