Heads up people, here's some info I haven't seen before and ties right in with Dean's insistance that Kerry is tied too tight to big business:
go to Open Secrets.org
click on Dean
on the left menu click on
Top Sectors
Top Industries
Dean's totals are all so low, the site has a messages that says they're too low to show an amount
Here's what is says about John Kerry ---
Kerry's Top Industry Contributors:
1
Lawyers/Law Firms
$3,090,199
2
Securities & Investment
$1,048,075
3
Retired
$753,870
4
Real Estate
$714,260
5
Business Services
$444,400
6
TV/Movies/Music
$437,075
7
Misc Business
$350,906
8
Misc Finance
$340,525
9
Health Professionals
$338,076
10
Education
$335,665
11
Computers/Internet
$254,750
12
Lobbyists
$227,950
13
Commercial Banks
$217,125
14
General Contractors
$162,220
15
Civil Servants/Public Officials
$161,840
16
Printing & Publishing
$152,625
17
Insurance
$128,200
18
Misc Manufacturing & Distributing
$116,325
19
Accountants
$109,825
20
Retail Sales
$95,535
Totals by Sector:
Agribusiness $62,020
Communic/Electronics $908,400
Construction $311,320
Defense $27,950
Energy/Nat Resource $73,150
Finance/Insur/RealEst $2,603,260
Health $541,451
Lawyers & Lobbyists $3,318,149
Transportation $90,425
Misc Business $1,314,161
Labor $9,250
Ideology/Single-Issue $95,327
Other $1,440,743
How about Top Contributors?
This is the format:
Contributor
Total
Hard Money
Soft Money
Boston Capital Corp
$50,000
$0
$50,000
International Data Group
$50,000
$0
$50,000
Loral Space & Communications
$30,000
$0
$30,000
Google
$30,000
$5,000
$25,000
Jay Cashman Construction
$25,000
$0
$25,000
Packard, Packard & Johnson
$25,000
$15,000
$10,000
The Clinton Group
$25,000
$0
$25,000
Glenborough Realty Trust Inc
$25,000
$0
$25,000
American International Group
$25,000
$0
$25,000
Raymond Property Co
$25,000
$0
$25,000
Modern Continental Co
$25,000
$0
$25,000
J Epstein & Co
$25,000
$0
$25,000
Agvar Chemicals
$25,000
$0
$25,000
Cognex Group
$25,000
$0
$25,000
Greenfield & Goodman
$20,000
$0
$20,000
Policom Inc
$20,000
$0
$20,000
Jennings Road Management Corp
$20,000
$0
$20,000
Democratic Senatorial Campaign Cmte
$18,000
$18,000
$0
Ameriquest Capital Corp
$18,000
$0
$18,000
AT&T
$17,500
$0
$17,500
I'd say it looks like John is in the 'special interests' back pocket, and Howard Dean is in that of "we the people".
Now who looks more 'Presidential'????
