3 more bundlers gets ambassadorships

From NBC's Domenico Montanaro Three more Obama bundlers have been given ambassadorships by President Obama . Donald Gips (nominee for Ambassador to South Africa) and Nicole Avant (Bahamas) both raised more than half a million dollars for candidate Obama, and David Jacobson (nominated for Ambassador to Canada) bundled between $50,000 and $100,000 for President Obama, according to a bundler list compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics . As we reported a week ago , three other ambassador nominees -- to the U.K, France and Japan -- were also bundlers. As we wrote then for context: Top campaign fundraisers have long gotten these plum posts in past administrations -- Democratic and Republican alike. And then-President-elect Obama, in a Jan. 9 press conference, said, "There probably will be some" ambassadors chosen who were top donors. “It would be disingenuous for me to suggest that there are not going to be some excellent public servants but who haven’t come through the ranks of ... (link)