LA Mayor Garcetti appearing at a fundraiser for Pete Buttigieg

[brooklynite]

Garcetti will appear at a Thursday event with Buttigieg that will bring together union activists from the teachers, carpenters and SEIU — all bastions of Democratic support in California. Buttigieg is also scheduled to attend packed fundraisers hosted by some of the city’s LGBTQ and Hollywood royalty during his upcoming visit to the state this week.

“We have a lot of people who are very candidate curious,’’ Garcetti notes. “Kamala has a ton of love up and down the state, but people might say, ‘That doesn’t mean I’m not going to shop around…Maybe I’ll keep her as my senator and go with somebody else as president.’”

Buttigieg’s team says the mayor — who is making his fifth trip to the Golden State this week — plans to “play hard” in California, where he’s appearing in aggressive round of fundraisers this week, including sold-out, $25-a-head grassroots fundraisers in both San Francisco and Los Angeles.

State party insiders say Buttigieg’s community events and low-dollar fundraisers, designed to give average voters a chance to meet him, dramatize a longtime critique of Harris from some quarters of the party — that she has tended to favor events crowded with deep-pocketed donors in tony bastions like San Francisco’s Nob Hill and Hollywood over town halls or low-dollar events.

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/05/09/buttigieg-california-donors-1313119

[ucrdem]

1. First Feinstein, now Garcetti again

There doesn't seem to be a ton of love for Kamala at the front of the class.