Warren Buffett to Host $36K per Head Fundraiser for Obama in Chicago

From Reuters via the Chicago Tribune:

11:29 a.m. CDT, September 21, 2011

Billionaire U.S. investor Warren Buffett will help raise money for President Barack Obama's re-election effort at a $35,800-a-ticket fundraiser next month in Chicago, an Obama campaign official said on Wednesday.

President Barack Obama presents Warren Buffett 

with the 2010 Medal of Freedom in February. 

(Olivier Douliery/Abaca Press/MCT)

Buffett will attend the Oct. 27 event at a private home on Chicago's North Shore that is expected to include major donors to Obama's 2008 presidential run. The Democratic president, who is not expected to attend, is running for re-election in 2012....MORE