Obama campaign releases list of top fundraisers

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Obama campaign releases list of top fundraisers
By KEN THOMAS, Associated Press | March 2, 2013 | Updated: March 2, 2013 12:24pm

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama's top fundraisers brought in at least $186 million for the president's re-election campaign.

Obama's campaign released a list of 770 top donors on Saturday who brought in between $186.6 million and $268 million. The president's re-election campaign raised nearly $1 billion to defeat Republican Mitt Romney.

Nearly 250 campaign bundlers each raised at least $500,000 for the president. Those donors included actors Will Smith and his wife, Jada Pinkett-Smith, Eva Longoria, Wendell Pierce and film producer Harvey Weinstein.

Other top donors included musician Gwen Stefani, fashion editor Anna Wintour, Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley and Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe.


Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/politics/article/Obama-campaign-releases-list-of-top-fundraisers-4323039.php

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[JaneyVee]

1. Much less sinister than Romney's Koch Bros & Sheldon Adelson

[gateley]

2. Not sinister at all -- all "good guys" in my book. I wish I could be on that list.

[JaneyVee]

3. Thats what I'm saying.

[gateley]

6. I know -- after I posted I thought "I hope she doesn't think I

was "correcting" her". It was more of a +1.

[blkmusclmachine]

8. Too bad "good guys" doesn't translate into good legislation

Bipartisanship sucks

[gateley]

9. Yeah. *sigh* I'm just now watching West Wing for the first time --

and seeing what they had to give up to get really hit home. And their Republicans weren't as horrible as the current ones!

It's really been a jaw-dropping experience watching it. Except for no iPads or constant texting (and a BIG computer monitor here and there) these stories could have been taken right from today's headlines. They just went through a brief sequester! Sent home the non-essential Fed employees. Amazing.

We've GOT to get the House back, and get some REAL filibuster change in the Senate.

[davidpdx]

4. Wow, this really backs up the claims

some are making about Obama being a corporatist.

[Le Taz Hot]

21. This is a list of "bundlers" only.

Here's the REAL list:

http://www.opensecrets.org/pres12/index.php

[pnwmom]

5. Does anyone know where to read the list? n/t

[aggiesal]

10. www.opensecrets.org

You can find who donated to which candidate and how much.
Here is a list of the top Obama donors.

1. University of California. $1,212,333
2 Microsoft Corp $815,536
3 Google Inc $805,120
4 US Government $724,997
5 Harvard University $663,968


Here are Mitt Romney's top donors

1 Goldman Sachs. $1,033,204
2 Bank of America $1,009,402
3 Morgan Stanley $911,055
4 JPMorgan Chase & Co $833,096
5 Wells Fargo. $674,076

[pnwmom]

11. Thanks, aggiesal!

[pnwmom]

12. Do you mean that individual donations from people at those orgs

added up to the figures given?

I just looked at the site and can't figure out how to see the actual list.

[aggiesal]

13. Yes.

[pnwmom]

15. It doesn't seem right to list them by org that way then.

It's hardly surprising that a bunch of faculty at UCal and Harvard thought Obama would be the better President.

[aggiesal]

14. Oooops

In theory it should, but I don't think they'll list the small $5 - $10 donors.

[aggiesal]

16. When you go to the site Select Obama

Then look for the tab that says Contributors.

Here is Obama contributors starting at 6

Kaiser Permanente $587,586
Stanford University $512,106
Columbia University $451,309
Deloitte LLP $450,525
Time Warner $438,271
Sidley Austin LLP $402,336
DLA Piper $401,890
IBM Corp $370,329
Walt Disney Co $369,298
University of Chicago $356,685
US Dept of State $344,459
University of Michigan $339,806
Comcast Corp $336,628
US Dept of Justice $320,659
Apple Inc $307,831

[aggiesal]

18. Here are Mitt Romney's donors starting at 6

Credit Suisse Group $640,620
Deloitte LLP $609,124
Kirkland & Ellis $518,041
Citigroup Inc $510,199
PricewaterhouseCoopers $459,400
UBS AG $448,540
Barclays $446,000
Ernst & Young $390,492
HIG Capital $382,904
Blackstone Group $366,525
General Electric $332,875
EMC Corp $320,679
Bain Capital $285,970
Elliott Management $281,675
Rothman Institute $259,500h

[blkmusclmachine]

7. Let me guess ...

Big Money
Big Money
Big Money

[pnwmom]

17. Romney got almost 3x as much in donations from the finance sector.

http://www.opensecrets.org/pres12/index.php?ql3

[aggiesal]

19. Not surprising . . .

And universities giving to Obama doesn't surprise me either.


What did surprise me was that high tech companies gave so much to Obama.

[pnwmom]

20. I'm not surprised. Many of those companies have ties to UCal.

All the tech people I know here (in WA) voted for Obama. Of course, I don't exactly surround myself with Rethugs . . .