Michael K. Williams as Omar Little in “The Wire”

Clay Davis, Clarence Royce, Tommy Carcetti: The campaign apparatuses of Baltimore politicians on The Wire were rarely clean affairs. (Oh, how fiction foreshadows life.)

But as dysfunctional and loathsome as David Simon found American politicking to be, that’s not stopping some of his former cast members from heading up to Martha’s Vineyard next month for a Wire-themed fundraiser featuring cast members of the HBO classic to benefit President Obama’s re-election campaign.

The Sunlight Foundation’s Party Time blog caught wind of the shindig, which is going down August 15 at the Oak Bluffs residence of two big Democratic Party donors. The event costs $500 just to get in, $2,500 to get on the host committee.

Party Time doesn’t yet have the drop on which cast members from The Wire will be there, but like National Journal’s Elahe Izadi, we’d be shocked if the lineup doesn’t include Michael K. Williams, who played Obama’s favorite character, the rogue stickup artist Omar Little.

It’ll hardly be the first HBO-oriented fundraiser for the Obama campaign. Last month, the president headlined a $40,000-per-head event at Sex and the City star Sarah Jessica Parker’s house in New York’s West Village.

At least the upcoming Martha’s Vineyard event is for the better of the HBO series Obama has professed being a fan of. In the past, he’s also spoken of his love for that douche-fest known as Entourage.