Find out donors to Obama's inaugural
Saying it shows his commitment to openness, President-elect Barack Obama's inaugural committee today unveiled a searchable database of donors.
"This tool demonstrates the new administration's commitment to changing business-as-usual in Washington, DC," John W. Rogers, Jr., a committee co-chairman, said in a statement.
The online database will include information on any donor who gives at least $200 and will be updated regularly, with information on each new donation appearing within 48 hours, the committee said. .
It also announced that, for the first time, it will disclose information on donors who bundle contributions for the inaugural committee, including the amount they have bundled, which will be capped at $300,000 for individual bundlers.
Individuals are restricted to $50,000 each, and the committee is not accepting money from corporations, political action committees, labor unions, current federally-registered lobbyists, noncitizens, or registered foreign agents.
The biggest-dollar donors so far include John F. Cogan Jr. of Cambridge, former chairman and managing partner of what is now the WilmerHale law firm, and Paul Egerman of Weston, chairman of eScription, and his wife Joanne.
The list also includes actress Halle Berry, actor Jamie Foxx, and financier George Soros.
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This is great. But where's a donation from George Clooney, Morgan Freeman, Denzel, Oprah, Gayle King? I saw that Sharon Stone also gave.
Lots of people are being laid off, there is nothing to celebrate, Obama should be more sensitive toward people losing jobs, he should donate the money to people who lost their houses thru forclosures.
so is he gonna do the same thing with his campaign financing under $200?
of course not, because most of it came from overseas subversives
Wouldn't it be better for the Obama Administration to talk about how is he going to stop all these companies bailout and save the taxpayers rather than bragging about his donors and how much he make?. Here we are glaring at this monster of bailouts that is moving fast and fury and they rather have us hear and marvel at how big the donations they recieved.Hey that's great but lets worry about whats coming our way right now and start drafting out a taxpayers rescue plan.It is good to help troublesome companies but by teaching them how to manage and run their day to day business activities so in the end CEOs down to the workforce are treated equal.
How very interesting he's revealing who's donating to his "coronation" (at a time when people are losing jobs/houses right and left - but still has to put on the big expensive show, doesn't he!). But he won't reveal who donated to his campaign with under $200 amounts....as emoorek said - it's because some of it came from overseas, which is ILLEGAL and against federal campaign contribution laws. Or multiple contributions made on the same credit card under false names/addresses because he chose NOT to turn on the Address Verification System switch.
But of course - there won't be ANY mention of that.
Some of you cannot get over the fact
OBAMA WON