“If you’re dissatisfied that every few months we have a mass shooting in this country, killing innocent people, then I need you to mobilize and organize a constituency that says this is not normal and we are going to change it, and put pressure to elect people who insist on that change,” Obama says.
“I am frustrated, and you have every right to be frustrated, because Congress doesn’t work the way it should,” President Obama said during a fundraiser in California, asserting that many political leaders were “more interested in scoring political points than getting things done.”
On May 11th, the body of an infant girl was found alongside Interstate 37, within sight of downtown San Antonio, by a Texas Department of Transportation crew cutting grass and weeds on the right of way. The body had been stuffed into a piece of luggage, and apparently thrown from a car.
Producer and director Chuck Lorre will host a $16,700-per-person fundraiser for President Obama at his Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles home on June 18, according to Variety.
Hillary Clinton will be back in Los Angeles on June 19 for another three-swing fundraising trip, her second to the city since announcing her candidacy.
“We can get a lot done, but part of what we’re also doing is laying the foundation so that we then pass that baton to the next administration and we institutionalize some of the progress that we’ve been making,” President Obama says. He didn’t mention a potential successor, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Right after a ceremony to honor Ted Kennedy, President Obama is scheduled to attend a Democratic National Committee fundraiser at a restaurant in Cambridge, coordinated to fit the president’s Massachusetts visit.
President Barack Obama will arrive in Los Angeles just in time for primetime rush hour Thursday. He will be attending a Democratic National Committee fundraiser and pre-taping a TV segment for “Jimmy Kimmel Live” in Burbank. Santa Monica and Hollywood will also be affected.
President Obama teed off a trip to the west coast with a pricey fundraiser Friday the 13th in San Francisco, pushing his agenda for the next ten years and the contention that his administration has made great progress on the economy, education, health care, and climate change.
With an eye on his legacy as the clock begins to run out on his presidency, President Barack Obama vowed Friday to “squeeze every last bit of change” out of his final two years.
