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Mariah To Perform at Obama Fundraiser?

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It’s not Sex and the City – it’s Barack in the City, which can be had for as little as $3.

President Obama’s campaign announced Friday that “Sex and the City” star Sarah Jessica Parker will host a re-election fundraiser at her Manhattan home next month.

Parker promised that the evening, entitled “A New York Night,” would be “fabulous.”

“I hope you’ll help me welcome President Obama and the First Lady to New York,” Parker wrote in an email to the incumbent’s supporters. “It should be fabulous.”

Supporters who donate even $3 will be entered in a raffle to attend the glitzy June 14 event.

The Obama campaign used a similar tactic earlier this month by raffling off chances to attend a star-studded fundraiser at George Clooney’s Hollywood home.

That dinner raised $15 million – the most ever in a single event.

Parker, a longtime Obama supporter, volunteered at a get-out-the-vote phone bank for the campaign in 2008.

“I believed then, as I do now, that if we all chipped in and did our part, we would not only make history,” Parker wrote, “but create meaningful change that so many Americans needed.”

“For me, this election is even more important than 2008,” she wrote.

Details of the fundraiser, which is expected to be held at the West Village home Parker shares with husband Matthew Broderick, are still being settled.

The raffle winners will be flown to New York and receive tickets to a Mariah Carey performance – though it is not clear if the star will sing at Parker’s home.

This will be far from the first time Obama will raise money in Manhattan, the political world’s favorite ATM.

He held a pair of cash bashes last week in the wake of his historic decision on same-sex marriage.

Earlier this year, he also attended a series of $35,000 dinners in posh apartments – including Spike Lee’s upper East Side home – and a fundraiser at the Apollo Theater that featured his famed rendition of Al Green’s “Let’s Stay Together.”

His Republican rival has also frequently visited the city with his hand out, though he will likely receive few votes from the five boroughs.

Mitt Romney has swept through the city several times to raise money, including a three-stop blitz one December day that netted him several million dollars.
eSource: Mariah Daily Journal

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