[Alberta's Child]

I'm sure people have been buying ambassadorships for a long time. For most countries it's not even a serious position in government, anyway.

But when someone donates $3.5M in exchange for a job that probably only pays about $150,000/year, alarm bells really go off all over the place ... because the return on that investment is ultimately going be huge, and it's not going to be obvious.

[IVAXMAN]

Donor rank ,  Name,   Position given for Pay to Play

#1 Matthew Berzun … Ambassador to UK
#2 Julius Genachowski … Former chairman to FCC
#3 Frank Sanchez…. Under secretary of commerce
#8 Kirk Wagner… Ambassador to Singapore
#9 Alan Solomont … Ambassador to Spain
#11 John Roos… Ambassador to Japan
#12 Nicole Avant… Ambassador to Bahamas
#13 Eileen Chamberlain Donahoe … Ambassador to the UN
#16 Steve Westly – CFO of California
#17 Don Beyer – Ambassador to Switzerland
#21 Don Gips – Ambassador to South Africa
#22 Howard Gutman – Ambassador to Belgium
#24 Cynthia Stroum – Ambassador to Luxembourg
#27 Mark Gilbert – Ambassador to New Zealand
#31 Norm Eisen – Ambassador to Czech Republic
#37 Bruce Oreck – Ambassador to Finland
#43 Tony West – deputy Attorney General
#45 Bill Kennard – Ambassador to EU

[mrsmith]

Yeah, ambassadorships don’t raise the eyebrow so much. Only Republican presidents get raked over by the media for them.
Three and a half million... that’s an outrageous sum that makes anyone wonder what’s going on.