New York Islanders

Steven Gluckstern, a politically active investment banker and former owner of the New York Islanders has joined Barack Obama's national finance organization.

"People like me have to be looking well into six figures," Gluckstern just told me in a telephone interview. "There is no question in my mind there will be people who will emerge who will raise well over a million dollars, maybe I will be one of those people."

Gluckstern is best known in Democratic circles for having chaired the Democracy Alliance, a group formed in 2004 with the goal of funding progressive think tanks and advocacy groups. About 100 donors have joined the alliance, each having pledged to contribute a million dollars over a five-year period.  read more »