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[chart] Stan Chesley among inaugural donors giving $50,000


Thank you, Poynter:

President-elect Barack Obama’s upcoming inauguration is going to be expensive: up to $40 million. To help pay for it, his transition team is taking donations. To their credit, they’re being transparent about this process. They’ve posted a sortable online spreadsheet of all inauguration donors and bundlers. (Hat tip to the Los Angeles Times for providing a link to the spreadsheet in the paper’s inaugural roundup story.)

There is gold here for journalists looking for stories linking locals or celebrities to Obama …

Again, the link to click for the sortable online spreadsheet of all inauguration donors and bundlers is here – and it is nice!

Oh – who is Stan Chesley? Read about him here – Jim Petro is one of his partners.  Here are the other Ohioans on the list:

Ohio Obama Inauguration donors

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 2:58 pm December 26th, 2008 in Barack Obama, Democrats, Government, Ohio, Politics, PostWH2008 

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One Response to “[chart] Stan Chesley among inaugural donors giving $50,000”

  1. 1 John Ettorre on December 29th, 2008 1:02 pm

    Stan Chesley first came to wide attention, at least in political circles, as one of Ohio Governor Dick Celeste’s leading backers. He later helped bankroll Celeste when he set out his lobbying shingle, and was also his chief legal defender and saber rattler in going after all enemies, real and imagined. He got rich in part from being one of a handful of superlawyers lucky enough to be cut in on the gravy train that was the tobacco settlement cases.

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