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The Mother Jones 400: Top 400 campaign donors of 2000
THE MOTHER JONES ^ | FR REPOST 01-22-02 | Editorial Staff

Posted on 01/22/2002 7:51:41 AM PST by vannrox


home / The Mother Jones 400 / browse To download The Mother Jones 400 as a text file click here.

DONOR NAME to view that donor's profile.
INDUSTRY to view an industry profile.
STATE to see all donors in that state.
TOTAL CONTRIBUTIONS to see a detailed list of contributions.
RANK   IN 1998   DONOR NAME   INDUSTRY   TOTAL CONTRIBUTIONS   PARTY
               
  1   6   S. Daniel Abraham (with Ewa)
Former Chairman, Slim-Fast Foods, Palm Beach, FL
  Health   $1,518,500  
               
  2   3   Bernard L. Schwartz (with Irene)
CEO, Loral Space & Communications, New York, NY
  Communications   $1,317,000  
               
  3     Davidi Gilo (with Shamaya)
Chairman, Vyyo, Inc., Cupertino, CA
  Communications   $1,311,000  
               
  4   2   Peter L. Buttenwieser (with Terry A. Marek)
Owner, Peter L. Buttenwieser & Associates, Philadelphia, PA
  Single Issue & Other   $1,304,700  
               
  5   155   Haim Saban (with Cheryl)
Chairman & CEO, Fox Family Worldwide, Inc., Los Angeles, CA
  Communications   $1,250,500  
               
  6   4   Carl H. Lindner (with Edyth)
Chairman & CEO, American Financial Group, Cincinnati, OH
  Finance   $1,216,000  
               
  7   54   Peter G. Angelos (with Georgia K.)
President, Law Offices of Peter G. Angelos, Baltimore, MD
  Lawyers & Lobbyists   $959,500  
               
  8   15   Fred Eychaner
Owner, Newsweb Corp., Chicago, IL
  Communications   $946,000  
               
  9     Constance Milstein
Principal, Milstein Properties, New York, NY
  Finance   $932,515  
               
  10   269   John M. O'Quinn
Partner, O'Quinn & Laminack, Houston, TX
  Lawyers & Lobbyists   $840,250  
               
  11     Finn M.W. Caspersen (with Barbara)
Chairman & CEO, Knickerbocker Management, Gladstone, NJ
  Finance   $807,000  
               
  12   1   Richard M. DeVos Sr. (with Helen)
Founder, Amway, Inc., Grand Rapids, MI
  Manufacturing & Retail   $764,500  
               
  13     Stephen L. Bing
Screenwriter & Producer, Los Angeles, CA
  Communications   $759,000  
               
  14     David J. Shimmon
President, Kinetics Group, Inc., Los Altos Hills, CA
  High Tech   $727,000  
               
  15   32   Richard T. Farmer (with Joyce E.)
Chairman, Cintas Corp., Cincinnati, OH
  Manufacturing & Retail   $721,000  
               
  16     Terrance Watanabe
Chairman, Oriental Trading Co., Omaha, NE
  Manufacturing & Retail   $704,700  
               
  17   5   John W. Childs (with Marlene)
President, J.W. Childs Associates, Boston, MA
  Finance   $670,000  
               
  18   12   Walter H. Shorenstein
Chairman Emeritus, The Shorenstein Co., San Francisco, CA
  Finance   $664,148  
               
  19     Steven T. Kirsch (with Michele)
Founder & Former Chairman, Infoseek, Los Altos Hills, CA
  High Tech   $655,000  
               
  20   100   David S. Steiner (with Sylvia L.)
Chairman, Steiner Equities, West Orange, NJ
  Finance   $651,150  
               
  21     Michael J. Perik (with Elizabeth Beretta Perik)
Co-founder, The Learning Co., Wellesley, MA
  High Tech   $643,000  
               
  22   18   Ian M. Cumming (with Annette P.)
Chairman, Leucadia National Corp., Salt Lake City, UT
  Finance   $632,300  
               
  23   36   Sam Fox (with Marilyn)
Chairman & CEO, The Harbour Group, Clayton, MO
  Manufacturing & Retail   $626,700  
               
  24   64   John Eddie Williams Jr.
Partner, Williams Bailey Law Firm, Houston, TX
  Lawyers & Lobbyists   $621,000  
               
