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's California fundraisers. "He wasn't invited, and to the best of my knowledge he didn't ask," says a DNC staffer, who said party headquarters was nonetheless talking about the snub last week. /p>

What is known is that some of the very DNC donors that Dean has been unsuccessful in drawing into this fundraising scheme were out in force raising money for Hillary.

Clinton was out in California for a series of events that netted her "Friends of Hillary" political action committee more than $500,000. One of the events -- a dinner at the home of Democratic big-wig Norm Pattiz, also raised about $400,000 for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. Sen. Harry Reid was present at the event, with no sign of Dean, who had in the past several months had been attempting to get Pattiz to host a fundraiser for him and the DNC.

"The fact that Dean goes out there and pulls in a measly couple of hundred grand, and can't get the real, high-end, deep pocket party types to sign on is more telling than anything else about where he stands with the party," says a former DNC fundraiser. "Hillary goes out there and just makes them realize who they really want in charge of the party."

It wasn't just the old-line Democratic money. Young money, too, was out there: poptartlets Christina Aguilera and Lindsay Lohan were hosts of a late night event for Hillary, along with Jake Gyllenhaal, who is set to star in Brokeback Mountain, a movie that has Hollywood liberals abuzz. It's about bisexual cowboys.

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