donderdag 23 april 2015

Democracy For Sale

CAREER PROFILE (SINCE 1989)

Top Contributors

Senator Hillary Clinton


Campaign Finance Cycle: 
Contributor
Total
Indivs
PACs
Citigroup Inc $782,327$774,327$8,000
Goldman Sachs $711,490$701,490$10,000
DLA Piper $628,030$601,030$27,000
JPMorgan Chase & Co $620,919$617,919$3,000
EMILY's List $605,174$601,254$3,920
Morgan Stanley $543,065$538,065$5,000
Time Warner $411,296$386,296$25,000
Skadden, Arps et al $406,640$402,140$4,500
Lehman Brothers $362,853$359,853$3,000
Cablevision Systems $336,288$306,900$29,388
University of California $329,673$329,673$0
Kirkland & Ellis $311,441$294,441$17,000
Squire Patton Boggs $310,596$305,158$5,438
21st Century Fox $302,400$302,400$0
National Amusements Inc $297,534$294,534$3,000
Ernst & Young $297,142$277,142$20,000
Merrill Lynch $292,303$286,303$6,000
Credit Suisse Group $290,600$280,600$10,000
Corning Inc $274,700$256,700$18,000
Greenberg Traurig LLP $273,550$265,450$8,100
This table lists the top donors to this candidate in 1999-2014.  The organizations themselves did not donaterather the money came from the organizations' PACs, their individual members or employees or owners, and those individuals' immediate families. Organization totals include subsidiaries and affiliates.
NOTE: All the numbers on this page are for 1999-2014 and based on Federal Election Commission data available electronically on Monday, February 02, 2015. ("Help! The numbers don't add up...")
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Anoniem zei

+ It's Not the 1 Percent Controlling Politics. It's the 0.01 Percent.

Anoniem zei

WASHINGTON — Top officials in the Koch brothers' political organization Monday released a staggering $889 million budget to fund the activities of the billionaires' sprawling network ahead of the 2016 presidential contest.

The budget, which pays for everything from advertising and data-gathering technology to grass-roots activism, was released to donors attending the annual winter meeting of Freedom Partners Chamber of Commerce, according to an attendee.

Freedom Partners sits at the center of the vast operation, and in 2012 alone, spent nearly $240 million as it funded nearly three dozen organizations, ranging from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to smaller Tea Party groups.

The fundraising target is the latest indication that the industrialists at the center of the network, Charles and David Koch, intend to continue building an operation that could exceed the national political parties in size and scope to help advance their libertarian principles. The spending, unrivaled for an outside organization, represents more than double the nearly $400 million the Republican National Committee (RNC) raised and spent during the 2012 presidential election cycle. usa today

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