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StudentsFirstNY board members and funders attend Mitt Romney fundraiser at a StudentsFirstNY director’s mansion



StudentsFirstNY board member Joel Klein accompanied StudentsFirst funder Rupert Murdoch to a Mitt Romney fundraiser at the home of Ken Langone, a confirmed funder of StudentsFirst and member of the StudentsFirstNY board.   StudentsFirst funder Julian Robertson was also in attendance.
Written by Maggie Haberman for Politico.com.  Read the entire article here.

[The meeting] took place at a private fundraiser/meet-and-greet put together and hosted by Ken Langone at the Union League Club in Manhattan late Thursday afternoon, several hours after the Supreme Court decision on health care came down, multiple sources told POLITICO.



The event was attended by between 40 and 50 people, sources said, including some major names in fundraising, finance and media. They included Murdoch and his top adviser Joel Klein, Randy Falco, the CEO of Univision, Goldman Sachs head Lloyd Blankfein, real estate scion Bill Rudin, hedge fund executives Stanley Druckenmiller and Julian Robertson, Jets owner Woody Johnson, former Rudy Giuliani adviser Anthony Carbonetti, and pollster and strategist Kellyanne Conway, according to sources familiar with the list of attendees. …