Obama’s California fundraising trip irks left and right

[Patricia M. McBride]

Campaigning again................will it ever end?   This man is either totally out of touch or just plain doesn't care (personally I think it is the latter).  And how much did this cost the taxpayers?

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Patrick Howley

Investigative Reporter

4/5/2013

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President Obama returned to Washington Thursday afternoon from a Democratic  fundraising tour in San Francisco that included appearances at four high-dollar  private fundraising events and garnered criticism  from Washington  Republicans and progressive activists alike.

Fury at the President’s Bay Area junket focused on environmental issues,  Obama’s comments on the appearance of California’s attorney general, and  wasteful hobnobbing with billionaires as the economy is grinding to a halt and  labor force participation has plummeted to its lowest rate since 1979.

Obama kicked off his fundraising swing with two events for the Democratic  Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) in two of San Francisco’s wealthiest  communities.

Obama appeared Wednesday at a $5,000-a-head cocktail reception at the $5.8 million Sea Cliff, San Francisco home of  investor and environmental activist Tom Steyer and his wife Kat Taylor, a  philanthropist who serves on the board of directors of organizations including  the Insight Prison Project, which runs programs inside San Quentin Prison  that seek to transform the lives of “those impacted by incarceration” through  “emotional literacy” programs and yoga.

“We’ve been able to reduce carbon emissions in this country … (and) address  one of the biggest challenges of our time — and that is climate change,” Obama  said in his remarks at the Steyer fundraiser, noting that he has made his  environmental accomplishments despite an “aggressive agenda” by Republicans.

“We’ve got more work to do in terms of dealing with climate change and making  sure that we’ve got an economy that is energy-efficient,” Obama added.

Obama has yet to make a decision on whether he will approve the planned  Keystone XL pipeline, which Steyer, a onetime top prospect to replace Energy Secretary  Steven Chu, adamantly opposes. Steyer has recently funded attack ads against  Democratic Massachusetts Senate candidate Stephen Lynch, who supports the  pipeline.

Obama later appeared alongside House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi at a  $32,500-per-person fundraiser at the home of billionaire Gordon Getty, the son  of the late oil billionaire J. Paul Getty, while hundreds of anti-Keystone  protesters held signs and demonstrated near the event.

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