Thread by @revolvingdoorDC

At around 11:00 last night, the @JoeBiden campaign released its list of bundlers...not the move you make when you want people to actually read who is fundraising for you. Luckily, RDP is on the case! We’ll be tweeting any names that pop out to us...
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.@MaggieSeverns noted ex-DreamWorks chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg in her story on Biden’s bundlers. Katzenberg was a crucial Obama bundler, and that likely helped when he opened DreamWorks studios in China after a dinner with Biden and Xi Jinping...
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Revolving Door-watchers should worry about Erskine Bowles, Bill Clinton’s WH Chief of Staff who’s now on Facebook and Morgan Stanley’s boards. He worked to focus the gov’t on spending cuts when unemployment was near 8 percent!

Bowles now runs an Aspen program with Hank Paulson that’s full of Wall Street and private equity execs. He took to @nytopinion recently to display the project’s real thesis: telling progressives that they’re never allowed to change economic policy.
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.@JoeBiden is also leaning on Alan Patricof for fundraising. Patricof is one of the pioneers of the private equity industry, aka financial strip-mining!

@JoeBiden It’s no surprise that Mark Angelson backs @JoeBiden, since he’s worked with Biden’s campaigns for 30+ years. He’s an M&A prof who brags in his Biden Foundation bio that he was “a leader of the transformation and consolidation of the printing industry.”
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@JoeBiden Interesting: Joseph Asher, the CEO of @WilliamHillUS — the country’s largest sports betting organization — is bundling for Biden.

@JoeBiden @WilliamHillUS Amy Baker, an @JoeBiden bundler, is a 20-year veteran of NBC’s news and entertainment divisions. But her husband Barry is a senior advisor at Lee Equity Partners, a private equity firm.

@JoeBiden @WilliamHillUS .@JoeBiden and @PeteButtigieg have a rivalry for the hearts — and pocketbooks — of a prominent Virginia family. Congressman Don Beyer is bundling for Buttigieg, but his wife Megan Beyer is bundling for Biden. Is this big money fundraising family hedging its bets?

@JoeBiden @WilliamHillUS @PeteButtigieg .@SenFeinstein and her husband, investment banker Richard Blum, are both big money bundlers for @JoeBiden. Meanwhile, poll averages in California find Biden neck-and-neck with @BernieSanders

@JoeBiden @WilliamHillUS @PeteButtigieg @SenFeinstein @BernieSanders Wow. Bradley Butwin, the chair of BigLaw firm O’Melveny & Myers, bundles for Joe Biden.

O’Melveny & Myers defended @realDonaldTrump in a lawsuit over Trump University, and his inaugural committee in an SDNY investigation, and @SecretaryRoss for conflicts of interest!

@JoeBiden @WilliamHillUS @PeteButtigieg @SenFeinstein @BernieSanders @realDonaldTrump @SecretaryRoss Comcast’s top lobbyist David Cohen is a @JoeBiden bundler. Little surprise, since Biden held a fundraiser at Cohen’s house the day after he announced he was running for president.

@JoeBiden @WilliamHillUS @PeteButtigieg @SenFeinstein @BernieSanders @realDonaldTrump @SecretaryRoss The mayor of Detroit @MayorMikeDuggan endorsed Biden in July, and is now listed as a campaign bundler.

Cc @freep @detroitnews @wdet

@JoeBiden @WilliamHillUS @PeteButtigieg @SenFeinstein @BernieSanders @realDonaldTrump @SecretaryRoss @MayorMikeDuggan @freep @detroitnews @wdet As @EricLevitz reported in April, Biden got early support from Stephen Cozen, founder of union-busting BigLaw firm Cozen O’Connor. We now know that Stephen Cozen is a Biden bundler.
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@JoeBiden @WilliamHillUS @PeteButtigieg @SenFeinstein @BernieSanders @realDonaldTrump @SecretaryRoss @MayorMikeDuggan @freep @detroitnews @wdet @EricLevitz One of @JoeBiden’s bundlers is Joseph Falk of Akerman LLP, who does lobbying and “government affairs” for mortgage brokers.

Biden might have promised “from day one” to reject lobbyist campaign contributions, but he’s apparently fine with lobbyists fundraising for him.

@JoeBiden @WilliamHillUS @PeteButtigieg @SenFeinstein @BernieSanders @realDonaldTrump @SecretaryRoss @MayorMikeDuggan @freep @detroitnews @wdet @EricLevitz Silicon Valley insider Jon Fisher is a @JoeBiden bundler too. Fisher is a major advocate for building start-ups with the goal of being bought by a bigger firm instead of trying to actually create a standalone company. Curse of Bigness anyone?

Cc @teddyschleifer

@JoeBiden @WilliamHillUS @PeteButtigieg @SenFeinstein @BernieSanders @realDonaldTrump @SecretaryRoss @MayorMikeDuggan @freep @detroitnews @wdet @EricLevitz @teddyschleifer Biden has another Hollywood mogul bundling for him: Jim Gianopulos, CEO of Paramount. Note that Paramount’s parent company Viacom recently announced a merger with CBS, with Gianopulos confirmed to run the film division. Raising cash for POTUS could help with that merger review...

@JoeBiden @WilliamHillUS @PeteButtigieg @SenFeinstein @BernieSanders @realDonaldTrump @SecretaryRoss @MayorMikeDuggan @freep @detroitnews @wdet @EricLevitz @teddyschleifer That Mark Gitenstein, a former Biden aide, is fundraising for him is unsurprising.

But it is notable, since Gitenstein was embarrassingly rejected for an assistant AG job after @Public_Citizen pointed out his legal work for the Chamber of Commerce.
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@JoeBiden @WilliamHillUS @PeteButtigieg @SenFeinstein @BernieSanders @realDonaldTrump @SecretaryRoss @MayorMikeDuggan @freep @detroitnews @wdet @EricLevitz @teddyschleifer @Public_Citizen FOSSIL FUEL $$$ ALERT: @JoeBiden bundler Michael Collier has worked in oil financing for decades. In October, he wrote a piece defending Big Oil’s piecemeal reforms while framing the need for clean energy as a question of investment incentives.
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@JoeBiden @WilliamHillUS @PeteButtigieg @SenFeinstein @BernieSanders @realDonaldTrump @SecretaryRoss @MayorMikeDuggan @freep @detroitnews @wdet @EricLevitz @teddyschleifer @Public_Citizen Paul Weiss is an iconic corporate BigLaw firm.

Their chairman, Brad Karp, is a @JoeBiden bundler.

The @nytimes once called him “the most connected lawyer in the country.”