News
2007-06-27
Clinton, Obama go
head-to-head in Chicago fund-raisers
Democratic
presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama
both asked supporters to open their wallets Monday at
Democratic
presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama
both asked supporters to open their wallets Monday at
dueling fund-raisers in downtown Chicago.
Clinton's
fund-raiser was planned long before Obama's event was
announced. The Obama campaign wouldn't discuss why it
scheduled a fund-raiser at the same time.
Joe Power Jr., a
Chicago attorney helping raise money for Clinton, called
it ''kind of shocking'' that Obama would schedule a rival
event.
''Apparently,
when they learned about it, they set up a conflicting
fund-raiser,'' Power said. ''I wasn't impressed by that.''
In the first
three months of the year Obama raised $3.73 million in
Illinois, compared with $373,000 for Clinton, according to
their reports to the Federal Election Commission.
Obama supporter
John Schmidt said the event probably had more to do with
scheduling than with trying to irk Clinton, largely because
of Obama's huge lead in Illinois fund-raising.
''I don't think
anybody sees that as much of a real competition,'' said
Schmidt, also a Chicago attorney.
Clinton may be
best known for her years in Arkansas with Bill Clinton and
as a senator in New York State, but she grew up in the
Chicago suburbs. (AP)
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