Including Hollywood stars Halle Berry and Steven Spielberg and heads of high-tech giants like Google and Microsoft are opening their wallets to help finance Barack Obama part of the inauguration.
Obama, according to its vote in the political purge of U.S. influence, ordered that the names of all donors inauguration, held by previous presidents, will be published on the Internet.
Lists of stumping for the inauguration on January 20 show that Spielberg and his wife, Kate, each gave the maximum donation of $ 50,000.
Actress Halle Berry, as working for Bumpers Inc. production company, also gave $ 50,000, as comedian and actor Jamie Foxx.
A Sharon Stone, California is also on the list with a donation of 50,000.
Obama inauguration of the Fund is also attracting contributions from major U. S. Internet titans and the software industry.
Google CEO Eric Schmidt, who served in the campaign Obama Economic Advisory Council, gave $ 25,000, and Google co-founder Larry Page and Google Vice President Marissa Mayer.
Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft gave $ 50,000, and his wife, Connie.
The former star basketball and businessman Earvin "Magic" Johnson also gave $ 25,000 and five family members of the financier and billionaire philanthropist George Soros earned 250,000 U.S. dollars between them.
The fund is required to pay for the long list of dances and other commemorative events surrounding the inauguration day. Big Money Donors can expect special privileges and access to VIP ticket events.
The list of fund-raising is detailed in the Presidential Inaugural Committee's Web site pic2009.org/donors.
Obama Commission, in contrast with previous inaugural committees, said not to accept contributions from businesses, political action committees, unions, pressure groups or non-citizens.
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