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President-Elect Obama is putting online a chart of his inaugural donors in the interest of transparence. The maximum donation Obama's Presidential Inauguration Committee won't accept any more than $50,000 per person, which is like a billion in this economy and we are curious as to who can swing that. Some of the names of people that are donating are interesting. Like:
Bill Gates, the maximum $50,000 (His wife, Melinda also gave $50,000)
Microsoft CEO Steven Ballmer, $50,000 (Ballmer's wife, Connnie also donated the maximum, $50,000)
Former Touched By An Angel star Roma (Downey) Burnett, $25,000.
Oscar winner Jamie Fox, $50,000.
Rob Glaser, Founder, Chairman and CEO of RealNetworks, Inc., $50,000.
Barry Gordy, Motown founder, $50,000.
Film director and British Baron Christopher Guest, $25,000.
Lisa Henson, co-CEO of the Jim Henson Company, $50,000.
Ron Howard, Academy Award winning director, $50,000.
Socialite Marlene Hess, $50,000.
Former BET Chief Reggie Hudlin, $25,000.
YouTube CEO Chad Hurley, $25,000.
CNBC business analyst Ron Insana, $50,000.
Actor Samuel L. Jackson, $50,000.
Magic Johnson, $25,000.
Jeffrey Katzenberg, $50,000 (and his wife, Marilyn, also donated the max, $50,000)
Film producer, James Lassiter, $50,000.
Hedge Fund Cowboy, Daniel Loeb, $25,000 (that's all?)
Harvard Business School Professor, Jay W. Lorsch, $25,000.
Miami socialite Amarilis Osorio, $50,000.
Billionaire Ron Perelman, $50,000.
Oracle President, Charles E. Phillips, Jr., $50,000.
DefJam's Antonio "LA Reid, $50,000.
Linda Rice, Chairperson and CEO, Johnson Publishing Company, Inc., $50,000.
Laurance Rockefeller, $38,000.
Google's chairman and CEO Eric Schmidt, $25,000.
Time Warner's Joanna Shields, $25,000.
D.E. Shaw founder, David Shaw, $50,000.
Financial journalist Andrew Tobias, $10,000.
Leslie & Robert Zemeckis, $50,000.
Some impressions: lots of Silicon Valley $$ here (And, predictably, Hollywood donations, financiers and African-American wealth).
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