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Showing Original Post only (View all)Nearly 80 percent of those who collected more than $500,000 for Obama took key administration posts. [View all]
Obama rewards big bundlers with jobs, commissions, stimulus money, government contracts, and more
http://www.publicintegrity.org/2011/06/15/4880/obama-rewards-big-bundlers-jobs-commissions-stimulus-money-government-contracts-and
By Fred Schulte, The Center for Public Integrity
2:00 am, June 15, 2011 Updated: 12:19 pm, May 19, 2014
More than two years after President Obama took office vowing to banish special interests from his administration, nearly 200 of his biggest donors have landed plum government jobs and advisory posts, won federal contracts worth millions of dollars for their business interests or attended numerous elite White House meetings and social events, an investigation by iWatch News has found.
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The iWatch News investigation found:
Overall, 184 of 556, or about one-third, of Obama bundlers or their spouses joined the administration in some role. But the percentages are much higher for the big-dollar bundlers. Nearly 80 percent of those who collected more than $500,000 for Obama took key administration posts, as defined by the White House. More than half the ambassador nominees who were bundlers raised more than half a million.
The big bundlers had broad access to the White House for meetings with top administration officials and glitzy social events. In all, campaign bundlers and their family members account for more than 3,000 White House meetings and visits. Half of them raised $200,000 or more.
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The cluster of appointments among top bundlers suggests that the size of the donation may have been a factor at least in getting a foot in the door. Less than one in five at the $50,000 level got an administration position. Half of $200,000 bundlers were picked for some post; 80 percent of the $500,000 bundlers were appointed. (Some have since left the administration while others remain in their posts.)
http://www.publicintegrity.org/2011/06/15/4880/obama-rewards-big-bundlers-jobs-commissions-stimulus-money-government-contracts-and
By Fred Schulte, The Center for Public Integrity
2:00 am, June 15, 2011 Updated: 12:19 pm, May 19, 2014
More than two years after President Obama took office vowing to banish special interests from his administration, nearly 200 of his biggest donors have landed plum government jobs and advisory posts, won federal contracts worth millions of dollars for their business interests or attended numerous elite White House meetings and social events, an investigation by iWatch News has found.
...
The iWatch News investigation found:
Overall, 184 of 556, or about one-third, of Obama bundlers or their spouses joined the administration in some role. But the percentages are much higher for the big-dollar bundlers. Nearly 80 percent of those who collected more than $500,000 for Obama took key administration posts, as defined by the White House. More than half the ambassador nominees who were bundlers raised more than half a million.
The big bundlers had broad access to the White House for meetings with top administration officials and glitzy social events. In all, campaign bundlers and their family members account for more than 3,000 White House meetings and visits. Half of them raised $200,000 or more.
...
The cluster of appointments among top bundlers suggests that the size of the donation may have been a factor at least in getting a foot in the door. Less than one in five at the $50,000 level got an administration position. Half of $200,000 bundlers were picked for some post; 80 percent of the $500,000 bundlers were appointed. (Some have since left the administration while others remain in their posts.)
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woo me with science
Dec 2014
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Rec only for visibility and not because I approve of the kind of cronyism described by Schulte.
merrily
Dec 2014
#5
Kinda like putting wealthy sellers of Hair Growth products in charge of HEW.
Tierra_y_Libertad
Dec 2014
#10
He should be out of prison right now. That Siegelman is still in prison does not speak well for
JDPriestly
Dec 2014
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