Posted on 10/16/2009 3:43:07 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
Sacramento real estate developer Eleni Tsakopoulos-Kounalakis and her husband have contributed $438,880 to federal candidates, committees and leadership PACs since 1989, with 95 percent of the money going to Democratic candidates and committees, according to a new report by the Center for Responsive Politics (CRP)
Last Friday, President Barack Obama announced that Tsakopoulos-Kounalakis is his choice to become the new ambassador to Hungary. She is married to Markos Kounalakis, who is the president of Washington Monthly.
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* -- The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, with $41,000 since 1999,
* -- Democratic Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, with $24,000 since 1997,
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Four percent of her contributions went to Republicans, including $6,000 since 1991 to Sen. Olympia Snowe of Maine.
Those are the kind of folks who usually get ambassadorships. It’s hardly ‘change we can believe in’, but I wouldn’t call it out of the ordinary either.
The fundraising dinner tonight in San Fransisco is for the poor and little people. It’s only $38k per couple.
Sounds like she still didn’t grease enough palms to get Athens.
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