Ford's big money birthday bash

And Dr. Seuss drama

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HIGH-ROLLER HEADCOUNT — The PCs are rolling in some serious dough.

While there’s no official word, a little birdie who was in the room at Premier DOUG FORD’s $1,500-a-plate birthday-eve leader’s dinner fundraiser in Etobicoke last month tells me they clocked roughly 250 tables, with 10 seats apiece — pegging the crowd at roughly 2,500 people.

That would put the night’s haul at around $3.75 million, minus the cost of putting on the event.

It’s a hefty cash grab, even if it doesn’t quite match 2023’s record-breaker, where 4,000 donors packed the leader’s dinner (scooped here). This year’s event marked a full comeback after the dinner was cancelled at the height of the Greenbelt scandal.

Why it matters: Campaigns aren’t cheap — and even if we’re still four years out (give or take) from the next trip to the polls, the PCs are poised to keep stacking cash. Individual contribution limits are now soaring to $5,000 a year, and Ford’s ruling cre…