Jim Messina, President Barack Obama’s former campaign manager, is still making $7,000 per month from Obama’s 2012 campaign, Politico reports. A former top White House official and the head of President Barack Obama’s personal advocacy group is joining the board of a green energy company backed by a major Democratic donor that recently received millions in federal contracts. 
Former aides to President Barack Obama are beginning to capitalize on high-paying opportunities to take sides on key issues that the president will face in his second term. 
President Obama's dark money group Organizing for Action (OFA) announced Friday a first-quarter fundraising total of approximately $4.8 million. 
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. 
Fewer than 100 people attending the opening session of the two-day "Founders Summit" for Organizing for Action, the new 501(c)(4) restructuring of what was formerly the Obama reelection campaign. 
Organizing for Action, President Barack Obama's dark money group, will accept donations from labor unions, according to a report in the Los Angeles Times. 
Former Bush administration ethics attorneys are raising concerns over the close relationship between a pro-Obama dark money group and the White House. 
The new Obama advocacy nonprofit Organizing for Action is reportedly considering a merger with a left-wing umbrella group whose financiers have ties to Palestinian terrorists and Central American Marxists.
