Report: Nearly 200 Of Obama’s Top Campaign Donors Given Plum Government Jobs, Federal Contracts Worth Millions, High-Level Access To White House Events…
Shady as shady gets, but hey, it’s the Chicago way.
(Politico) — Telecom executive Donald H. Gips raised a big bundle of cash to help finance his friend Barack Obama’s run for the presidency.
Gips, a vice president of Colorado-based Level 3 Communications, delivered more than $500,000 in contributions for the Obama war chest, while two other company executives collected at least $150,000 more.
After the election, Gips was put in charge of hiring in the Obama White House, helping to place loyalists and fundraisers in many key positions. Then, in mid-2009, Obama named him ambassador to South Africa. Meanwhile, Level 3 Communications, in which Gips retained stock, received millions of dollars of government stimulus contracts for broadband projects in six states — though Gips said he had been “completely unaware” that the company had received the contracts.
More than two years after 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.
These “bundlers” raised at least $50,000 — and sometimes more than $500,000 — in campaign donations for Obama’s campaign. Many of those in the “Class of 2008” are now being asked to bundle contributions for Obama’s reelection, an effort that could cost $1 billion.
As a candidate, Obama spoke passionately about diminishing the clout of moneyed interests. Kicking off his presidential run on Feb. 10, 2007, he blasted “the cynics, the lobbyists, the special interests,” who had “turned our government into a game only they can afford to play.”
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Money doesn’t just talk, it buys(a Wanna-be Dictator).
the WH whore
Most transparent administration ever. Too bad the 52% didn’t want to see through the bullshit facade. Given all of that with a complicit media, I fully expect the GOP to pull defeat from the jaws of victory.
This is the “investment” Obama talks about. The stock market is for suckers, the real money is in Obama contributions.
Isn’t there anything this guy can be impeached for yet?
You can bet the MSM will not be investigating” this although during the Bush years we heard the Halliburton=Cheney mantra repeated constantly by the left on talk shows, movies, blogs, etc. I think it is safe to say that a large percentage of the 52% that did vote for him do not even know what Halliburton or Cheney is. This is the same group that will never believe O’soros is anything but a great president who inherited all our current problems from the previous administration. GOP ads should capitalize on barry soetoros’ statements about transparency contrasted with donation/payoffs. Im picturing his face and words with dollar signs and payoffs rolling across the screen.
You fucking r’s should be embaressed! It’s all about “hooray for ME and fuck you”!
We all would have been better off if the 9/11 muzzies had hit different targets!
Swamp, hell, it’s a bog with an endless bottom, yet to be discovered!
Hope and Change has been one Hatch Act violation after another. For the right price, exclusive access to any public agency can be had.
The rule making authority that is already a bastardization of the Executive branch, is being sold to the highest bidder. The Separation of Powers doctrine was violated precisely for the purpose of bundling together the authority of our legislature, and trading it as a commodity on the ‘Influence Market’.
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His hypocrisy knows no bounds.
I didn’t know that patronage was abnormal for Washington. I thought I thought I heard that things were going to change; I thought I heard that I had reason to hope. Obviously, if I had ever thought either thought, at this point, I’d have been dead wrong on numerous counts.
Plutocracy has been the norm since at least Nixon. We lost democracy long ago. Citizens United has sealed the deal.
THIS! this is exactly what i told people would happen if they elected this man.
Bush is a war monger in bed w/ big business, Obama is a hero who helps the little guy! EL OH EL FOOLS!
TOLJA!
-President FFM
NYTimes, CNN, WashPost–Sorry, we don’t have the funds or manpower to investigate evident Obama corruption & terrorist association since we already allocated 99% of our budget to destroying Sarah Palin.
Stinking, corrupt cronyism at its most blatant.
I just wanna scream….and scream and scream. Somebody wake us up from this awful nightmare………….
Now there’s a surprise… Obama who lied all through his presidential campaign is still lying. If you were to type up all his lies and place them end to end they would reach the Horsehead Nebula.
The man is a crook, a cheat and a liar par excellence.
The best way to tell what a Leftist is doing is to listen to what he tells you, he will not do.
52%ers, useful idiots. They hold you in the highest contempt.
Did I mention how much I loathe the anointed one (SOS)? The depths of my hatred for him even surprise me….spit…