Obama to Keep Norman Hsu’s Money
While Hillary, Al Franken, Bill Richardson and others are returning Norman Hsu’s campaign contributions, Obama is not....
...I hope the Hsu case doesn’t result in campaigns demanding past criminal history information from those who seek to contribute. That would be a bad precedent....
Silicon Valley /Obama’s campaign
...suggests Joshua Green in the June issue of Atlantic magazine....
...From the start, the venture capitalists did for Obama what they would do for any start-up; they hit up their friends for money.
Mark P. Gorenberg, managing director of Hummer Winblad Venture Partners and a fundraiser for John Kerry in 2004 and for Democratic Congressional candidates in 2006, early on committed to bring in $250,000 for Obama.
Like Gorenberg, Steven J. Spinner, an entrepreneur and CEO of Sports Potential Inc., also became a member of Obama’s national finance committee and pledged to raise $250,000. “I’m a startup guy,” he told Green. “We take measured bets. … If you’ve got the right plan and the right leadership, the game can be won. That’s how I looked at Obama.” ...