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Bernie Sanders Wows Hollywood Progressives at Two L.A. Fundraisers

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The Hollywood Reporter: After the glitz and glitter of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton's fundraising trips to L.A. this week, a cadre of industry super-liberals turned out Saturday to support in two events. Sanders' supporters might be called the entertainment industry's irreconcilables -- the left flank of the Hollywood Dems' most progressive faction, with activists deeply disappointed in Obama, who they supported, and unwilling to sign on to a Clinton presidential campaign. In the former Secretary of State, they see another moderate waiting to happen. Early Saturday morning, they filled the already blazing frontyard of actress Mimi Kennedy's Van Nuys home and -- at midday -- the living room of long-time activists Betty and Stanley Sheinbaum's sprawling Brentwood Park mansion to hear the program of a candidate they see as everything Hillary is not.

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