Not only did President Obama invite a bunch of sycophants to his jobs summit, some of the invitees are also big campaign donors. Dontcha just love the way he’s changed the way things are done in Washington?
According to Federal Election Committee records, of the 29 attendees named on a partial guest list of the 133 forum attendees, five donated personally to Obama while four others work at organizations that contributed heavily to political action committees that supported his campaign.
Several attendees are labor leaders whose political action committees contributed impressive amounts to Obama’s war chest, including one group that gave nearly $29.5 million.
Anna Burger of Change to Win, who is invited to attend the forum, is secretary treasurer of Service Employees International Union Committee on Political Education, or SEIU COPE, a political action committee that gave $29,442,016 to Obama between February 2008 and September 2009. Burger gave Obama $750 in personal contributions.
American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten will also be at the summit. The AFT, along with the AFL-CIO Committee on Political Education, gave Obama $1,997,375 in October 2008. And the United Food & Commercial Workers International Union, which donated $673,309 to Obama from February to October 2008, will also be represented at the forum.
Of the several award-winning economists slated to attend, some are academics who donated hefty amounts to candidate Obama, like Joe Stiglitz of Columbia University, an early supporter who doled out more than $4,000 for his presidential run.
Jeffrey Sachs, a renowned economist and director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, also donated a handsome sum, having contributed $2,600 for Obama’s White House run.
Of the 29 known attendees, only one CEO — Eric Schmidt of Google — donated to Obama. Schmidt gave $25,000 in personal contributions to the president’s inaugural celebration last January. Employees from Google Inc. doled out a whopping $803,436 for Obama’s presidential campaign — the fifth highest of any organization to donate to his record-shattering campaign bounty. …
There are also some representatives from large corporations on the list - who no doubt will be looking for a handout from the government to continue their corporatist tradition.
Oh, and did you notice, SEIU will be represented at the summit? They contributed in more ways than one.
I think I remember something like this in a scene in the old movie, The Godfather.
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There is no hope of any jobs, other than government ones, to come out of this dog and pony show.
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