Who Donated Serious
Money to the Barack Obama Campaign and Who did not
By Robert Oliver
The original title to this article was “Who Donated to
the Barack Obama Campaign and Who did not.” I am compelled for
integrity’s sake to retract a previous assertion that I said that no
Democratic member of the Congressional Black Caucus donated to the Obama
2012 campaign due to the absence of their names in the public Federal
Election Commission database found on
www.fec.gov
and
www.opensecrets.org. What I discovered is that donations less
than $200 were not a part of the initial database. Therefore black
congressional donors may have given $199.99 or less.
Therefore I will not say authoritatively that no black
congressman of the Democratic Party did not give to the Obama 2012
campaign.
However I can comment on the serious money in the
campaign.
Just on a whim, I decided to see who donated to the
Barack Obama presidential campaigns of 2008 and 2012, courtesy of the
Center for Responsive Politics (www.opensecrets.org).
One notable was Harry Alford, CEO of the National
Black Chamber of Commerce of Washington, D.C., who donated $2300 which
was the maximum amount allowed by the Federal Election Commission.
Later he admited that voting for Obama was “the worst mistake I’ve ever
made in my life” (blackquillandink.com/?page_id=11867).
Alford is a Republican.
For whatever reason Mr. Alford donated to the Obama
campaign, it proved that he had some measure of confidence in candidate
Barack Obama. He was willing to write a personal check to
demonstrate so.
However what puzzled me was there were the
congressional supporters of Barack Obama who may not have contributed to
his campaign at all, in the 2008 and/or the 2012 election cycles, as of
I have found many people of many occupations give at
least $200 or more to the Obama campaign. One nurse in
For example, here is an actual FEC record for
Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee:
LEE, SHEILA JACKSON
HOUSTON, TX 77004
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500.00 |
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LEE, SHEILA JACKSON
HOUSTON, TX 77004
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LEE, SHEILA
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1000.00 |
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LEE, SHEILA
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1000.00 |
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300.00 |
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LEE, SHEILA JACKSON THE HONORABLE
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The record did not indicate any substantial donation
to Barack Obama.
The following is a listing of the current Democratic
members of the Congressional Black Caucus and what they have personally
contributed, under their own names, to the Barack Obama campaigns of
2008 (who may not have been elected to Congress for the first election
cycle) and 2012:
The Honorable Karen Bass (Lechuga)
$1000 (2008)
The Honorable Sanford D. Bishop, Jr.
No Record
The Honorable Corrine Brown
No Record
The Honorable G.K. Butterfield
No Record
The Honorable Andre Carson
No Record
The Honorable Donna M. Christensen
No Record
The Honorable Hansen Clarke
No Record
The Honorable Yvette D. Clarke
No Record
The Honorable William Lacy Clay, Jr.
$500 (2008)
The Honorable Emanuel Cleaver II
No Record
The Honorable James E. Clyburn
No Record
The Honorable John Conyers, Jr.
No Record
The Honorable Elijah E. Cummings
$550 (2008)
The Honorable Danny K. Davis
$400 (2008)
The Honorable Donna F. Edwards
$2000 (2008)
The Honorable Keith Ellison
$250 (2008)
The Honorable Chaka Fattah
No Record
The Honorable Marcia L. Fudge
No Record
The Honorable Al Green
No Record
The Honorable Alcee L. Hastings
No Record
The Honorable Jesse L. Jackson, Jr.
No Record
The Honorable Eddie Bernice Johnson
No Record
The Honorable Hank Johnson
No Record
The Honorable Barbara Lee
No Record
The Honorable Sheila Jackson Lee
No Record
The Honorable John Lewis
No Record
The Honorable Gregory W. Meeks
No Record
The Honorable Gwen Moore
$750 (2008)
The Honorable Eleanor Holmes Norton
No Record
The Honorable Charles B. Rangel
No Record
The Honorable Laura Richardson
No Record
The Honorable Cedric Richmond
No Record
The Honorable Bobby L. Rush
No Record
The Honorable David Scott
No Record
The Honorable Robert C. Scott
No Record
The Honorable Terri A. Sewell
$2000 (2008)
The Honorable Bennie Thompson
No Record
The Honorable Edolphus Towns
No Record
The Honorable Maxine Waters
No Record
The Honorable Melvin L. Watt
No Record
The Honorable Frederica Wilson
No Record
Not even former Secretary of State Colin Powell, who
openly supported Obama, contributed any money to the Obama campaign.
But wait! There’s more….
Julian Bond
No Record
Marc Morial
No Record
Rev. Jesse Jackson, Sr.
No Record
Rev. Al Sharpton
No Record
Rev. Al Sampson
No Record
Benjamin Chavis
No Record
Charles S. Dutton (Actor)
No Record
Joy Behar
No Record
Kerry Washington (Actress)
No Record
Janeane Garofalo (Actress)
No Record
Sean (Diddy) Combs
No Record
Keith Olbermann
No Record
Samuel L. Jackson
$2300 (2008)
Denzel Washington
$2300 (2008)
Spike Lee
$2300 (2008)
Russell Simmons
$2300 (2008 &2012)
Angela Bassett
$2300 (2008)
Oprah Winfey
$2300 (2008 & 2012)
Bill
The reader may also reference
http://fundrace.huffingtonpost.com for further research.
In The Declcaration of Indpendence