President Barack Obama will make a roughly 6 1/2-hour visit to the Southland Saturday to attend a series of fundraisers for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and Democratic National Committee.
Obama is scheduled to arrive at Los Angeles International Airport at 1 p.m. Saturday, according to the White House. He is scheduled to depart at 7:25 p.m.
While in the Southland, he is expected to take part in a roundtable discussion at the home of “Star Trek” and “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” director J.J. Abrams, with tickets costing $33,400 per person, according to Variety. Proceeds will benefit the DSCC.
The president is also expected to attend a concert by a mystery performer at a private home in Pacific Palisades, according to various Hollywood trade magazines. Tickets for that event cost between $1,000 and $5,000, with proceeds benefiting the Democratic Hope Fund, which supports the DNC and Obama for America.
Obama will also attend a dinner at the home of interior designer Michael Smith and his partner, former HBO executive James Costos, the U.S. ambassador to Spain. Dinner tickets range from $10,000 to $33,400 and will also benefit the Democratic Hope Fund, according to Variety and The Hollywood Reporter.
The president was last in Los Angeles on June 18-19, when he attended a pair of DNC fundraisers and taped a podcast with comedian Marc Maron. Obama spent that weekend — Father’s Day — in the Coachella Valley, playing golf.
The visit will be Obama’s 23rd to Los Angeles and Orange counties as president.
Obama has attended fundraisers during 19 of his previous visits to Los Angeles and Orange counties as president, attending 34 fundraisers in Los Angeles County on those trips, occasionally attending multiple fundraisers during the same visit.
Through the seventh years of their administrations, Bill Clinton conducted 42 fundraisers in the region, George W. Bush nine and Ronald Reagan eight, according to research by Brendan J. Doherty, an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at the U.S. Naval Academy, for his book “The Rise of the President’s Permanent Campaign.”
