The leading Democratic “super PAC†will hold a briefing for potential donors this month, its first such event since reorganizing in January as a vehicle to help elect Hillary Rodham Clinton as president.
The group, Priorities USA Action, is inviting some of the Democratic Party’s top New York City-area donors to an event billed as “an evening reception to discuss the upcoming 2014 and 2016 elections.â€
Jennifer Granholm, the former Michigan governor, who joined Priorities USA as co-chairman in January, will headline the event, along with two other officials from the group: the executive director, Buffy Wicks, a former aide to President Obama; and Jonathan Mantz, a lobbyist and Democratic fund-raiser.
Michael W. Kempner, a New Jersey public relations executive who was among Mr. Obama’s leading fund-raisers in 2012, will host the event, according to an invitation obtained by The New York Times.
The event will formally kick off the group’s fund-raising outreach for an election that is still more than two and half years away, in aid of a candidate who has not yet declared she will run. And in a nod to fears that the early start by Priorities could drain money from super PACs seeking to aid Democrats in Congress this year, attendees are not being asked to write checks â€" yet.
Priorities began reaching out to potential donors last month when it announced a new board of directors led by Jim Messina, a Democratic consultant who was Mr. Obama’s campaign manager.
