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Title: Report: 80% of Obama’s Top 2008 Campaign Bundlers Received Political Appointment
Post by: Linda on July 29, 2012, 10:47:58 AM

Report: 80% of Obama’s Top 2008 Campaign Bundlers Received Political Appointments…

I got this from:
http://weaselzippers.us/2012/07/25/report-80-of-obamas-top-2008-campaign-bundlers-received-political-appointments/

With a link to:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/25/us/politics/many-obama-08-fund-raisers-now-unavailable.html?_r=1

Quote

Nearly 80 percent of bundlers who raised $500,000 or more for Mr. Obama were appointed to posts in the administration, according to a 2011 report by the Center for Public Integrity, which tracks campaign finance issues. While most envoys got perches in coveted capitals like Prague, Brussels, Vienna, Copenhagen or Oslo, a few were sent to commercially or politically delicate posts like Canada and South Africa.

Obama campaign bundlers to Obama:

You didn’t become president by yourself.