farmgirlinwv Posted October 6, 2008 Share Posted October 6, 2008 Special thanks to the Center for Responsive Politics for existing, and to Matt Collins for doing the research on it. Top 10 Corporate PAC Contributors: Obama: Goldman Sachs $739,521 UBS AG $419,550 Lehman Brothers$391,774 Citigroup Inc $492,548 Morgan Stanley $341,380 Latham & Watkins $328,879 Google Inc $487,355 JPMorgan Chase & Co $475,112 Sidley Austin LLP $370,916 Skadden, Arps et al $360,409 McCain: Merrill Lynch $349,170 Citigroup Inc $287,801 Morgan Stanley $249,377 Wachovia Corp $147,456 Goldman Sachs $220,045 Lehman Brothers $115,707 Bear Stearns $108,000 JPMorgan Chase & Co $206,392 Bank of America $133,975 Credit Suisse Group $175,503 This just sickens me. I may vote Libertarian. I just don't know. Why doesn't the American public care?:confused: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
farmgirlinwv Posted October 6, 2008 Author Share Posted October 6, 2008 Sorry about the typo...I really can spell. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cathmom Posted October 6, 2008 Share Posted October 6, 2008 How do these companies have money to contribute?? I thought they were going bankrupt and needed to be bailed out! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hsmamainva Posted October 6, 2008 Share Posted October 6, 2008 How do these companies have money to contribute?? I thought they were going bankrupt and needed to be bailed out! Same here!!!! Burns my buns!!! :mad: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pam "SFSOM" in TN Posted October 6, 2008 Share Posted October 6, 2008 Special thanks to the Center for Responsive Politics for existing, and to Matt Collins for doing the research on it. Top 10 Corporate PAC Contributors: Obama: Goldman Sachs $739,521 UBS AG $419,550 Lehman Brothers$391,774 Citigroup Inc $492,548 Morgan Stanley $341,380 Latham & Watkins $328,879 Google Inc $487,355 JPMorgan Chase & Co $475,112 Sidley Austin LLP $370,916 Skadden, Arps et al $360,409 McCain: Merrill Lynch $349,170 Citigroup Inc $287,801 Morgan Stanley $249,377 Wachovia Corp $147,456 Goldman Sachs $220,045 Lehman Brothers $115,707 Bear Stearns $108,000 JPMorgan Chase & Co $206,392 Bank of America $133,975 Credit Suisse Group $175,503 This just sickens me. I may vote Libertarian. I just don't know. Why doesn't the American public care?:confused: This isn't accurate, according to the site you linked. I didn't look at Sen. McCain, but according to here on the site, Sen. Obama has a total of $450 in PAC money. The money that you report above (who is Matt Collins?) comes from that page and represents "its individual members or employees or owners, and those individuals' immediate families" according to the page who are limited to, what, $2300 apiece?, who have reported their place of employment or affiliation as THAT ENTITY. (In the case of Google, for example, they work for Google or a family member does.) You can read how they ask for and report info here. (I know that the part I quoted above also says "its PAC's," but the fact is that for *this campaign* for President, Sen. Obama will not take PAC money. I imagine the $450 is still sitting there to be returned, as some monies have been returned according to the oversight website that you linked. For example again, his second highest "donor" is Harvard University, but that doesn't mean that Harvard is supporting him. It's just that people affiliated with Harvard put that affiliation in their disclosure information, and OpenSecrets reported the affiliation in aggregate. Ok, I looked at Sen. McCain, and it shows he has approx $1.3M in PAC money. So you see, less than the approx $2M you list above. Who compiled the info you put up above? They misrepresented the facts, unfortunately. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
farmgirlinwv Posted October 6, 2008 Author Share Posted October 6, 2008 Thank you Pam...I'll look into it. I know they all received copious amounts of money from Freddie/Fannie. I'll look into it some more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pam "SFSOM" in TN Posted October 6, 2008 Share Posted October 6, 2008 Thank you Pam...I'll look into it. I know they all received copious amounts of money from Freddie/Fannie. I'll look into it some more. Remember though, as you research, that of $126,000 that Sen. Obama received, $120,000 was from *individuals* who either worked for or were affiliated with Fannie/Freddie. $6000 was PAC, but not for this campaign. The cap for individuals is, IIRC, $2300. And when someone is running for prez, one's contributions will be higher than when one is a sitting senator/rep. One wonders if Chris Dodd and John Boehner were running for something though, huh? Sheesh. And most of Boehner's and a good chunk of Dodd's *is* PAC money. John McCain's receipts were not on the OpenSecrets site, but you can see them here. If this list is right, then McCain got $169,900 + 21,550 = $191,450 ( $21,550 from individual donors, $169,900 PAC (from the company)) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kokotg Posted October 6, 2008 Share Posted October 6, 2008 . I may vote Libertarian. I just don't know. Why doesn't the American public care?:confused: According to the Opensecrets site, Bob Barr actually has more PAC money than Obama and a poorer record of disclosure about where his funds come from than either major party candidate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pam "SFSOM" in TN Posted October 6, 2008 Share Posted October 6, 2008 According to the Opensecrets site, Bob Barr actually has more PAC money than Obama and a poorer record of disclosure about where his funds come from than either major party candidate. Really. ?? Huh. I guess I'll have to look at that. Dh is all het up to vote for him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kokotg Posted October 6, 2008 Share Posted October 6, 2008 Former Rep. Bob Barr, once a Republican, announced that he's running for president on the Libertarian ticket, blasting the two major parties for not implementing more fiscal restraint. Barr, who helped successfully push through Bill Clinton's impeachment and who lost his Georgia House seat to redistricting in 2002, has maintained his leadership political action committee since then. He has raised $4.5 million through his PAC since the 2004 election cycle yet has given only 2 percent of that to other politicians -- a sign he was thinking about running for president. It's not a huge amount...actually, I'm not clear on where most of the 4.5 million is supposed to have gone, since it only shows a bit over $8,000 from PAC contributions (1% of total funds). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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