{"id":675713,"date":"2010-02-25T09:10:33","date_gmt":"2010-02-25T14:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogs.suntimes.com,2010:\/sweet\/\/25.32323"},"modified":"2010-02-25T09:41:46","modified_gmt":"2010-02-25T14:41:46","slug":"sen-tom-coburn-to-headline-republican-chicago-fund-raiser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/675713","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Tom Coburn to headline Republican Chicago fund-raiser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.suntimes.com\/sweet\/RNCChicagoInvite.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"RNCChicagoInvite.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.suntimes.com\/sweet\/assets_c\/2010\/02\/RNCChicagoInvite-thumb-500x352-18083.jpg?resize=500%2C352\" width=\"500\" height=\"352\" class=\"mt-image-none\" style=\"\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Sen.<a href=\"http:\/\/coburn.senate.gov\"> Tom Coburn (R-Ok.)<\/a>travels to Chicago to headline a March 5 fund-raiser for the Republican National Committee at the Drake Hotel. The ticket prices range from $1,000 to $250. The host committee includes Pat Brady, the chairman of the Illinois Republican Party and a member of the RNC national committee, and other Illinois GOP leaders. One of the RNC&#8217;s fund-raising committees, the &#8220;Young Eagles&#8221; are also helping put the event together. <\/p>\n<p>Chicago is fertile territory for GOP fundraising. Sen. John McCain (R-Az.) visited Chicago earlier this month for a funder for Illinois GOP Senate nominee Rep. Mark Steven Kirk (R-Ill.) and to raise money for himself. McCain is in a contested GOP primary against former Rep. J.D. Hayworth (R-Az.)  Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) hits Chicago in April for a funder at the Standard Club.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/blogs\/glennthrush\/0210\/GOP_Memo_66_Senate_fundraisers_in_54_days.html\">Glenn Thrush over at Politico<\/a> has a list of other fund-raisers for GOP senators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Ok.)travels to Chicago to headline a March 5 fund-raiser for the Republican National Committee at the Drake Hotel. The ticket prices range from $1,000 to $250. The host committee includes Pat Brady, the chairman of the Illinois Republican Party and a member of the RNC national committee, and other Illinois GOP leaders. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2683,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-675713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2PMB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2683"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=675713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}