Posted on 02/16/2012 9:12:50 AM PST by SmithL
San Francisco philanthropist Susie Tompkins Buell, one of the Democratic Party's most generous benefactors, is keeping her checkbook closed when President Obama holds high-priced California fundraisers this week.
"I want to look him in the eye and say, 'Thank you so much' " for his work, said Buell, who expresses deep disappointment in the president's leadership on environmental issues, especially climate change.
With Obama's 2012 re-election campaign in full swing, "I would just love to write my big check ... or have a high-dollar dinner here" on his behalf, she said. "I can't."
Buell, a co-founder of the Esprit clothing company, has donated millions of dollars to Democratic causes and presidential candidates, including Bill Clinton, John Kerry, Al Gore and her good friend, Hillary Rodham Clinton. In the past 10 years, she has given $25 million to progressive political and charitable causes and has raised $10 million for candidates and committees, her office said.
But as Obama flies from Southern California to San Francisco today to vacuum up donations in the reliable Democratic ATM, Buell will attend neither of his $35,800-per-plate fundraisers in San Francisco, nor a fundraising rally at the Masonic Auditorium.
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Buell and her husband, Mark Buell, have long devoted energy and money to environmental causes such as the Go Green Foundation, a San Francisco nonprofit designed to get young people involved in environmental causes. She said she is "very concerned that President Obama has not talked enough about this issue."
"I thought that he really did understand 'the urgency of now' on climate change," she said. "He has not been vocal enough ... and I want to encourage him to lead me."
Buell's glaring absence from Obama's fundraising events this week underscores the challenges the president has with his progressive base.
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She’ll come around, once there’s a real-life GOP challenger.
Of course!
Obama won’t care. To him she’s just a typical white person.
I knew the funny money going to Green could be traced back to San Francisco.
I suspect she’s got indirect connections to Tesla, Solarindra and most of the other Green projects in CA.
This was all about buying her donations.
Pass the word!
A professor “friend” told me he can’t understand how B0 can be considered a socialist or Marxist, because hard-core lefties (like him) do not believe that B0 is radical enough.
Of course, Mr. Professor does not consider himself socialist/Marxist/Leninist/Maoist/fascist. He is merely “progressive.”
It is called "money laundering"...and for non-RATS is against the law.
Buell, a co-founder of the Esprit clothing company,
That’s what I say too. If I did care about labels, which I don’t, I would stay clear of her green clothing line. But, I friends that do, so I will share the little tidbit with them.
Esprit
There is no e on the end.
There is no reason why we conservatives should be indirectly funding the very creeps who want to destroy us!
So turning down the Keystone pipeline wasn’t quite enough.
I thought that decision was supposed to appease people just like her.
There is no reason why we conservatives should be indirectly funding the very creeps who want to destroy us!
Absolutely. Those rich, smug, arrogant progressive/liberal/marxist/communist/elitists shouldn’t get one dollar from the hard earned cash we have left. We also need a list of conservative industries we can purchase from and do business with. That would be great. I wouldn’t even mind paying more if I knew my money wasn’t going to liberals and their causes. Yep, hit’em where it always hurts - the bank account. No matter how much of a bleeding heart liberal they are they won’t be put in a financial position to have to buy cheaper champagne. Oh, I NEVER, NEVER eat Ben & Jerry’s ice cream. They could tell me that it actually helps you loose weight and I wouldn’t have it touch my mouth!
He’ll find a way to tax it out of her.
if Newt is our nominee she will be writing Barry checks faster than the producers of the Super Terrific Happy Hour wrote them for Jerry Seinfeld.
Nice to have more B5 friends! My favorite sci-fi.
After living in the Bay Area for 15 years, you get used to the political kickbacks. What stumped me was how a city filled with semiconductor engineers couldn’t figure out that building a solar panel plant (ie price sensitive) product on the most expensive real estate on the west coast made any sense.
All I could figure is someone very high in the DNC REALLY, REALLY believed that solar could change California.
This wench seems to be one of the key players.
[ Buell, a co-founder of the Esprit clothing company]
Another brand name to never buy again.
My opinion is that this whole "green" thing is a money-laundering scheme. Chicago Corruption gone national!
She's just too demanding and even with her money, she just one woman.
I'd be curious to know what specifically would sway her to open up the checkbook again.
Something tells me that despite supporting all sorts of green initiatives, she doesn’t drive a Volt, Prius or other green car. Chances are it is hybrid Lexus SUV, from the liberals I know.
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