Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Barack Obama, speaks at an Independence Day picnic in Butte, Mont., Friday, July 4, 2008. Christina Almeida -- AP Photo Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Barack Obama kisses his daughter Sasha while watching an Independence Day parade in Butte, Mont., Friday, July 4, 2008. Jae C. Hong -- AP Photo Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., left, listens to Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y. during a news conference to open the Erie Canal Harbor Development Project in Buffalo, N.Y. on Wednesday, July 2, 2008. Don Heupel -- AP Photo

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Obama, Clinton to hold joint fundraisers in NY

  -- The Associated Press

BUTTE, Mont. (July 6, 2008 09:12 AM EDT) Now that they're allies, Democrats Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton will help each other raise money in a series of fundraisers in New York next week.

Obama campaign spokesman Jen Psaki said the Democratic nominee-in-waiting and Clinton will hold three fundraisers. Two events are scheduled for Wednesday night - one to raise money for his general election campaign and one to help pay off debts from her primary campaign. A third fundraiser, for Obama, is a breakfast Thursday morning with women donors that Clinton, a New York senator, will attend.

The fundraisers will be the first joint appearances by the former foes since their lovefest in Unity, N.H., on June 27.