Kentucky State Chair Hosting Fundraiser for Hillary Clinton
Newsday/AP
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Kentucky Democratic Party Chairman Jerry Lundergan said Wednesday he will host a fundraiser next week for presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton at his Lexington home.
Clinton, a New York senator and early front-runner in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, will not attend the luncheon event next Wednesday, but her husband _ former President Bill Clinton _ will be there, Lundergan said. The fundraiser will be private and is not an official party event, he said.
Lundergan said he appreciated the Clintons' appearances at state party fundraisers in the past.
The former president was the keynote speaker at the annual Jefferson-Jackson Dinner in Louisville last October. Mrs. Clinton was the main attraction at a party fundraiser in December 2005 in Louisville that drew more than 2,000 people and took in $600,000.
"I want to do something in return for them," Lundergan said in a telephone interview.
The Clinton fundraiser comes a few weeks after one of her main rivals, Illinois Sen. Barack Obama, spoke to at least 3,000 supporters at an event in Louisville.
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