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amborin

(16,631 posts)
Sun Oct 28, 2012, 11:21 PM Oct 2012

Obama's top donor:

DreamWorks boss leads Hollywood push to bring Obama a fairytale ending

Jeffrey Katzenberg is president's top donor and has persuaded much of Hollywood to back him a second time


"....Katzenberg has spent more than $3m (£1.85m) of his own fortune on the contest, making him Obama's top donor, followed by Irwin Jacobs, the founder of semiconductor maker Qualcomm, Fred Eychaner, a newspaper publisher, and Jon Stryker, heir to the equipment manufacturer Stryker Corp.

In addition to dipping into his personal fortune, estimated by Forbes at $800m, Katzenberg has almost single-handedly persuaded much of Hollywood to again back the president......"

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/oct/28/dreamworks-hollywood-obama-fairytale-ending
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teddy51

(3,491 posts)
1. Well tell him to get his checkbook out and anti up some big bucks in order to get
Sun Oct 28, 2012, 11:26 PM
Oct 2012

this thing over the top! Sounds like he could anti up a couple hundred million and not even miss it.

Ya can't take it with ya when you depart.

flamingdem

(39,313 posts)
2. Fantastic, makes me proud to be involved with the biz, sometimes shallow
Sun Oct 28, 2012, 11:29 PM
Oct 2012

Sometimes absolutely human and progressive.

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