JonBon at Obama Fundraiser

According to Bloomberg and Page Six, Jon and Dorothea attended an Obama fund-raiser Monday night:

President Barack Obama told a group of wealthy New York donors who could pay higher taxes under a plan he announced hours earlier that he is in “a battle for the hearts and minds of America” and needs their continued support.

“We were able to pull this economy out of a great depression,” Obama said of the recession, speaking to a gathering of 60 contributors tonight at a $35,800-per-ticket ($5k to Obama's reelection fund and the rest to the DNC) event at the New York home of Ralph Schlosstein and Jane Hartley. At the same time, he said unemployment is too high nationwide and more relief is needed for “ordinary folks.”

Schlosstein is chief executive officer of Evercore Partners Inc. Hartley is chief executive officer and co-founder of the economic and political advisory firm Observatory Group LLC. said.

Donors at the event included the singer Jon Bon Jovi and Peter Orszag, vice chairman of global banking at Citigroup Inc. and Obama’s former director of the Office of Management and Budget

 ~ Hath