Celebrities open wallets for Obama
President Barack Obamas latest fundraising report resembles an A-list of Hollywood stars, with donations from some of the top celebrities in the entertainment industry.
Among the more than 550,000 donors to the presidents 2012 reelection bid were big-name movie stars including actors George Clooney, Michael Douglas, Sharon Stone, Michael Keaton, Tom Hanks and his wife Rita Wilson. Filmmaker Steven Spielberg and his wife, actress Kate Capshaw, also gave to the 2012 campaign, according to the latest Federal Election Commission report. Jennifer Garner and Gwyneth Paltrow both contributed under their married names Affleck and Martin, respectively.
Continue Reading30 Rock actor Alec Baldwin, who has often toyed with a potential political run, also shelled out cash for Obamas second-quarter fundraising haul. And several other TV actors such as Monks Tony Shalhoub, Glees Jane Lynch, 24s president Dennis Haysbert and sci-fi stars Scott Bakula and Richard Dean Anderson joined Baldwin in contributing to the presidents reelection bid.
Comedians Will Ferrell, Carl Reiner and The Simpsonss Yeardley Smith also doled out money for Obama, whose campaign attracted a record-breaking $86 million in donations.
According to the July quarterly report, the presidents reelection campaign raised $47 million, while the Democratic National Committee raised $38 million through Obamas joint committee.
About 40 percent of the presidents record-breaking take came from big-money bundlers, according to a POLITICO analysis of donors listed on Obamas campaign web site. Among those bundlers were top Hollywood insiders Andy Spahn, Ari Emanuel and Jeffrey Katzenberg.
Spahn an entertainment consultant who was appointed in 2008 to the Presidents Commission on Arts and Humanities brought in over $500,000 in the last quarter. Katzenberg, a Hollywood mogul and DreamWorks Animation CEO, also appears in the group of blunders whove raised over $500,000.
Emanuel, who served as the inspiration for Entourages movie agent Ari Gold, raised between $50,000-$100,000 for his brother Rahms former boss.
Obamas campaign also pulled in a number of other actors and familiar faces, such as Vanessa Williams, Anthony Edwards of ER, Star Treks John Cho, Houses Jennifer Morrison, Cougar Towns Christa Miller, Brenda Strong of Desperate Housewives and Wayne Wilderson, the actor who portrays the grapes in Fruit of the Loom commercials.
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