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Stars of Hollywood, high-tech open wallets for Obama party
Breibart ^
| 12/26/08
Posted on 12/27/2008 9:33:12 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
Stars of Hollywood, high-tech open wallets for Obama party
Dec 26 05:54 PM US/Eastern
Stars of Hollywood including Halle Berry and Steven Spielberg and bosses of high-tech giants like Google and Microsoft are opening their wallets to help fund Barack Obama's inauguration party.
Obama, in keeping with his vow to purge US politics of influence peddling, has ordered that the names of all inauguration donors, withheld by previous presidents, be published on the Internet.
Lists of those stumping up for the inauguration on January 20 show that Spielberg and his wife, Kate, each gave the maximum 50,000 dollar donation.
Actress Halle Berry, listed as working for her Bumper Inc. production company, also gave 50,000 dollars, as did comedian and actor Jamie Foxx.
A Sharon Stone, of California is also on the list with a 50,000 donation.
Obama's inauguration fund is also attracting big contributions from titans of the US Internet and software industry.
Google CEO Eric Schmidt, who served on Obama's campaign economic advisory board, gave 25,000 dollars, as did Google co-founder Larry Page and Google vice president Marissa Mayer.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bhoinauguration; coronation; donors; fundingtheleft; hollywood; inauguration; obama; obamatransitionfile; richandfamous; sponsor
To: TigerLikesRooster
A fool and their money are soon parted.
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posted on
12/27/2008 9:35:43 AM PST
by
GodBlessRonaldReagan
(Wakka-ding-hoy - battle cry of the Plexus Rangers!)
To: TigerLikesRooster
has ordered that the names of all inauguration donors, withheld by previous presidents, be published on the Internet.
Ahem, Barry.....how about such a listing for those that contributed to the election?
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posted on
12/27/2008 9:37:31 AM PST
by
ErnBatavia
("Zero"..STILL using that stupid "Office of The President Elect" podium....)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Stars of Hollywood including Halle Berry and Steven Spielberg and bosses of high-tech giants like Google and Microsoft are opening their wallets to help fund Barack Obama's inauguration party Obama is President of the United States - he's not President of the democrats. It's nice that Hollywood is chipping in...
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posted on
12/27/2008 9:38:12 AM PST
by
GOPJ
(GM's market value is a third of Bed, Bath and Beyond. Why is GM "too big to fail"? Steyn)
To: TigerLikesRooster
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posted on
12/27/2008 9:41:57 AM PST
by
freekitty
(Give me back my conservative vote.)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Obama, in keeping with his vow to purge US politics of influence peddling, has ordered that the names of all inauguration donors, withheld by previous presidents, be published on the Internet. Can this hypocrite be serious? So, will he also be releasing the names of the tens of thousands of small donors to his campaign, many from overseas, whose names he declined to provide? McCain provided the names of such contributors.
People are still wondering about all those oversea donations, Barry. So, here's another opportunity to purge US politics of influence peddling.
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posted on
12/27/2008 9:57:51 AM PST
by
Will88
To: TigerLikesRooster
Its hard for me to think of words that can express my utter lack of interest in what any of these people do.
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posted on
12/27/2008 10:09:05 AM PST
by
skeeter
To: Will88
This IS influence peddling;those who names do not appear on this donor list will have no influence.
November 2008 ,followed by December 1984.
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posted on
12/27/2008 10:09:48 AM PST
by
hoosierham
(Waddaya mean Freedom isn't free ?;will yo)
To: GodBlessRonaldReagan
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posted on
12/27/2008 10:20:15 AM PST
by
lowbridge
To: TigerLikesRooster
Got to wonder at this behavior. They already won the election, what are they up to now?
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posted on
12/27/2008 10:25:12 AM PST
by
RightWhale
(We were so young two years ago and the DJIA was 12,000)
To: GOPJ
Aren't some of these folks a part of the group who invested with Bob Modoff?
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posted on
12/27/2008 10:31:59 AM PST
by
quadrant
(1o)
To: TigerLikesRooster
That will be a good list to use for a boycott.
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posted on
12/27/2008 10:36:59 AM PST
by
kcvl
To: skeeter
“Its hard for me to think of words that can express my utter lack of interest in what any of these people do.”
and yet, here you are....
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posted on
12/27/2008 11:03:01 AM PST
by
Bunkasaurus
(I'm indecisive....or am I?)
To: All
Hollywood funds big parties for president-elect Obama.. plan prime time reality version of
West Wing, a weekly documentary of President Obama's day-to-day accomplishments leading the world's peoples to the perfect world . . . networks fight over the rights to the show . . . .
(I bet it's true)
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posted on
12/27/2008 11:06:01 AM PST
by
WilliamofCarmichael
(If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
To: TigerLikesRooster
St. Jude’s could have used that money more wisely.
So could Second Harvest.
To: Bunkasaurus
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posted on
12/27/2008 1:06:18 PM PST
by
skeeter
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