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Fundraisers tapped to fill advisory role in transition.(PAGE ONE)

Article from: The Washington Times Article date: November 06, 2008

Byline: Jim McElhatton, THE WASHINGTON TIMES

President-elect Barack Obama has tapped some of the same big-time fundraisers who helped him collect more than a half-billion dollars for his presidential campaign to be on a new panel that will help shape the face of his administration.

Donald Gips, a former top aide to Vice President Al Gore who helped the Obama campaign raise at least $500,000, will serve on an advisory board overseeing the Obama transition, aides said Wednesday. He'll be joined by Michael Froman, a Citigroup executive who raised at least $200,000 for the ...

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Close Allies Will Run Obama Transition

Posted Nov 5, 08 3:16 PM CST in Politics 

Close Allies Will Run Obama Transition
Source: AP Photo

(Newser) – Barack Obama took his first steps toward the White House this morning, announcing the three-person team of confidants that will run his transition activities: John Podesta, a former Clinton chief of staff; Valerie Jarrett, a top campaign adviser; and Pete Rouse, Obama's senatorial chief of staff. The president-elect also named the advisory and staff members of the interim team, reports the Chicago Tribune.

Source: Chicago Tribune

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(Newser) - Barack Obama's transition team has set out what one official called "the strictest, most far-reaching ethics rules of any transition in history,” the Hill reports. Lobbyists, corporations and PACs will be barred from donating funds to the transition operation, and lobbyists on the team won’t be allowed to work on the same issues they once lobbied. Transition staffers who become lobbyists will be banned from lobbying the administration for a year. More »

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