It's in Redwood City, a Bay Area town on the peninsula between San Jose and San Francisco. It's going to cost $1,000 - $5,000, and that's not counting the valet charge to feed the dog secured to the roof of your car.
Who, you might ask, beyond Goldman Sachs Bay Area managing director, Sun Microsystems founder, and the rest of the usual suspects kleptocrats, would be coming to such a dinner?
Occupy Oakland, that's who.
Please join Occupy Oakland on Monday, March 25! Carpools are meeting at 19th & Telegraph at 3:45PM, and leaving at 4PM sharp...
Republican Kleptocrat Mitt '1%' Romney will join Meg Whitman for a fundraiser to fill his election coffers right here in the Bay Area... we want to mobilize Occupy Oakland to show this radical 1% fringe that their time is up... We want to highlight the nightmare of corporate personhood, & the selling of our democracy to the top bidder.
But rather than just mix our message in with other protests being planned, a group of participants from across OWS is holding a fun rally to highlight Romney's true masters. We're holding a "1%ers for Romney (or Obama)" rally. Members of Occupy SF, Occupy Berkeley, Occupy Cal, and Occupy Bernal will be joining this protest as well.
The 1% visiting Castlewood Country Club last month
We are being overnighted 200-300 Mr. 1% sign from OWS supporters, though your own signs are always welcome too! We want to do more than just slam Romney for his political positions. We want to critique and protest a system in which a tool like Romney could be in the political position he's in...
There wasn't much notice of Romney's visit; the first I heard of it was two days ago as
OakFoSho, one of Occupy Oakland's resident livestreamers, began organizing rides and making sure protest signs were available. The San Francisco Chronicle
reported on it as early as March 13th, but it apparently escaped much other notice as there's little further reporting on the event anywhere until Huffington Post
noted it two days ago.
Mitt's campaign at least tried to keep the event quiet in contrast to introducing Etch-A-Sketch to a whole new generation, but them's the breaks: Occupiers and others are nonetheless mobilizing.
the Chronicle ran another article today, coming clean as to why Romney would venture into Occupied territory:
Romney's campaign is coming to California - where he trails President Obama by double digits in some polls - to replenish its bank account.
"Simply, it's where the money is," said Daniel Newman, co-founder and president of MapLight, a nonpartisan research organization that tracks money in politics.
"Candidates are essentially servants with two masters - the voters who elect them into office and the 1 percent of the 1 percent who give them money to fuel their campaigns. Many of these wealthy donors, the 1 percent of the 1 percent, live in the Bay Area," Newman said.
The dinner is at the Hotel Sofitel in Redwood City beginning at 5:30 PM. You can have dinner and your very own VIP photo (insist on the dog being included)
for just $5,000.
Praise the voters and pass the caviar.