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Melvin Sembler
$127,600 to the GOP*
Note: Sembler announced his resignation from this post in early 2005. In
his place Bush nominated California investment banker Ronald P.
Spogli.
It seems that President Bush was determined to find a place for Mel
Sembler in his administration. Bush initially picked him to head the
Export-Import Bank, but Sembler withdrew his nomination when it was
discovered that his company did business with banks that received loans
from the agency.
Bush then nominated Sembler, the former finance chairman of the
Republican National Committee and ambassador to Australia under Bush's
father, as ambassador to Italy.
Sembler contributed $11,350 to Republican candidates and party
committees during the 1999-2000 election cycle, including $1,000 to
George W. Bush's campaign account. He also wrote a $5,000 check to the
Bush-Cheney recount fund, and his company, the Florida-based Sembler
Co., contributed $100,000 to the Bush-Cheney Inaugural Committee. (Both
contributions have been included in Sembler's contribution totals.)
Sembler's wife, Betty, contributed $11,250 to GOP candidates and party
committees during the presidential election cycle, including $1,000
directly to the Bush campaign. Together, the Semblers contributed a
total of $127,600 to the GOP and nothing to Democrats.
*Figures represent contributions from the individual and his/her
immediate family in 1999-2000. Total includes donations made to
Republican candidates and party committees, as well as the Bush-Cheney
recount fund, transition foundation, and inauguration committee.
Feel free to distribute or cite this material, but please credit the
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$802,807 to the GOP*
Although Ronald P. Spogli, President Bush's newly nominated ambassador
to Italy, studied in the country during college and later led a research
project there on labor migration, it seems unlikely that those
experiences served as the main reason for his June 2005 appointment.
Spogli, a Los Angeles-based investment banker, also happens to be one of
the president's most prolific donors. A classmate of the president at
Harvard Business School, Spogli made his fortune in investment banking,
founding the firm Freeman Spogli & Co. with fellow Bush fundraiser Brad
Freeman. President Bush had previously appointed Spogli to the board of
the U.S. State Department's Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board.
Spogli and his wife, Georgia, made a whopping $802,807 in contributions
to Republican candidates and party committees during the 2000, 2002 and
2004 election cycles. That figure includes $10,000 in donations to the
Bush campaigns, $100,000 to Bush's first inaugural committee and $5,000
to the Bush-Cheney recount fund established after the 2000 election.
Spogli was listed as a Pioneer in 2000 and 2004, meaning that he bundled
more than $100,000 in contributions for both of Bush's presidential
campaigns.
The posting in Rome had previously been held by major Republican
contributor Melvin Sembler.
*Figures represent contributions from the individual and his/her
immediate family from 1999-2004. Total includes donations made to
Republican candidates and party committees, as well as the Bush-Cheney
recount fund formed after the 2000 election and Bush's two inaugural
committees.
Feel free to distribute or cite this material, but please credit the
Center for Responsive Politics.