As the new year and the 2012 election season kick off, President Obama will have two fundraising events to attend on Jan. 19 in New York, the first being a posh dinner and cocktail hour at Daniel on the Upper East Side, where he’ll arrive late in the afternoon for a meeting with leaders in the Jewish community hosted by Daniel E. Fass and Alexandra Stanton. Tickets will range from $5,000 for a regular ticket to $25,000 for an Obama-greet and photos. A few hours later, Obama will then head to film-maker Spike Lee’s Upper East Side brownstone, where he and wife Tonya Lewis Lee will party with the president at an intimate 6 p.m. reception with only 60 guests – all paying $38,500 per head or $71,600 per couple. Lee himself was very supportive of Obama in the 2008 election.
