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The pay-to-govern Administration

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Seems that the secret to landing a plum job in the Obama Administration is quite similar to some of the strategies used in the city where the president cut his political teeth.

According to Politico:

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.

To wit:

Overall, 184 of 556, or about one-third of Obama bundlers or their spouses joined the administration in some role. But the percentages are much higher for the big-dollar bundlers. Nearly 80 percent of those who collected more than $500,000 for Obama took “key administration posts,” as defined by the White House. More than half the 24 ambassador nominees who were bundlers raised $500,000.

Via Instapundit.  Do wonder, to borrow an expression from David Axelrod, if this information will be scrutinized as much perhaps as Sarah Palin’s e-mails.

Comments

  4. However, given Obama ran specifically on ending “special interests,” this is another nail in his political coffin. Like Animal Farm, special interest is determined by the opposing party. Obama has given unfettered access to his union cronies. But in giving political play for his unions, he’s also lost traction in the job creation since unions are one of the factors holding back private job growth.

  5. Yes, the MFM will get right on that Obama corruption thingy… just as soon as they finish their 9 days of continuous, in-depth coverage of Sarah Palin mispronouncing the word “foliage.”