Wednesday, June 19, 2013

If you had coughed up enough cash, maybe you too could have been a U.S. Ambassador

President Obama named some of the major financial backers of his 2012 reelection campaign to top European ambassadorships on Friday, ahead of his trip to Northern Ireland for next week's G8 summit. 
The White House said that Obama had named John Emerson as the next ambassador to Germany. According to the president's campaign, Emerson raised at least half a million dollars last year for the president's reelection effort, topping the between $100,000 and $200,000 he netted for Obama's 2008 presidential campaign.
Obama has also nominated Rufus Gifford, a former finance director for the Democratic National Committee and finance director of his reelection campaign, as the next ambassador to Denmark. Gifford also served as a major fundraiser for John Kerry's 2004 presidential campaign and the chairman of the president's inaugural committee.
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