President Barack Obama raised money across California this weekend, while U.S. House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy went into seclusion upon returning home to Bakersfield. Obama even poked fun at the turmoil in Republican ranks, which intensified when McCarthy withdrew from the Speaker’s race in the House.
As the Democratic Party’s biggest names head back to Hollywood this week to raise money, the Los Angeles Police Department is warning citizens to avoid certain areas of the city, and has forecast major traffic delays and announced the grounding of unauthorized air traffic.
A roadside construction sign in the posh Los Angeles neighborhood of Brentwood flashed anti-Obama and anti-Hillary messages on Monday, as a local crew trimmed lush coral trees on the median of San Vicente Boulevard nearby.
A political fundraiser for President Obama, set to take place in Manhattan Monday evening, may inconvenience fashionistas heading to the annual Costume Institute Gala, which is being held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, according to The New York Post.
In a push to improve cybersecurity Barack Obama plans to visit the Bay Area next week to hold a Cybersecurity Summit at Stanford University on Friday.
Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) has joined ranks with other progressives like Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) to blast President Barack Obama’s nomination of Antonio Weiss as the Treasury undersecretary for domestic finance–a big money banker and one of Obama’s top campaign bundlers.
