Posted on 04/29/2012 10:30:34 AM PDT by Nachum
President Obama has nominated a top campaign bundler to be the next U.S. ambassador to the Netherlands, following in a rich presidential tradition of granting diplomatic posts to big-dollar fundraisers.
The White House announced this past week that Maryland lawyer Timothy Broas would be nominated for the Dutch ambassadorship.
According to the Obama campaign, Broas has helped raise more than $500,000 for the 2012 reelection effort. By law, Broas cannot contribute all that money himself -- so he, like other so-called "bundlers," serves as a fundraising point person and collects money from others to donate to the campaign.
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the guy can get high over there all he wants
Years ago I knew an ambassador and it cost him hundreds of thousands of dollars because the gov’t didn’t pay for the entertaining he had to do.
He’ll have the job for nine months only.
Draining that swamp!
I loathe that POS 0dumbo and his vile wife moochelle and hate what he is trying to do to our country
however this perk has long long been used to reward big donors
there are so many embassies and each has a non political staff the rewarded donors don’t make many decisions.
On this one issue i do not fault the POS. Odumbo is merely doing what others have long done
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