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Posted on 07/17/2011 6:29:36 PM PDT by Nachum
WASHINGTON — The Obama re-election team released the names of more than 244 mega-fund-raisers Friday — including 31 who raised at least $500,000 to bankroll the Obama 2012 campaign and the Democratic National Committee.
The fund-raisers are known in the political business as “bundlers,” people who use their extensive networks to raise money on behalf of a candidate. The Obama for America campaign calls their bundlers “volunteer fund-raisers.”
The Obama team disclosed the 244 bundlers (in a few cases couples or business partners were counted as one bundling unit) who collected at least $50,000. No one from the Chicago area — or Illinois for that matter — hit the elite ranks of bundlers who raised at least $500,000.
The list contained the names of 21 Obama bundlers from the Chicago area, many who were bundlers for 2008:
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Raising millions to get the “big money” out of politics.
Now pay your taxes - the government is broke. :)
Just raking in (taking back) the stimulus money given to the unions.
The slush stimulus con job in action.
The mother’s milk of democrat politicians.
This is exactly why public union collective bargaining is no different than dealing with the devil and has to come to an end.
Commies certainly have big bucks.
† $50,000 to $100,000: ComEd’s Frank Clark; in dustrialist James Crown; Newsweb’s Fred Eychaner; Molly and William Mahoney; Steve Cohen; lawyer Judd Miner; lawyer David Solow, and Tabula Tua’s Grace Tsao-Wu.
† $100,000 to $200,000: Real estate executive Bob Satawake and James “Wally Brewster; Mesirow’s Les Coney; Goldman Sachs’ Vicki Heyman; Transunion’s Penny Pritzker, who was Obama’s 2008 national fi nance chair; Cubs executive Laura Ricketts, and Catbird’s Tamar Newberger and Andy Schapiro.
† $200,000 to $500,000: Walton St. Capital’s Neil Bluhm; Ariel’s John Rogers and Mellody Hobson, and Grosvenor Capital’s Michael Sacks.
Obama has rewarded his best fund-raisers from his 2008 campaign, from handing out ambassadorships —
According to the Center for Public Integrity, one-third of the Obama 2008 campaign’s 556 bundlers were appointed by Obama to jobs or advisory posts. Of the mega fund-raisers — those raising more than $500,000 in 2008, fully 80 percent landed “key administration” posts — many on advisory panels. According to CPI, 24 bundlers are serving as ambassadors.
A few? So I guess the rest were the FILTHY RICH that the 0media keep hidden and DON'T pay higher taxes because they're 0bama's donors?
are they sure it wasn’t 666 fund raisers?
Party of the RICH?
The list is dominated by Jews.
Laundered money from George Soros and foreign governments.
Bundling or not, all the names and amounts contributed must still be revealed to insure none went over the limit
0bama did this last round by having thousands Of unnamed donators under $500. Of course, $10 million would have been donated in a series of ‘minor’ donations from anonymous sources
Don’t forget all the bundlers over in the West Bank and Gaza...
That would be refreshing at least.
Somewhere down the road people will take a serious look at these people and why they want this hateful and incompetent man to be our president.
Amazing the Stockholm Syndrome ,is alive and well,they just LOVE people that hate their Guts!
Judd Malkin & Neil Blum
Partners ran powerhouse JMB Realty during 1980s, managed $26 billion in office buildings, shopping malls, apartments, hotels. Pummeled by real estate downturn early 1990s; stuck it out, now enjoying rising values. Developing Niagara Falls casino with Pritzker family. Controls Four Seasons hotels in Chicago, Scottsdale, Ariz. Backed Barack Obama's successful U.S. Senate run.
These would be the BILLIONAIRES with jets if they supported Republicans but supporting Obama they are "just" everyday businessmen & contributors.
Neil Bum - Net Worth $1.8 B
As of March 2011
Bluhm hosted a birthday party for the President when he turned 49 in August (price of admission: a $30,000 contribution to the DNC). Bluhm's other political connections in Illinois enabled him to build a casino near O'Hare airport, which is under development close to Chicago's city limits.
John W. Rogers launched the first black-owned mutual fund in the United States at the age of 24. He is a value investor focusing on small and medium size companies.
Rogers is a board member of Aon , Exelon and McDonald’s He is also chairman of the Economic Club of Chicago and a board member of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. Rogers chairs the foundation’s investment committee.
Rogers served on President Obama’s presidential inaugural committee in 2009.
White House social secretary Desiree Rogers, a longtime Obama family friend from Chicago
Rogers was once married to millionaire and Chicago financier John Rogers, the head of Ariel Capital Management and another close Obama friend and fundraiser.
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