(Reuters) – More than 400 donors, including AT&T Inc and Microsoft, have contributed money to help pay for the festivities to mark President Barack Obama’s inauguration to a second term, organizers said on Friday.
The committee of Obama supporters organizing the parade and other gala events did not say how much money has been raised so far, disclosing only the list of “benefactors,” most of whom are individuals.
In 2009, the presidential inauguration committee raised a record $53 million for his first inauguration, refusing corporate donations and capping the maximum donation at $50,000.
This year, the committee is accepting funding from corporations and has encouraged gifts of $250,000 from individuals.
Aside from AT&T and Microsoft, other corporate donors listed were pharmaceutical company Genentech, which is part of Swiss drugmaker Roche Holding AG,, health insurer Centene Corp, and West Coast wealth manager Whittier Trust Co.
Obama will be publicly sworn in for his second term on January 21. The inauguration is expected to be much smaller than Obama’s first, which attracted a record 1.8 million visitors. Organizers have planned only two official balls, down from 10 in 2009.
(Reporting by Roberta Rampton; editing by Philip Barbara)
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I know. That is why I didn’t post it. I’m sorry, but even if it’s something good, I can’t be responsible on my sites for causing someone to lust. I aim to please God as much as I can, and I don’t like to do anything (as I probably already do enough from time to time) to make Him upset with me. That video would not have been appropriate for any of my websites. It was smut. I understand your intentions were good though.
I have been apprehensive of the antiChrist for about a year. MSM, TV, Internet, and church leaders are too afraid to discuss this issue. This man could be a candidate–not Omamba bin Snake.
There are so many ways to go with this that I feel like the preverbial “kid in a candy store”… I mean the mere discussion of the President’s “Inaugural arrogance” is surely overshadowed by the presence of the latest Congressional arrogance of having confirmed the Electoral College’s vote from this past election… not to mention the deliberate arrogance that U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein has planned and hanging in the wings given her premeditated attack on our Constitutional Liberties as guaranteed by its Bill of Rights. The 2nd Amendment is only the most important of the 10, and therein rests the necessity for it to be the first to fall in order to pave the way for the remaining.
LOL!!! Thank you my dear!
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