President Barack Obama and Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy thanks the crowd after speaking at Central High School in Bridgeport, Conn. Sunday, Nov. 2, 2014. President Obama visited Bridgeport to rally the heavily Democratic city in an effort to re-elect Democrat Gov. Dannel P. Malloy in November’s midterm election. FILE PHOTO
President Barack Obama is giving new meaning to the term Coast Guard buoy.
After giving the commencement address Wednesday at the Coast Guard Academy in New London, the president will zip down the Connecticut coast for a swank fundraiser for the Democratic National Committee in Stamford, Hearst Connecticut Media has learned.
Some of those on the VIP invite list are expected to plunk down as much as $33,000 per person for a private audience with Obama, multiple people briefed on the president’s trip told Hearst.
A Secret Service advance team was spotted Friday in Stamford making preparations for Obama’s visit to Stamford, which is the home city of Democratic Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and is a regular stop on the Gold Coast fundraising circuit.
This will be Obama’s first visit to Connecticut since the final Sunday before last November’s midterm election, when he campaigned on behalf of Malloy in Bridgeport, the state’s most populous city and a Democratic stronghold.
Malloy, who went on to win a second term in a rematch against Republican Tom Foley, is slated to appear with Obama for the Coast Guard commencement, but not at the fundraiser because of a scheduling conflict.
The chairman-elect of the Democratic Governors Association, Malloy was also the beneficiary of a visit late in the campaign by first lady Michelle Obama to New Haven. Last October, the president mined cash for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee at a fundraising dinner in backcountry Greenwich. ‘
Connecticut has been a key incubator for Obama’s liberal agenda, from raising the minimum wage to gun control reform in the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre.
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