LGBT Big Money Bundlers for Obama

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from OpenSecrets.org: http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2011/10/lgbt-raising-big-for-barack-obama.html


October 21, 2011

Among the legion of supporters who have bundled big money for President Barack Obama's 2012 re-election campaign is a powerful contingent of openly gay and lesbian fund-raisers.

As OpenSecrets Blog detailed Thursday, more than 350 bundlers have collectively raised at least $56 million for Obama and the Democratic National Committee -- the equivalent of $1 out of every $3 the two organizations have raised. And at least $2.7 million of that sum has come from 12 prominent gay and lesbian advocates, according to research by the Center for Responsive Politics. That's nearly 5 percent of the money all of Obama's bundlers have raised. (http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2011/10/-normal-0-false-false.html)

These gay and lesbian rainmakers include:

Charles Myers, of Evercore Partners, who has bundled at least $500,000
Eugene Sepulveda, of Austin, Texas, who bundled at least $500,000
Andrew Tobias, a writer and treasurer of the DNC, who bundled at least $500,000
Dana Perlman and Barry Karas, of Los Angeles, who bundled at least $500,000
Wally Brewster and Bob Satawake, of Chicago, who bundled at least $100,000
Terry Bean, of Portland, Ore., who bundled at least $200,000
Kathy Levinson, former president and CEO of E-trade, who bundled at least $200,000
Laura Ricketts, of Ecotravel LLC in Chicago, who bundled at least $100,000
Jeff Soref, of New York, who bundled at least $100,000
Fred Eychaner, of Chicago, who bundled at least $50,000
Paul Horning, of Atlanta, who bundled at least $50,000
Kevin Jennings, the former Department of Education official, who bundled at least 50,000


. . . a few of Obama's gay and lesbian bundlers raised enough money during the third quarter to move up in the amount-raised brackets. Those bundlers are: Karas and Perlman, Bean and Levinson.


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