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Title: “Green” stimulus beneficiary hosts Tuesday $25,000-a-plate fundraiser for Obama Post by: Coach Hank Crisp on October 05, 2011, 11:13:08 AM Quote http://dailycaller.com/2011/10/05/green-stimulus-beneficiary-hosts-tuesday-25000-per-plate-fundraiser-for-obama/ On a brief campaign jaunt to St. Louis, President Obama appeared Tuesday night at a $25,000-per-plate fundraising event hosted by an influential Democrat whose green energy firm benefited from a $107 million federal tax credit under the president’s economic stimulus plan. Tom Carnahan’s company, Wind Development Group received the money to develop wind power in Missouri. Carnahan is a member of the influential Missouri political family that includes Rep. Russ Carnahan and Missouri’s Secretary of State Robin Carnahan. Inside the fundraiser, about 45 well-heeled Obama supporters gathered to listen to the president speak in front of a grand fireplace, Business Insider reports. “I know you guys have a little pull with at least one congressman named Carnahan,” the President reportedly told his host. |