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Snap: For $1 million, Obama donors get to skip Biden meetings

March 4, 2013 | 12:24 pm | Modified: March 4, 2013 at 12:30 pm
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Karl Rove's American Crossroads isn't letting that New York Times story about President Obama's grassroots group Organizing for Action selling access to the White House for $500,000 donations go away.

On Monday, the American Crossroads posted a video slamming the Team Obama tactic to raise money to boost its lobbying and elect Democrats in 2014.

The video from American Crossroads, arguably the GOP peer of Obama's OFA, is titled "Organizing for Acce$$," and directed like a Ronco ad. For example, the ad--like OFA--offers quarterly meetings with the president's team for a $500,000 donation. Then it cheers, "Or pay $1 million and you don't have to meet with Biden--ever!"

It also shows Fox's Ed Henry at a recent press briefing pressing spokesman Jay Carney for information about the OFA's $500,000 for access, prompting Carney to walk off stage.

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