Saturday, August 9, 2008

Wall Street Lays Down Its Presidential Bets

Heidi N. Moore at WSJ reports:

The presidential campaigns of Barack Obama and John McCain just released their lists of campaign “bundlers,” or fundraisers who have raised at least $500,000 for the campaigns. The lists are full of Wall Street types.

So whose bundlers are a bigger deal?

Advantage, McCain.

The Arizona Senator has 15 heavy hitters who list their profession as investing, banking, or hedge funds.

Obama, meanwhile, has only seven Wall Street types...

Robert Wolf, chairman of UBS Americas and president of UBS Investment Bank...William Kennard, Carlyle Group...Julius Genachowski, co-founder of Rock Creek Ventures...James Torrey, CEO of The Torrey Funds; Paula and Jim Crown of Henry Crown & Co.; Steve Westly, founder of Westly Group; William Eacho, investor with Carlton Capital Group.

McCain’s Heavy Hitters

John Thain, CEO, Merrill Lynch...Henry Kravis, Investor, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts...Fred Malek, founder of Thayer Capital Partners...James B. Lee, vice chairman, J.P. Morgan...John Donahue, owner of Federated Investors...William Strong, Morgan Stanley banker...Patrick Durkin, managing director of J. Fitzgibbons... Robert Woody Johnson IV, chairman of the Johnson Company; James Barksdale, owner of Barksdale Management...Lewis Eisenberg, former co-head of equities for Goldman Sachs and founder of Granite Capital International Partners.

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