Attention aspiring Obama girls
A source who gets invites on the cocktail circuit sends along notice that Senator and Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama will be in Raleigh on Nov. 1. The shindig is to be held at the home of Mary Laurie and Joe Cece. It looks like $500 gets you in with the rabble, $2,300 more up close.
Obama's campaign already lists a "Countdown to Change" event in Durham on the same say, but this shindig in Raleigh looks like it's more for the high rollers.
I imagine some folks would spin this as Obama getting all up in former N.C. Sen. John Edwards' face, being that the Triangle is home turf for the 2004 VP candidate. But I suspect that Obama has just learned the lesson that George Bush and a cavalcade of other pols have over the years: there's money in them-there-suburban-mcmansions - yes, even in the Tar Heel state.
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