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September 5 benefit concert for New York mayoral candidate Mark Green
From SonicNet.com:
Jon Bon Jovi, Jewel and Mary J. Blige will help New York mayoral candidate Mark Green raise money at a benefit concert and dinner a week before the primary election.
Actors Warren Beatty and Annette Bening will host the event, which will be held September 5 at Town Hall, according to Green press secretary Joe DePlasco. Invitations to the shindig went out last week, DePlasco said. Dinner and the concert cost $1,000, while $50 buys balcony seats for the show only.
With Green leading a field of four Democratic candidates in polls, DePlasco said that since the fund-raiser is so close to the September 11 primary, funds would be used to campaign for the general election November 6.
Green scored the high-powered musical lineup with the help of some show-biz supporters, including MTV Networks chairman/CEO Tom Freston and VH1 president John Sykes, DePlasco said.
Green has served as New York's (first) public advocate since 1993. He worked with Ralph Nader on public-interest issues during the late 1970s and early '80s.
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