  25     Kenneth A. Eldred (with Roberta E.)
Founder, Ariba, Inc., Portola Valley, CA
  Finance   $617,500  
               
  NEXT 25 DONORS
Gives 75 percent or more to Republicans Gives 75 percentor more to Democrats Gives to both Republicans and Democrats

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ALWAYS GOOD TO REVIEW THIS INFORMATION. WHICH COMPANIES ARE LAYING PEOPLE OFF? WHICH COMPANIES ARE SUPPORTING BUSH?
1 posted on 01/22/2002 7:51:41 AM PST by vannrox
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To: Nix 2
This page will interest you.
2 posted on 01/22/2002 7:56:21 AM PST by First_Salute
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To: vannrox;howlin;uncle_bill
Constance Milstein
Principal, Milstein Properties, New York, NY

Helped CLintons get their property?

3 posted on 01/22/2002 8:01:29 AM PST by RedBloodedAmerican
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To: vannrox
Looks like a lot of trial lawyers and Jewish Americans. No wonder Bush nominated Eisenberg as finance chair for the RNC!
4 posted on 01/22/2002 8:23:36 AM PST by Clemenza
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To: vannrox
I smell a big, fat, yellow toothed rat. A democrate rat.

"...Donors are identified as Republican or Democrat if they gave 75 percent or more of their contributions to a single party and its candidates...."
Why was the cutoff in determining which party put at 75 percent? Why not at a 51 percent? Could it be because the 350 of the top donors would be democrates? If MoJo took the 75 number it is because their cause is week. They are hiding something.

5 posted on 01/22/2002 8:53:24 AM PST by Leisler
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To: vannrox
Informative Bump.
6 posted on 01/22/2002 8:58:28 AM PST by DoctorMichael
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To: vannrox

Who Gave What to Who in the 1999-2000 Election Cycle?

MotherJones.com does a bi-yearly compilation of the top 400 indivicual givers to political campaigns.  If (like me) you're a former leftist you expect the rhetoric to be heavy and the analysis light.  You're right.  However, a little bit of time  with a spreadsheet gives some insight into the wrong-headedness of conventional wisdom.

Note:  Jones ranks givers as either Democrats (more than 75% of giving to Democrats), Republicans (more than 75% of giving to Republicans) or Both (giving to both parties greater than 25%, less than 50%). 

After sorting the data, you find

1.  Eight Democrats and two Both in the Top 10.  No Republicans.  Hmmm.... which party is the party of the rich?

2.  Total giving for Top 50 was $35,370,575, $20,7685 by Democrats, $12,070,367 by Republics and $2,534,250 by Both.

3.  Average giving by a Both was $844,750, by a Democrat $798,690,  and $574,779 by a Republican.

4.  Jones divides the source of the givers money in to eight categories.  Givers with income from finance and communications dominated the Top Fifty.  Energy was last.  Manufacturing and Energy were the only categories where giving to Republicans exceeded giving to Democrats.

 

Top 50 Givers

Gave To

Total This Party

Percent This Party

Number This Party

Average This Party

Dems $20,765,958 59% 26 $798,690
Reps $12,070,367 34% 21 $574,779
Both $2,534,250 7% 3 $844,750
Total $35,370,575

100%

50

$707,411

 

Industry Giving
Finance $11,561,281
Communications $8,807,152
High Tech $4,277,833
Single Issue & Other $2,867,559
Manufacturing & Retail $2,816,900
Lawyers & Lobbyists $2,420,750
Health $1,518,500
Energy $1,100,600

 

      Percent This industry Givers Average this industry
Communications $511,250 Both $511,250 6%      
Communications $527,000 Democrat $7,240,402 82%      
Communications $514,000 Republican $1,055,500 12% $8,807,152 11 $800,650.18
             
Energy $502,600 Republican $1,100,600 100% $1,100,600 2 $550,300.00
             
Finance $807,000 Both $2,023,000 17%      
Finance $498,000 Democrat $4,451,931 39%      
Finance $506,000 Republican $5,086,350 44% $11,561,281 18 $642,293.39
             
Health

$1,518,500

Democrat $1,518,500 100% $1,518,500 1 $1,518,500.00
             
High Tech $601,900 Democrat $2,626,900 61%      
High Tech $500,000 Republican $1,650,933 39% $4,277,833 7 $611,119.00
             
