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Opinion: Departed Obama aide Power listed as host of Sunday fundraiser

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Here’s an interesting little footnote to the brief but explosive life of that controversy last week over Barack Obama’s senior foreign affairs advisor, Samantha Power, going overseas, giving a newspaper interview and calling Hillary Clinton ‘a monster.’

Power resigned with ‘deep regret’ almost immediately, calling her remarks ‘inexcusable’ and at variance with both the dignified tone of Obama’s campaign and her admiration for Clinton. Power attracted considerable attention in her 14 months with the campaign for her foreign policy expertise, being a Harvard professor and a Pulitzer Prize winner.

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But The Ticket has obtained some evidence that Power was also playing a little-known but important and influential role in Obama’s highly successful political fundraising campaign. Last month alone the Obama money machine raised $55 million, or about $79,000 per hour around the clock for February’s 29 days.

Now comes an invitation to an exclusive $2,000 fundraiser this Sunday evening at the Chicago home of Barbara Manilow on North Cleveland. Power is listed on the invitation as the top attraction and speaker.

At the time of this posting, no one from the Obama campaign had replied to e-mail messages asking if, despite her resignation March 7, Power was still the Sunday host and involved in the campaign’s fundraising efforts.

(UPDATE: A campaign spokesman this morning reports Power will not be participating in the Sunday fundraiser.)

--Andrew Malcolm

Photo credit: Sheila Griffin / AP

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