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Underwriting the inauguration
Ben Smith's Blog — ... In the name of transparency, the inauguration committee puts its donor list online in the form of a nice, sortable database, with most of the donors maxing out at $50,000. ...

Obama's Inauguration Donors Released
The Page by Mark Halperin — ... The president-elect's inaugural committee makes public a list of donors Friday who have given or raised money for his four days of festivities. Actress Halle Berry, actor Jamie Foxx, financier George Soros are among those giving the maximum $50,000. Read Obama release here and see searchable donor database here.       ...

Amanda Carpenter: Obama's Big Wig Inagural Donors
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog — ... of $50,000 each towards paying for President-elect Barack Obama’s inaugural expenses. Among the big-name donors are George Soros, Sharon Stone, Halle Berry and Jamie Fox. Jim Henson's (of Muppet fame) daughter Lisa also donated $50,000. Obama's inaugural committee has voluntarily posted their donors online in a searchable format where donors can be identified by amount given, employer, city, state or zip code. All donations more than $200 are disclosed. You can view the database HERE.

Obama Discloses Inauguration Donors
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire — President-elect Obama's inauguration committee made its donor list available online, with many of the donors maxing out their contributions at $50,000 per person. ...

Givers
Hotline On Call Part Deux — ... Barack Obama's Presidential Inaugural Committee released another round of donors today. The list included actress Halle Berry ($50K), Chicago media mogul Fred Eychaner ($50K) and philanthropist/gazillionaire George Soros ($50K). ...

Kudos to the Change.gov New Media Team
techPresident — ... , which looks and feels like it was also done by Phillips' team. Today, it launched a searchable, public database of donors to the Committee, that allows a "virtually real-time" search by the donor’s name, employer, city or state, as well as ...

Daily Digest: The "Obama Internet" Moment?
techPresident — ... Anyone kicking in coin to the Presidential Inauguration Committee is finding themselves included in a searchable and sortable online database. Team Obama is refusing donations from lobbyists, PACS, corporations, and foreign interests, and individuals are limited to $50,000 -- unless you're a "bundler," where the limit is $300,000. Poking around the nascent database, it turns out that just under 170 people have already maxed out personal donations. As of today, ten bundlers (including friend-of-Obama Penny Pritzker) have hit the ceiling. ...

For Inauguration, Famous Donors Have Deep Pockets
Politics Daily — ... For the first time ever, a president-elect's inaugural committee is publishing the names, occupations and addresses of donors to the inaugural fund. Some high-profile names and the size of their checkbooks stick out: ...

Hollywood A-listers spend big bucks on inauguration
Anne Schroeder's Blog — ... I spent some time today looking at the list of donors to the Presidential Inaugural Committee and noticed that many Hollywood A-listers have been contributing big money to help pay for Barack Obama's big day next month. ...

Bill Clinton Asks for Money for Obama Inauguration
The Caucus — ... on the Huffington Post, Abe Silk writes that he is “way over this thing.” “So,” he asks, “why, why, why for the love of God are you still sending me e-mails asking me to give you money? Seriously, I got one on December 30th and January 6th. You guys really want me to donate 25 dollars ‘to make the inauguration a success?’ What on earth does that even mean?” The committee has raised more than $27 million, most of it in single checks of $50,000 and $25,000, and has a goal of between $40 million and $45 million. ...

Chris Weigant: Pay-To-Play: Inauguration Tickets, Only $12,500 Each!
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... At least the official Presidential Inauguration Committee (PIC) is being transparent about this. They not only openly advertised this package deal, but they also have posted the list of big donors on their web site for all to see. You can check it out to see exactly who has ponied up the fifty large so far. Hollywood celebrities such as Halle Berry, Steven Spielberg, and Tom Hanks have paid up, as well as too many corporate CEOs to list here (from companies such as Google, Microsoft, Levi Strauss, Qualcomm, ExxonMobil, Sony BMG, Coca Cola, and others). Almost 400 folks have ...

Bailed-Out Banks Donating To Obama's Inauguration
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed — Citibank executives, who are expected to ask for another billion-dollar federal bailout on top of the $45 billion in rescue funds they received in November, are trying to buy the goodwill of Barack Obama -- or they just want to help the president-elect throw the best inauguration party in history. Of the hundreds of banks and firms which have received bailout money, Citibank employees have contributed the most to Obama's inauguration fund -- at least $113,000 as of Wednesday. Among those contributions is $50,000 from Ray McGuire, Citi's co-head of global ...

Bailed-Out Banks Donating To Obama's Inauguration
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — Citibank executives, who are expected to ask for another billion-dollar federal bailout on top of the $45 billion in rescue funds they received in November, are trying to buy the goodwill of Barack Obama -- or they just want to help the president-elect throw the best inauguration party in history. Of the hundreds of banks and firms which have received bailout money, Citibank employees have contributed the most to Obama's inauguration fund -- at least $113,000 as of Wednesday. Among those contributions is $50,000 from Ray McGuire, Citi's co-head of global ...

The Circus Is In Town
Wizbang — ... Queen Latifah, Denzel Washington, and many more I don't care to write about. Many "celebrities" have also donated large amounts of money for the festivities, some up to $50,000 each, including: George Soros, Will Smith, Steven Spielberg, Kate Spielberg, Jeffery Katzenberger, Jamie Foxx, Halle Berry, Ron Howard, Samuel Jackson, Sharon Stone, Robert Zemeckis, and many more I don't care to write about. (You can see a list of all the people who contributed at least $200 and up at the Inaugural Committee Donors page.) I've always viewed the inauguration of the President of the ...

Inaugural Nonsense on the Right
Firedoglake — ... about "big donors") all but 5,632 of the 200,000 donations they've received were less than $200, for an average donation of $34. ...

Hullabaloo — ... cost nonsense that seems to be sweeping the media today. But this really takes the cake: Bush's inaugural donors were mostly individuals, lobbyists and companies with a vested interest in high oil prices, deregulation,** and the mortgage bubble. The Obama team isn't taking money from lobbyists or companies, has lowered the top donation from Bush's $250k to $50k, and (we find tucked into the bottom of a Politico story about "big donors") all but 5,632 of the 200,000 donations they've received were less than $200, for an average donation ...