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Under Media Pressure, Obama To Disclose Some Fundraising Events

Under Media Pressure, Obama To Disclose Some Fundraising Events
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White House hopeful Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.), who is making transparency a centerpiece of his presidential bid, will now put on his schedule fund-raisers if they are in a public place, a campaign spokesman said Friday.

The move comes after I wrote last Tuesday in my blog how Obama was starting another round of fund-raising without releasing details -- this time about events in New York, Boston and Chicago -- and after the campaign was asked by the Obama traveling press corps to open fund-raisers to the press and disclose the names of hosts and amounts raised.

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