At least $180 million of the money President Obama — and likely much more — has raised has been collected by 758 “bundlers” who collect money from wealthy friends and associates, and who the campaign closely monitors and honors for their efforts.
At least $40 million came in the last three months.
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The vast majority of the money — at least $119 million — has come from 237 people who have collected at least half a million dollars each. One-hundred-eighty-one people have raised between $200,000 and $500,000 each.
Republican nominee Mitt Romney has refused to disclose the names of his bundlers, but federally-mandated disclosures of registered lobbyists show he collected $9 million from Washington lobbyists last quarter.
The list released by the Obama campaign Friday includes 120 new names, including singer Gwen Stefani of the band No Doubt, who was one of 14 people who raised at least $500,000 in the last three months alone.
135 bundlers live in California, 90 live in New York, and 57 live in Mr. Obama’s home state. In the D.C. area, Baltimore financier Cal Baker raised $500,000 in the last three months.
Washington’s Hannibal Kemerer, whose professional bio says he works in “Public Policy and Lobbying” and “Congressional and Executive Agency Investigations” at Patton Boggs, a law and lobbying firm, also joined the list. Mr. Obama refuses contributions from federal lobbyists; Mr. Kemerer lobbied the Senate and White House on issues such as health care reform and “Advanced Battery Innovation” last year, but he has not filed paperwork as a registered lobbyist this year.
Here are the names of all of the new bundlers:
Ellen and Matthew Chesler and Mallow, New York, NY 500k+
Mikal Watts, San Antonio, TX 500k+
Sidney Felsen, Los Angeles, CA 500k+
Tom Ford, New York, NY 500k+
Stanley Grinstein, Los Angeles, CA 500k+
Tony James, New York, NY 500k+
Furkan Kosar, Little Falls, NJ 500k+
Mary Alice McLarty, Dallas, TX 500k+
Tom Meredith, Austin, TX 500k+
Barry and Wendy Meyer, Los Angeles, CA 500k+
Robert Meyerhoff, Phoenix, MD 500k+
Deborah Sagner, New York, NY 500k+
Gwen Stefani, Los Angeles, CA 500k+
Jill and John Levi, Chicago, IL 500k+
Cal Baker, Baltimore, MD 200k-500k
Elizabeth Alter “Jamie”” Lynton, Los Angeles, CA 200k-500k
Christina Lee Brown, Louisville, KY 200k-500k
Lorna Johnson, Los Angeles, CA 200k-500k
Carol and Andrew Golden, Princeton, NJ 200k-500k
Lisa and Don DeBartolo and Miggs, Tampa, FL 200k-500k
John and Kristi Cumming, Park City, UT 200k-500k
Michael Cryor, Baltimore, MD 200k-500k
Andrew Byrnes, Redwood City, CA 200k-500k
Madeleine Albright, Washington, DC 200k-500k
Samuel Berger, Washington, DC 200k-500k
Governor Dannel Malloy, Hartford, CT 200k-500k
Steve Kagen, Appleton, WI 200k-500k
Kenneth Berlin, Bethesda, MD 200k-500k
John Voorhes, Boulder, CO 200k-500k
Kristin Hull, Piedmont, CA 200k-500k
Sanjay Mody, Brooklyn, NY 200k-500k
Mary Fleming, Paris, France 200k-500k
Vicki and David Riskin and Rintels, Montecito, CA 200k-500k
Jesse Tyson, Miami, FL 200k-500k
Amy Sullivan, New York, NY 200k-500k
Cynthia Stroum, Seattle, WA 200k-500k
Thomas and Joyce Moorehead, McLean, VA 200k-500k
Bryan Rafanelli, Boston, MA 200k-500k
Susan Penzner, New York, NY 200k-500k
Virginia Rustique-Petteni, London, United Kingdom 200k-500k
Rose and Cleveland McElrath-Slade and Slade, Great Falls, VA 200k-500k
Pamela Boulet, Paris, France 200k-500k
Brenda and Mark Moore, Oak Hill, VA 200k-500k
Andrew Dayton Minneapolis MN 100k-200k
Frank DeRosa, San Francisco, CA 100k-200k
Wally Dietz Nashville TN 100k-200k
James Eaton, Tallahassee, FL 100k-200k
Curry Glassell, Houston, TX 100k-200k
Lacy Johnson, Indianapolis, IN 100k-200k
Eric Dayton, Minneapolis, MN 100k-200k
Pinney Allen, Atlanta, GA 100k-200k
Al Kramer, Washington, DC 100k-200k
Terrinee Gundy, Atlanta, GA 100k-200k
Ralph Dawson, New Rochelle, NY 100k-200k
Judy and Ron Davenport, Pittsburgh, PA 100k-200k
Charlie Crist, St. Petersburg, FL 100k-200k
Art Collins, Arlington, VA 100k-200k
Shelley Boots, Silver Spring, MD 100k-200k
Christian Archer, San Antonio, TX 100k-200k
Shoukat Ali, Los Angeles, CA 100k-200k
Kent Alexander, Atlanta ,GA 100k-200k
France and Richard Leclerc and Thaler, Chicago, IL 100k-200k
JoAnn Loulan Portola, Valley, CA 100k-200k
Hannah Banks, Newton, MA 100k-200k
Ann and Chris Stack, Indianapolis, IN 100k-200k
Nicole Leffer, Atlanta, GA 100k-200k
Dina Wampold, Mercer Island, WA 100k-200k
Juan Verde, Washington, DC 100k-200k
Dorothy Terrell, Boston, MA 100k-200k
Bob Stein, Berkeley, CA 100k-200k
David Blood, London, United Kingdom 100k-200k
Albert Shen, Seattle, WA 100k-200k
Steph Schlatter, Washington, DC 100k-200k
Steve Schiller, Piedmont, CA 100k-200k
Charles Thoms McMillen, Washington, DC 100k-200k
Mark Sandground, Washington, DC 100k-200k
Martine Rothblatt, Satellite Beach, FL 100k-200k
Erik Ramanathan, Wayland, MA 100k-200k
Jerome Pandell, Danville, CA 100k-200k
David Onek, San Francisco, CA 100k-200k
Janni Lehrer-Stein, San Francisco, CA 100k-200k
Grace Newton, Chicago, IL 100k-200k
Woodrow Myers, Indianapolis, IN 100k-200k
Aaron Schaler, Indianapolis, IN 100k-200k
Bob Tandler, San Francisco, CA 100k-200k
Peter Forbes, Waitsfield, VT 50k-100k
John Hammond, Plano, TX 50k-100k
Jarvis Houston, Chicago, IL 50k-100k
Celeste Hyde, Seattle, WA 50k-100k
Dena Isaac, Redmond, WA 50k-100k
Leondras Waymond Jackson, Birmingham, AL 50k-100k
Natalie Kelly, Birmingham, AL 50k-100k
Esta Epstein, Boston, MA 50k-100k
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