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Party time at Barbara Boxer’s house

By Evan Halper
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It appears that as little as $500 (not tax-deductible) will get you an invite to the Washington residence of U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer tonight.

Chase Davis of the nonprofit California Watch Tweeted a link to the invite, which is posted on the nifty website Party Time: Documenting the Political Party Circuit. The event is billed as a ‘Welcome Back to Washington’ reception.

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A check of $4,800 earns donors the title of ‘host.’ The pitch for political cash makes note of the various committees Boxer sits on, including the Ethics Committee, which she chairs.

-- Evan Halper in Sacramento

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Evan Halper

Evan Halper is a former staff writer who wrote about a broad range of policy issues out of Washington, D.C., with particular emphasis on how Washington regulates, agitates and very often miscalculates in its dealings with California. Before heading east, he was the Los Angeles Times bureau chief in Sacramento, where he spent a decade untangling California’s epic budget mess and political dysfunction.

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