WASHINGTON – Mayor de Blasio will be the keynote speaker at a conference featuring some of the biggest liberal donors in Democratic politics this weekend in Chicago.
The mayor is attending the annual spring meeting of the Democracy Alliance, a group that seeks to harvest campaign donations from some of the party’s major liberal donors and put it to use building party infrastructure, voter registration and organizing campaigns.
Its members meet to decide how best to plow their cash into other powerful outside groups.
According to a conference agenda obtained by Politico, de Blasio’s speech Sunday will be followed by panels on income inequality, climate change, and gun control.
De Blasio gained national prominence among the party’s progressive wing by centering his “two cities” election campaign on themes of inequality.
Members of the group, which holds its periodic meetings in secret, are expected to kick in up to $200,000 a year to a variety of liberal causes, and the group has been billed as the left’s answer to the Koch brother’s influence in Republican politics.
San Francisco billionaire Tom Steyer and Jonathan Soros, the son of liberal billionaire George Soros, will be there, the publication reported.