Every politician wants Hamptons money.
Not from the celebrities, but from the Wall Street gang and old money crowd.
On Sunday, I got a call from people leaving the Hamptons that a gigantic cavalcade of black cars, helicopters, motorcycles and and even a helicopter were causing a scene coming into Southampton on Route 27.
That was blowhard JD Vance, making a spectacle of himself heading into a fundraiser thrown by Woody Johnson, owner of the New York Jets.
“You can’t believe what’s going on here,” my friends said. “Thirty cars! Everything is stopped!”
Meanwhile, very subtly, soon to be First Gentleman Doug Emhoff and former President William Jefferson Clinton were welcomed to a private estate in Sag Harbor last night.
Spies tell me Emhoff and Clinton made for a fun tag team, taking pictures with lots of well heeled locals after making erudite speeches. Emhoff called his wife, Kamala Harris, “a joyful warrior.” Clinton joked that he’d much prefer to be First Gentleman than President.
Hillary Clinton, who was on the invitation, demurred after testing positive with COVID.
Organizers expected to net $750,000. They wound up taking in twice as much, $1.5 million.
No celebrities, per se. But Clinton’s small team included Hillary’s chief, Huma Abedin. “She was a like a ghost,” said a source. “But she was watching.”
Emhoff is getting high marks on the road, charming audiences. The other candidate’s spouse, Melania Trump, is even more of a cypher however. She may be packing up Barron’s trunk for his college stay, which most now say is Cornell University in upstate Ithaca. He has to be stashed somewhere. More to come… Look for Melania to be a regular visitor in Ithaca!
