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Hillary Clinton has busy calendar of Mass. fund-raisers

Republicans on Wednesday ripped Hillary Rodham Clinton for her fundraising activities.AFP/Getty Images/File

Hillary Rodham Clinton has a busy calendar of Massachusetts fund-raisers the next few weeks, starting Wednesday with events in Boston and Chestnut Hill and branching out to different pockets of the state early next month.

The former US secretary of state attended a Wednesday afternoon fund-raiser at the home of Jonathan and Margot Davis. Jonathan Davis founded a local real estate firm.

The July 2 events will take the front-runner for the Democratic nomination from Holyoke, one of the poorest cities in the Commonwealth, to Osterville and Provincetown, two upscale Cape Cod towns where she will be the guest of longtime friends.

All of the events ask up to $2,700 per head, with cohosting opportunities for $27,000, which can also purchase a photo with Clinton and inclusion in the Hillstarters program for high-dollar fund-raisers. In Osterville, the $27,000 also includes a reception with Clinton, according to a copy of the invitation obtained by the Globe.

Attendees are also invited to donate $50,000, which buys the status of event host, and the Hillstarters status.

Clinton’s event in Holyoke, where US Representative Richard Neal is also expected to speak, will be cohosted by state Democratic Party Treasurer Nicole LaChapelle and Thomas Lesser, who helped President Obama’s campaigns in 2008 and 2012.

Renowned event planner Bryan Rafanelli and Alix Ritchie, a longtime gay-rights activist, will cohost the Provincetown event, according to a copy of the invitation.

In Osterville, Clinton will be hosted by Elaine and Gerald Schuster, two longtime Democratic fund-raisers and Clinton family friends.

Also in Osterville, Clinton will be revisiting a local skirmish more than a decade old. The Schusters were in 2001 locked in a bitter feud with local Democrats.

The state party had sided with the Service Employees International Union in its effort to organize a union at a nursing home owned by the Schusters as part of their real estate and housing empire, prompting the couple to publicly condemn the party’s then-chairman, Philip W. Johnston. A family spokesman likened Johnston to Benedict Arnold.

The acrimony has long since cooled, Democrats and top union officials said.

Republicans on Wednesday ripped Clinton for her fund-raising activities. Republican National Committee spokesman Raffi Williams said in a press release, “Clinton’s campaign has been full of hypocrisy, flip-flops, and scandals, so it’s no surprise she would prefer to avoid interacting with real voters. The truth is that Clinton is more comfortable schmoozing with millionaire donors than pretending to relate to average Americans.”


Jim O’Sullivan can be reached at jim.osullivan@globe.com. Follow him on Twitter at @JOSreports.