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Dear Friends,
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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.
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Please. Go to my blog and leave a comment -- whether you love it or hate it or
just plain indifferent.
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Alex Walker<br>
LA Greens
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<strong>Re-Posted to California Greening on the Los Angeles Times, May 10, 2012</strong><br>
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<a href="http://cagreening.blogspot.com/2012/05/la-times-steve-lopez-obamas-hollywood.html">
Clooney's Obama Party Full of 'Hollywood Hypocrites'</a>
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<strong>By Steve Lopez</strong>
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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."
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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?
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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.
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Open your eyes, Hollywood hypocrites!
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Please Read the Full Text and Leave a Comment at my blog:
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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>
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