{"id":16147,"date":"2012-10-12T12:05:23","date_gmt":"2012-10-12T16:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=16147"},"modified":"2012-10-12T12:10:53","modified_gmt":"2012-10-12T16:10:53","slug":"obamaphone-provider-also-a-major-campaign-donor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/16147\/obamaphone-provider-also-a-major-campaign-donor\/","title":{"rendered":"Obamaphone Provider Also a Major Campaign Donor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myfoxdc.com\/story\/19792114\/carlos-slim-worlds-richest-man-gets-richer-supplying-obamaphones-to-poor \" target=\"_blank\">Fox affiliate in D.C.<\/a> reports that Carlos Slim, a Mexican telecom billionaire and\u00a0at $70 billion the world\u2019s richest man, is adding to his net worth by owning a controlling stake in a company that specializes in making $10 off of every \u201cObamaphone\u201d it distributes to eligible Americans.<\/p>\n<p>But although Slim himself is said to have donated to President Barack Obama\u2019s reelection campaign, it\u2019s the mogul\u2019s American-based surrogate, Frederick \u201cF.J.\u201d Pollack, who seems to be greasing the skids.\u00a0 Per Fox:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Pollak has donated at least $156,500 to Democratic candidates and committees this cycle, including at least $50,000 to the Obama campaign. His wife, Abigail, is a campaign bundler for Obama and has raised more than $632,000 for the president this cycle, and more than $1.5 million since 2007. She has personally contributed more than $200,000 to Democratic candidates and committees since 2008.<\/p>\n<p>The Pollaks hosted Obama at their Miami Beach home in June for a $40,000-per-plate fundraising dinner, and hosted a similar event with Michelle Obama in July 2008. The couple personally donated a combined $66,200 to Obama&#8217;s re-election effort that year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>With 3.8 million customers receiving Obamaphones at $10 a pop, the Pollacks are getting several times their money\u2019s worth for Slim in campaign donations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Fox affiliate in D.C. reports that Carlos Slim, a Mexican telecom billionaire and\u00a0at $70 billion the world\u2019s richest man, is adding to his net worth by owning a controlling stake in a company that specializes in making $10 off of every \u201cObamaphone\u201d it distributes to eligible Americans. But although Slim himself is said to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[143,1193,3179,3882,3881],"class_list":["post-16147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-barack-obama","tag-campaign","tag-crony","tag-donor","tag-obamaphone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16147"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16152,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16147\/revisions\/16152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}