             
Lawyers & Lobbyists $621,000 Democrat $2,420,750 100% $2,420,750 3 $806,916.67
             
Manufacturing & Retail $704,700 Democrat $704,700 25%      
Manufacturing & Retail $626,700 Republican $2,112,200 75% $2,816,900 4 $704,225.00
             
Single Issue & Other $498,075 Democrat $1,802,775 63%      
Single Issue & Other $508,834 Republican $1,064,784 37% $2,867,559 4 $716,889.75

 

 

 

 

 

 

7 posted on 01/22/2002 11:07:41 AM PST by John Hines
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To: John Hines
Mother Jones bump.
8 posted on 01/22/2002 12:27:29 PM PST by justshutupandtakeit
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To: vannrox
Bump, for later study.
9 posted on 01/22/2002 12:32:53 PM PST by FairWitness
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To: John Hines
Excellent analysis...so far.
10 posted on 01/22/2002 4:31:46 PM PST by eleni121
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To: RedBloodedAmerican
Constance Milstein Principal, Milstein Properties, New York, NY

Isn't she the "ordinary New York Matron" (her quote) that was involved in the "Smokes for Votes" scandal here in Milwaukee?

11 posted on 01/22/2002 8:45:27 PM PST by Mygirlsmom
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To: vannrox
5
Haim Saban (with Cheryl) Chairman & CEO
, Fox Family Worldwide, Inc.,
Los Angeles, CA
Communications
$1,250,500

Hey, we Freeped his house in Los Angeles when Bubba was there!!!

12 posted on 01/22/2002 8:50:18 PM PST by BunnySlippers
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To: First_Salute
First Salute,
If you are trying to make a point with me that you think I don't understand, please be advised that you are very wrong. I understand only too well, and I am praying and working with all my heart and soul to change hearts and minds within our own houses...as are most of the Jewish Conservatives on this board, or we would not be here.

Repost:

Strike two -- The increasingly controversial choice of financier Lew Eisenberg to head up fundraising for the Republican National Committee is expected to be a hot topic at its meeting next week in Austin, Texas. Eisenberg, who is the financial angel behind the left-leaning Republican Leadership Council, will reportedly have his name placed in nomination by Georgia GOP Chairman Ralph Reed, a former leader of the Christian conservative political movement. Reed, who is also a veteran GOP operative, may have second thoughts when he learns that in 1984, Eisenberg was a donor to Walter Mondale's unsuccessful campaign against Ronald Reagan for president.

How "left" is Eisenberg NOW? I for one sense great moments if Ralph Reed is nominating him - hard to believe RR/CC et al wouldn't have researched Eisenberg's past and cleared him for the present/future (though stranger things have happened). Any comments welcomed.

6 posted on 1/20/02 7:30 PM Eastern by Yehuda

To: Yehuda

He is still left, but now *left* in the Republican Party is called *moderate*. Since he really won't be making decisions on where the money gets spent, here are four words for you:
New York
California
Florida
Philadelphia.
It is pretty tricky to do this, actually. Usually, Jewish money flows into dem coffers. But I don't think so this time, except for a few genuine diehard Hollywierdos.
The Pubs NEED to stop Rendell from becoming governor of Pennsylvania putting PA back under thug rule. Jeb Bush is very popular in FLA but I trust Reno and her Mafia about as far as I can throw them. And we HAVE to get the Senate back. It takes bucks. And W is fighting the *good* war. A lot of people who would not generally be expected to contribute to Republicans WILL if Eisenberg is championing them, even if he doesn't agree with them on anything at all.
I think the dems are going to be mighty surprised when the doors start slamming shut.

13 posted on 1/20/02 8:56 PM Eastern by Nix 2

13 posted on 01/22/2002 11:48:00 PM PST by Nix 2
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To: vannrox
Speaking of wealthy people, see Democrat National Committee boss, Terry McAuliffe's statement:
"This is capitalism. You invest in stock, it goes up, it goes down. You know, if you don't like capitalism, you don't like making money with stock, move to Cuba or China."

at McAuliffe: My Stock Killing Critics Should 'Move to Cuba', January 30, 2002 --- a statement which is not a good career move when trying to "lead" a progressive movement of the socialists by the socialists for the socialists in the name of the people.

14 posted on 01/30/2002 8:08:17 AM PST by First_Salute
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To: First_Salute
I really dislike McAuliffe as much as I dislike the Snake Carville!
15 posted on 01/30/2002 7:02:28 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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