His sister Penny Pritzker ..Pritzker's friendship with Barack Ob

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Pritzker's friendship with Barack Obama and his family dates back to the 1990s when he was a professor at the University of Chicago.^[1] Pritzker met Obama at a Chicago YMCA where her son participated in a basketball program coached by Obama's brother-in-law Craig Robinson.^[5]^[27] Obama and his family were frequent guests at Pritzker's Lake Michigan vacation home.^[1]^[28]

Pritzker was an early supporter of Obama's political career, helping to finance his 2004 Senate campaign. Early in the Democratic presidential primary, Pritzker's financing helped Obama's candidacy survive when Obama was trailing Hillary Clinton in the polls.^[28] Pritzker remained a major fundraiser for Obama during the 2008 Democratic primary and raised millions overall for his White House bid.^[1] She served as the national finance chair of Obama's 2008 presidential campaign.^[29] Under her direction, the campaign reached out to small donors. Pritzker also hosted more lavish fundraisers as part of her effort to raise money.^[30]

Following Obama's victory in the 2008 presidential election, CNN reported that Pritzker was president-elect Obama's top choice for Commerce Secretary.^[31] However, Pritzker took herself out of the running.^[32]^[33]^[34] According to the Chicago Tribune, she withdrew her name from consideration "due to obligations to her family, for whom she was still overseeing billions in assets, and the financial crisis, which was putting some of those assets at risk".^[35] As a result of her public support for President Obama, Pritzker found herself the target of labor groups for Hyatt Hotels' practices. The president of Unite Here cited her connection to Obama as a reason why the group expected her to use better labor practices as the group staged demonstrations against Pritzker.