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Area Family Among VIP Obama Donors

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By BILLY HOUSE

bhouse@tampatrib.com

Published: December 22, 2008

A Tampa father and his two sons are among the biggest donors nationally to the four-day inaugural festivities for President-elect Barack Obama. Charles Brink and sons Christopher and Bryan have joined actors and moguls by each giving the maximum contribution allowed, $50,000. About 170 donors have contributed the maximum. The donation gives access to private lunches and dinners, inaugural balls, and perhaps even a dinner attended by the Obamas. A few of the notable $50,000 donors:

•Actress Sharon Stone

•Actress Halle Berry

•Actor Jamie Foxx

•Motown founder Berry Gordy

•Billionaire George Soros

•Hollywood couple Jamie Lee Curtis and Christopher Guest

•Actor Samuel L. Jackson

•Movie producer James Lassiter

•Producer Robert Zemeckis

•Lisa Henson, daughter of Muppets creator Jim Henson

•Qualcomm founder Irwin Jacobs

•Steven VanRoekel, director of the Windows Server Solutions at Microsoft

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