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Obama
Staffs White House with Top Donors
by Wynton
Hall
March 14, 2012
Over half
of the President Obama’s 47 top fundraisers--individuals who helped bag
a
minimum of $500,000 for his presidential campaign--have been given jobs
in the
Obama White House. The latest revelation of crony capitalism, which was
reported by the Washington Post, also found that nine more top bundlers
landed
appointments to presidential boards and committees and that 24 more
were given
foreign ambassadorships.
White House
spokesperson Eric Schultz spun the revelation this way:
“In filling
these posts, the administration looks for the most qualified candidates
who
represent Americans from all walks of life. Being a donor does not get
you a
job in this administration, nor does it preclude you from getting one.”
The Foreign
Service Act of 1980 expressly prohibits the consideration of political
donations as a factor in appointing ambassadorships. Presently, 59 of
Mr.
Obama’s ambassadors were not career Foreign Service officers, and of
them,
thePost says 40% were Obama fundraisers.
Susan
Johnson, President of the American Foreign Service Association,
registered her
concern about the apparent Obama graft:
“We think
that the pendulum has swung a bit too far toward the patronage side of
things,”
said Susan Johnson, president of the American Foreign Service
Association,
which represents career officers.
Not all
political appointees have been bad ambassadors, Johnson said, but some
have
been less qualified, making them “costly in terms of advancing and
protecting
our interests and costly for the taxpayers.”
No word yet
on whether Capitol Hill Republicans plan to launch an investigation
into
whether the Obama White House is in violation of the Foreign Service
Act of
1980 for rewarding those who raised over $500,000 in campaign
contributions
with coveted ambassadorships.
Source:
Breitbart
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