{"id":3584,"date":"2008-12-29T09:19:02","date_gmt":"2008-12-29T17:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=3584"},"modified":"2008-12-29T14:59:12","modified_gmt":"2008-12-29T22:59:12","slug":"jake-gives-up-50000-for-obama-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=3584","title":{"rendered":"Jake Gives Up $50,000 For Obama Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/jake-b.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/jake-b.jpg','popup','width=681,height=270,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/jake-b-tm.jpg\" height=\"170\" width=\"430\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Jake B\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s been seen sporting 1.20.09 stickers for awhile now so it should be no surprise that <strong>Jake Burton Carpenter<\/strong> has anted up a $50,000 donation (the maximum allowable) to help <strong>Barack Obama<\/strong> kick off his presidency in style, according to a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.answers.com\/Q\/What_is_the_Date_of_the_Presidential_Inauguration\" target=\"_blank\">Times Argus<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Five residents have given more than $150,000 in recent weeks to the Democrat&#8217;s Presidential Inauguration Committee, the body that oversees the ceremonies and celebrations surrounding the Jan. 20, swearing-in process. . . . Jake Carpenter of Stowe, the owner of Burton Snowboards, gave $50,000 to support the inauguration as did Bill Stetson of Norwich, a prominent Democratic fundraiser.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Talk about giving back. . . <strong>Google<\/strong> CEO <strong>Eric Schmidt<\/strong> and cofounder <strong>Larry Page<\/strong> <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/valleywag.gawker.com\/5119039\/google-execs-pay-150000-for-obama-bash\" target=\"_blank\">only donated $25,000<\/a><\/strong> a piece.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesargus.com\/article\/20081229\/NEWS01\/812290360\/1002\/NEWS01\" target=\"_blank\">Times Argus<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He&#8217;s been seen sporting 1.20.09 stickers for awhile now so it should be no surprise that Jake Burton Carpenter has anted up a $50,000 donation (the maximum allowable) to help Barack Obama kick off his presidency in style, according to a story in the Times Argus. Five residents have given more than $150,000 in recent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3584"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3584"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3598,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3584\/revisions\/3598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}