Who's Banking on Bush - Top Contributors

[NashVegas]

courtesy of opensecrets.org

these are the individual companies:

Morgan Stanley


$573,380

Merrill Lynch


$546,154

PriceWaterhouseCoopers


$499,850

UBS Americas


$439,275

Goldman Sachs


$357,025

MBNA Corp


$348,250

Credit Suisse First Boston


$313,840

Lehman Brothers


$301,575

Bear Stearns


$291,900

Citigroup Inc


$290,350

Ernst & Young


$287,540

Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu


$267,150

Ameriquest Capital


$243,650

Wachovia Corp


$236,510

US Government


$220,926

Blank Rome LLP


$219,150

Bank of America


$195,950

Southern Co


$190,047

Microsoft Corp


$186,490

Vinson & Elkins


$172,200

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John Kerry top contributors. Some of the same names, but to a le$$er extent:

University of California


$481,310

Harvard University


$311,389

Time Warner


$260,199

Microsoft Corp


$258,593

Citigroup Inc


$252,106

Goldman Sachs


$240,500

Skadden, Arps et al


$236,827

UBS Americas


$199,750

Robins, Kaplan et al


$173,150

US Government


$165,125

IBM Corp


$163,340

Stanford University


$161,299

JP Morgan Chase & Co


$159,765

Morgan Stanley


$159,429

Viacom Inc


$152,046

Piper Rudnick LLP


$150,153

Bank of America


$146,502

Columbia University


$142,393

University of Michigan


$134,438

Akin, Gump et al


$130,304


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sectors:

Bush:

Agribusiness $4,282,025
Communic/Electronics $4,787,922
Construction $7,862,318
Defense $701,798
Energy/Nat Resource $4,176,038
Finance/Insur/RealEst $30,242,647
Health $9,372,144
Lawyers & Lobbyists $11,861,466
Transportation $4,293,452
Misc Business $18,251,512
Labor $37,150
Ideology/Single-Issue $1,852,319
Other $24,372,217

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Kerry:

Agribusiness $601,435
Communic/Electronics $7,603,751
Construction $1,811,857
Defense $292,408
Energy/Nat Resource $546,232
Finance/Insur/RealEst $11,328,532
Health $5,633,672
Lawyers & Lobbyists $19,130,026
Transportation $581,984
Misc Business $11,346,924
Labor $249,941
Ideology/Single-Issue $1,195,290
Other $23,627,010

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the areas of primary interest to me are the Energy and Transportation sectors, ie, the people who bring the goods to market, and make the world go 'round like it or not. Although their contributions are minor compared to some of the other industries, their near 10:1 preference for Bush over Kerry is telling. John Kerry needs to convince these merchants he's better for business than Bush.

[blue neen]

1. Thanks for the post.

Interesting how the universities are going for Kerry. What university would really want to be associated with Bush?

[theHandpuppet]

2. Here's another little list of interest:

http://home.att.net/~howingtons/gopontake.html

All kinds of interesting names of top Bush contributors there. Lessee, let's just pull one out for an example, a John and Lucy Woodside. Hmmm.... could that be the same Midland, Texas attorney and ex-FBI Woodside as this fellow of the most interesting resume? http://www.cbtd.com/attorneys/woodsidej.htm

Makes for an easy evening's entertainiment, in any case, doesn't it?