Obama Heads To Florida, Will Pitch Economic Agenda In Speech At University of Miami

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama plans to raise money in Florida this week, including a $30,000 a person event at the Windermere, Fla., home of Dallas Mavericks guard Vince Carter. He also will promote his economic agenda in a speech at the University of Miami.

An avid basketball fan, Obama will attend a dinner Thursday at Carter's house just three days before the NBA's All-Star Game in nearby Orlando.

Also Thursday, Obama will not only speak at the University of Miami, he will also attend a fundraising reception at the Biltmore Hotel and at the Coral Gables home of lawyer Chris Korge, a top fundraiser for Hillary Rodham Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign.

Obama last week was on a three-day West Coast trip where he raised about $8 million in eight campaign events.

Comments

[mannyb54]

02:24 PM on 02/21/2012

Mr. Obama get out of Coral Gables, those Hartless 1%ers are going to throw money at you. Go a little futher North of there where the homes are in ruins, where the unemployment rate is 15% +, where kids go to school hungry, where you promise so much and have done so little for them. Stop critizing those 1%ers, there the only ones that keep this economy going. They produce non-goverment jobs, real jobs, jobs that dont affect our taxes or countries debt. We need the rich as much as they need us, what is so hard to understand. They buy the factories that we work in, buy the cars we make , buy the mansions we construct, give to charities that one day we might need, they give scholarship money for our kids to be able to attend school and so on. Stop separating us,
Castro did it and Chavez is do it too and look at the shape of those two countries. This is a great country and everyone has the same opportunity, some of us are just luckier or smarter than others.

[Monica Davis]

03:34 AM on 02/21/2012

Noway Rick Santorum or the rest (R) their all just heartless for America they just think for their self. What I mean I want to get into the White and critize and instead they need to get our country where it should be.

[az10]

02:35 AM on 02/21/2012

He has allowed thousands to die and imprisoned even more yet still refuses to even address question about his esclation of the drug war. Laughing at the dead laughing at the suffering!

[mustangdad2000]

10:47 PM on 02/20/2012

So the few people still working, in spite of Obama's complete failure on the jobs and economy, now have to pick up another tab for his endless rounds of propaganda and fundraising.

Can't wait till our new president is sworn in!

[teron678]

11:01 PM on 02/20/2012

2017 is 5 years away .. be patient ..

[vidaldca]

12:32 AM on 02/21/2012

Vote for Pope Rick Santorum hopefully he will bring back the Crusades, since the Protestants
broke away from the Catholic Church, and many came to America as Pilgrims he will make a decree that all churches in the US will have to take orders from the Catholic church.