Making the rounds for money from the money crowd.. I.E. not you...

Jeb Bush kicks off week-long California money tour in San Diego

By Matea Gold

Former Florida governor Jeb Bush kicked off a four-day, five-city fundraising tour through California Monday with a luncheon at San Diego's luxury Grand Del Mar resort.

The event, which benefits the pro-Bush Right to Rise super PAC, is being hosted by yachtsman and philanthropist Malin Burnham, lawyer Margarita Palau Hernandez, real estate developer Ken Satterlee and Papa Doug Manchester, owner of the U-T San Diego media company, according to a copy of the invitation obtained by the Washington Post. (The money people are sizing up their money guy)

It's the beginning of a busy fundraising week for Bush, who is making an intense press to raise big donations for his allied super PAC before officially declaring his candidacy for president.

On Monday evening, Bush is swinging through Newport Beach, where he is headlining a $25,000-per-couple "reception and discussion" at the Pacific Club.

On Tuesday, he will be in Bel Air for a reception and dinner at the home of Maria and Robert Tuttle, who was appointed ambassador to the United Kingdom by President George W. Bush. Other co-hosts include Robert Day, founder of an investment management firm; Brad Freeman, co-founder of an investment firm who was a top fundraiser for George W. Bush; asset manager Ric Kayne and his wife Suzanne; former ambassador to Austria Susan McCaw and her husband Craig McCaw, a cellular phone industry entrepreneur; and asset manager Marc Stern and his wife, Eva. (More people with lots of money, you know, people not like you..)

The minimum requested donation is $25,000 per couple. Attendees who wish to attend the reception and dinner are asked to give $100,000 per couple.

Then Bush heads north to Palo Alto, where he is set to attend a luncheon Wednesday at the Four Seasons. The host committee includes venture capitalist (and former chairman of the Export-Import Bank) Bill Draper, former Ambassador to Portugal Tom Stephenson and billionaire school choice advocates Bill and Susan Oberndorf.

On Thursday, the former governor is scheduled to make a stop in San Francisco for a "luncheon and discussion" at the Mandarin Oriental. The hosts include venture capitalist Jay Kern and his wife Katie, as well as the Oberndorfs.

Bush will take a break for Easter, but then he's back on the road next week, with fundraising stops scheduled in Chicago, Boston and Nashville.