Meet the new super donors
Via Campaigns & Elections
Larry O’Brien had a formal response drawn up for when the fundraisers came calling.
First, it was a fax, then it was an email, but it always said the same thing: No. See, O’Brien is a major donor that plays in the higher echelons of Democratic politics — major enough to donate tens of thousands of dollars to candidates each campaign season. Major enough that he couldn’t give one cent more under the law.
“We used to have a standard fax, which we turned into an email, that would go out in response to solicitations that said something like Mr. O’Brien has hit his maximum or something like that,” says O’Brien, founder of the OB-C Group, a high-profile lobby firm. “The cap did have a real world consequence. Once you hit it, you hit it.”
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