Singer Elton John (L) greets Democratic presidential candidate and U.S. Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) and former President Bill Clinton (R) as he takes the stage before performing a fundraising concert for Clinton's campaign at New York's Radio City Music Hall April 9, 2008.
Hillary's big and very high-profile fundraiser tonight -- which will feature a performance by Elton John at Radio City -- will bring in $2.5 million, Hillary finance chair Hassan Nemazee confirms to me.
The number vastly exceeds some expectations -- an AP story last week, for instance, predicted that the event was "expected to bring in more than $1.5 million," which is nearly a million dollars short of the actual tally.
Nemazee tells me that the event, which will draw 6,000 people, has sold out. "We are in our fifteen month of fundraising, and to do two and a half million is extraordinary," Nemazee says, not without some justification.(keep reading)
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