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Searching for Google's CEO? Mingle in Style for a Cool Five Grand

By David Hatch
June 16, 2010 | 6:56 PM

No one ever said access to power in Washington comes cheap. Tech savvy Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., a Senate Commerce member who's up for reelection in 2014, is hosting a June 21 fundraiser at the swanky Hotel Monaco featuring Google Chairman and CEO Eric Schmidt -- and the short-on-cash need not apply.

Just getting in the door for the reception as a "friend" will set you back $1,000, according to the invite. The "sponsor" level, which includes two reception tickets and one dinner ticket, requires shelling out $2,500. If you'd like to attend in style as a "co chair," your four reception tickets and one dinner seat will cost a cool 5K.

Also on the agenda are Norman Augustine, the former chairman and CEO of Martin Marietta and Lockheed Martin, and Martin Neil Bailey, a senior fellow in economics at the Brookings Institution and chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers during the Clinton administration.

The theme of the evening is "The Road to the Future: A Strategy of Growth and Competitiveness." For those attendees without dinner tickets, if you're still hungry afterwards and looking for a cheap bite, we recommend the handmade noodles and dumplings at nearby Chinatown Express (the place where the chef in the window turns noodle-making into performance art!).

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