Organizing for Millionaires

Column: The price of access to Obama is too damn high
President Obama at the OFA dinner March 13 / AP

Accumulating the capital to mingle with the likes of Jim Messina and President Obama is an arduous undertaking if you are not already a tech billionaire or Hollywood mogul or green energy venture capitalist or Vogue magazine editor or labor boss.

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OFA

President Obama will speak to a collection of wealthy donors and activists Wednesday evening at a luxury hotel near the White House. The event is called the “Founders Summit,” and it’s the second major donor meeting for the president’s dark money group, Organizing for Action.

Organizing for Access

Ethics attorneys question propriety of Obama dark money org
Messina, Carson / AP, Flickr

Former Bush administration ethics attorneys are raising concerns over the close relationship between a pro-Obama dark money group and the White House.