The Indian-American community, having the highest per capita income among the ethnic communities in the US, appears to have opened up its wallet for the Obama Campaign, but its contribution is far less than that of 2008.
The Mitt Romney campaign, which last week at Republican National Convention wooed the community by inviting a record number of Indian-Americans to address the event, does not appear to have been successful in getting a pie into the Indian-American money bag, the list of major Romney donors available from open source documents indicate.
Florida-based Dr Akshay Desai appears to be the only Indian-American to have raised more than USD 1 million for the Romney campaign, which unlike the Obama Campaign, has remained very secretive in revealing the list of its major donors.
Desai has been named as Romney's ‘stars and stripes’ the small group of top fund raiser for the campaign.
He is also the only Indian-American serving on the Romney national finance team. In fact, he was also a Romney bundler (major fund raiser) in his previous presidential bid in 2008.
The Mitt Romney campaign, which last week at Republican National Convention wooed the community by inviting a record number of Indian-Americans to address the event, does not appear to have been successful in getting a pie into the Indian-American money bag, the list of major Romney donors available from open source documents indicate.
Florida-based Dr Akshay Desai appears to be the only Indian-American to have raised more than USD 1 million for the Romney campaign, which unlike the Obama Campaign, has remained very secretive in revealing the list of its major donors.
Desai has been named as Romney's ‘stars and stripes’ the small group of top fund raiser for the campaign.
He is also the only Indian-American serving on the Romney national finance team. In fact, he was also a Romney bundler (major fund raiser) in his previous presidential bid in 2008.