newtothegame
06-15-2011, 12:43 PM
Guess there is no limit on how far politics will go...!!!!
Top Barack Obama donors net government jobs
FRED SCHULTE, JOHN ALOYSIUS FARRELL AND JEREMY BORDEN -- IWATCH NEWS | 6/15/11 4:37 AM EDT
Telecom executive Donald H. Gips raised a big bundle of cash to help finance his friend Barack Obama’s run for the presidency.
Gips, a vice president of Colorado-based Level 3 Communications, delivered more than $500,000 in contributions for the Obama war chest, while two other company executives collected at least $150,000 more.
After the election, Gips was put in charge of hiring in the Obama White House (http://www.politico.com/politico44/), helping to place loyalists and fundraisers in many key positions. Then, in mid-2009, Obama named him ambassador to South Africa. Meanwhile, Level 3 Communications, in which Gips retained stock, received millions of dollars of government stimulus contracts for broadband projects in six states — though Gips said he had been “completely unaware” that the company had received the contracts
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0611/56993.html#ixzz1PMcSEJGg
Top Barack Obama donors net government jobs
FRED SCHULTE, JOHN ALOYSIUS FARRELL AND JEREMY BORDEN -- IWATCH NEWS | 6/15/11 4:37 AM EDT
Telecom executive Donald H. Gips raised a big bundle of cash to help finance his friend Barack Obama’s run for the presidency.
Gips, a vice president of Colorado-based Level 3 Communications, delivered more than $500,000 in contributions for the Obama war chest, while two other company executives collected at least $150,000 more.
After the election, Gips was put in charge of hiring in the Obama White House (http://www.politico.com/politico44/), helping to place loyalists and fundraisers in many key positions. Then, in mid-2009, Obama named him ambassador to South Africa. Meanwhile, Level 3 Communications, in which Gips retained stock, received millions of dollars of government stimulus contracts for broadband projects in six states — though Gips said he had been “completely unaware” that the company had received the contracts
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0611/56993.html#ixzz1PMcSEJGg