Obama's Fundraising Binge

WASHINGTON -- Democratic White House hopeful Sen. Barack Obama is on a fund-raising binge. He's under self-imposed pressure to show he can deliver because he beat his rivals in collecting money for the primary in the first quarter of the year and wants to show he can keep up the pace.

In a rare look at the inner workings of a campaign, the Sun-Times has learned that Obama's fund-raising team has booked him in at least 23 events across the country between May 22 and June 29 -- the end of the second quarter.

Between the late afternoon and evening on June 8 in Chicago, Obama will sprint through four events in Lincoln Park at the homes of Vicki and Bruce Heyman and Alicia and Tim Mullen, Carnivale and Union Station for a "Generation O" bash. (The funder at Park West was switched to Carnivale after complaints from organized labor.)

It may be a long time before he personally appears at funders in Chicago again because so many of the high-end givers and bundlers (people who tap into their networks to get checks) have maxed out.

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