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INAUGURATION: Barack Obama’s 21 Biggest Fans

By Josh Israel | December 19, 2008, 2:37 pm

image Speculating on the next ambassadors to countries blessed by warm and cozy climates? You could do worse than starting with this list: Twenty-one individuals who have donated to Obama’s campaign and the inaugural committee, and have also bundled campaign contributions for the president-elect.

The Presidential Inaugural Committee has, so far, released the names of nearly 450 individuals who have donated more than $200 toward the January festivities.

Among these donors, 39 had been identified by the Barack Obama campaign as bundlers of $50,000 of more.

While most of those 39 bundlers personally contributed, 21 of them gave the maximum of $4,600 in contributions for Obama’s primary and general election campaigns. They are:

  • Mitchell Berger of Parkland, Florida, an attorney
  • Frank Brosens of Bedford, New York, a capital investor with Taconic Capital Partners
  • Robert Clark of St. Louis, chairman and CEO of Clayco, a real estate development company
  • Blair Effron of New York, an investment banker with Center View Partners
  • Suzanne Faber of Chicago
  • Alan Fox of Studio City, California, president of ACF Property Management
  • Howard Gottlieb of Evanston, Illinois
  • Edward Haddock of Winter Park, Florida, CEO of the Full Sail University, an entertainment media college.
  • Donald Hinkle of Tallahassee, Florida, an attorney
  • Mark Iola of Dallas, an attorney
  • Wayne Jordan of Oakland, California, a real estate investor
  • Michael Kempner of Cresskill, New Jersey, president of the MWW Group, a public relations firm
  • Daniel Loeb of New York, an investment manager with Third Point LLC
  • Barbara Manilow of Chicago
  • Neal Manne of Houston, an attorney
  • Cappy McGarr of Dallas, a capital investor
  • Hassan Nemazee of New York, a capital investor
  • Bruce Oreck of Boulder, Colorado, an attorney
  • Michael Sacks of Highland Park, Illinois, a hedge fund manager for Grosvenor Capital Management
  • Beatrice Welters of McLean, Virginia, chairman of the An Bryce Foundation
  • Frank White of Silver Spring, Maryland
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  1. Posted by: Amanda on December 23, 2008, 2:09 am

    One of the problems is that democracy has been subsumed under capitalism, Big Global Capitalism. And with the world human population rocketing out of control, we will see an increase in the exploitation of persons worldwide. Iv’e heard the term, “human capital” used several times recently by politians. This is a dangerous and dehumanizing trend. By the way, war is dehumanizing. Observe what the military is doing to our young men and women; they are all beginning to look like Hummers, stunted, blunted, and intellectually dazed.

    Additionally, we must stop the microscopic attention to individuals and begin evaluating the social, political, and economic systems we’ve wrought. What we have now is not working; well, maybe for those who have ascended to the ruling class.

    Amanda

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