By ROBERT BURNS
Associated Press
June 26, 2009
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama on Thursday selected for ambassadorships in Europe two of his presidential campaign's biggest fundraisers, extending a pattern of rewarding political supporters.
Obama chose career foreign service officers to head U.S. embassies in Latvia, Benin and Zimbabwe.
Obama said he will nominate William Eacho, chief executive officer of Carlton Capital Group, a private investment company, to be ambassador to Austria. Eacho raised more than $500,000 for Obama's presidential run; he and his immediate family also donated $226,000 to federal politics in 2007-08, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, a nonpartisan group that tracks money in politics.
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