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U.S. Sen. Barack Obama: Getty Images PhotoReversing a previous position where he said the issue of gay marriage should be left up to the individual states, presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama said over the weekend that he would oppose the California ballot proposition seeking a ban against same-sex nuptials.

In a letter read before the Alice B. Toklas LGBT Democratic Club's Pride Breakfast in San Francisco on Sunday, Obama said he would oppose Prop. 8, the so-called Defense of Marriage Act that would amend the California Constitution to define marriage as being only between a man and a woman.

The California Republican Party is taking aim at presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama hours before Obama is to attend a Hollywood fundraiser.

"Barack Obama will attend a fundraiser in Los Angeles tonight featuring some prominent supporters of Hillary Clinton's campaign for President. Obama's decision to mingle with tinsel town's elite, rather than meet with our commander in Iraq, leaves many Californians wondering about Obama's priorities,” said Ron Nehring, the California Republican Party chair.

The attack earned a harsh pushback from the California Democratic Party.

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Tickets are selling fast for Barack Obama’s star-studded June 24 Hollywood fundraiser at the Los Angeles Music Center.

Rufus Gifford, Obama’s California finance consultant, confirmed in an email to PolitickerCA.com that the campaign has sold several hundred tickets to its dinner event. He said that some tickets to the reception portion of the evening remain. Dinner tickets are going for $28,500 per couple and reception tickets are available for $2,300 per person.

Gifford declined to name any of the event’s attendees.

The event comes less than a week after Obama’s announcement that he would be opting out of the public funding system.

Barack Obama’s victory in the Democratic presidential primary hasn’t pushed WomenCountPAC, the political action committee founded by prominent California Hillary Clinton backer Susie Tompkins Buell, to shutter its efforts.

The organization is preparing to take out a full page advertisement in the New York Times in the next week that will call on the Democratic Party to focus on issues that are of concern to women, PolitickerCA.com has learned.

Rosemary Camposano, a spokeswoman for WomenCountPAC, said that while “the core of the group supported Hillary,” the organization wanted to make sure that women-focused issues central to Clinton’s candidacy, such as health care and abortion rights, remained in the public spotlight.

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The California Republican Party is circulating remarks that Assembly Speaker Karen Bass made to the Sacramento Press Club on June 5 regarding presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama.

At issue is Bass’s assertion that Obama should pick a vice presidential candidate who is “more centrist than he is.”

Asked by a reporter about if Obama’s should be considering a woman in his vice presidential search, Bass responded, “…I think that he needs to take his time and be thoughtful and identify who his vice presidential candidate should be. And I don't think, and I'm going to be concerned about, if there's a drum beat to try and force him to pick a candidate, whether we're talking about Hillary Clinton or anybody else frankly. I don't think that's the way it should be done. I was happy to see this morning that he's identified several people, including Caroline Kennedy, who's going to help vet who his candidate will be.”

Barbra Streisand: Getty Images PhotoWhile U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) is reportedly urging her top presidential donors to provide funds to U.S. Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.), it appears that one constituency will need little convincing: those in the Hollywood community.

“We are already seeing Clinton supporters moving over,” Andy Spahn, who works as a political adviser for DreamWorks founders Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg, and David Geffen, told PolitickerCA.com.

Spahn also said the trio – each of whom has given extensively to the Democratic Party over the years -- would be holding a fundraiser for Obama in the near future.

It’s not the first big-name Hollywood fundraiser for Obama’s general election effort. The Illinois senator is scheduled to swoop into Los Angeles for a June 24 fundraiser at the Los Angeles Music Center, whose chairman, John Emerson, is a longtime Clinton supporter who served as Deputy Assistant to President Clinton. Attendees to the event will have the option of giving $2,300 to Obama or $28,500 to a joint campaign and Democratic National Committee account.

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