Federal Employees Donate to Their New Boss
The Obama-Biden Transition Project has earned $1,170,937.44 since it began accepting donations on Nov. 15 and among the 1,776 people that have donated, 35 are federal employees or members of the military. They have donated $5,925 basically to help their next boss, Barack Obama, prepare for his new job. All appear to be rank-and-file types and at least three work for the State Department, three for the Social Security Administration and three for USDA. (You can review the full list after the jump.)
These people donated as private citizens, not in concert with their work as Federal employees, but the Eye thinks it is interesting to see who is, essentially, kissing up to the new boss by helping him and his staff get ready for Washington.
The Transition Project is responsible for performing agency-by-agency reviews, picking government appointees and includes staff in Chicago and Washington, D.C. It does not accept financial contributions from corporations, labor unions, and political actions committees and caps donations at $5,000. Registered federal lobbyists and registered foreign agents also cannot donate.
Here's the list of federal employees and their employers as listed on the Obama-Biden Transition donor list:
Federal Employees' Donations to Obama-Biden Transition
| Name | Employer | Hometown | Donation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eugene Aaron | State Department | Dulles, Va. | $500.00 |
| Nik Apostolides | National Gallery of Art | Washington, D.C. | $25.00 |
| Bill Brewner | US Gov't - Federal Aviation Administration | Larue, Texas | $250.00 |
| Ruby Burrell | Social Security Administration | Silver Spring, Md. | $250.00 |
| Khalaf Bushara | Veterans Affairs | Eden Prairie, Minn. | $25.00 |
| Piper Campbell | US Dept of State | Dulles, Va. | $50.00 |
| Mary Cogswell | Federal Government | Atlanta, Ga. | $250.00 |
| Kerry Connor | Federal Defenders | Munster, Ind. | $250.00 |
| Bill Brewner | US Gov't - Federal Aviation Administration | Larue, Texas | $250.00 |
| Alford Cooley | State Department | McLean, Va. | $200.00 |
| Katherine Dawes | US Federal Government | Washington, D.C. | $250.00 |
| David Devault | US Fish and Wildlife Service | Stillwater, Minn. | $100.00 |
| Bonita Edwards | Dept of Defense | Upper Marlboro, Md. | $25.00 |
| Irene Facha | US Dept of HUD | Maple Shade, N.J. | $250.00 |
| Herrick Fox | USDA forest service | Jackson, Wyo. | $50.00 |
| Andrew Gaeta | U.S. Navy | Fredericksburg, Va. | $100.00 |
| William Gardner | Postal Service | Springfield, Mo. | $200.00 |
| Eric Kirkendall | U.S. Department Of Agriculture | Olathe, Kan. | $500.00 |
| Walter Knausenberger | US Dept State | APO, AE | $100.00 |
| Kevin Lee | US Army | Hereford, Ariz. | $250.00 |
| Elizabeth Maloney | Centers For Disease Control | Atlanta, Ga. | $100.00 |
| Peggy Mastroianni | US Equal Employment Opportunity Comm | Washington, D.C. | $200.00 |
| B.J. McCoy | Federal Government | Little Rock, Ark. | $250.00 |
| Elizabeth Maloney | Centers For Disease Control | Atlanta, Ga. | $100.00 |
| Valerie Nicholson | USDA | Plano, Tex. | $100.00 |
| Vern Novstrup | Navy | Ventura, Calif. | $100.00 |
| Alan Oliver | USPS | Franklin Pk, Ill. | $100.00 |
| Derriziel Pierc | DoD | Anniston, Ala. | $250.00 |
| Alberto Rigau | Social Security Administration | Orlando, Fla. | $100.00 |
| Steve Silverman | US Government | Englewood, Colo. | $200.00 |
| Willie Sloan | Dept Of Vet Affairs | Spencer, N.C. | $50.00 |
| Tuwanda Smith | US Nuclear Regulatory Commission | Maryland, Md. | $250.00 |
| Sarah Spaulding | US Geological Survey | Boulder, Colo. | $200.00 |
| Maxine Stansell | U.S. Gov't: FTC | Seattle, Wash. | $25.00 |
| Josiah Starr | U.S. Coast Guard | Homer, La. | $150.00 |
| Anthony Thompson | Social Security Administration | Dallas, Texas | $25.00 |
| Irene Trowell-Harris | Department Of Veterans Affairs | Arlington, Va. | $250.00 |
SOURCE: Obama-Biden Transition Project -- Change.gov
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Ed O'Keefe
| December 1, 2008; 2:45 PM ET
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Posted by: silverspring25 | December 1, 2008 5:02 PM | Report abuse
I am a retired federal employee who donated for President-elect Barack Obama because I believe he was the best candidate and the one who can change my former federal employer from being a very dysfunctional agency full of cronysim, nepotism, favoritsm, mismanagement and corruption.
Posted by: doctormiguel | December 2, 2008 12:50 PM | Report abuse
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You have got to be kidding. I am a Fed- but did not donate to the transition(yet). I did donate to the campaign(I was with Barack from the beginning -and yet he still has called me) but I am sure my contributions will not make any difference to my job. If you are a GS-the president and his team will never have any idea who you are and giving money in these amounts won't help you. Some of these people probably gave the money to get the nice T-shirt($30 got you one). I am sure they are supporting the transition because we are all in a hurry to have an intelligent, decent man as our President and as our boss.