McCain donors include:
• Jonathan E. Colby, managing director of The Carlyle Group, a global private equity firm.
• Edward F. Cox Jr., a partner at the law firm of Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler. Cox, a son-in-law to the late President Richard M. Nixon, in 2005 launched a challenge to New York Democratic Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton in the next year’s election, but withdrew after then-Republican Gov. George E. Pataki stated a preference for another candidate.
Patricia Nixon Cox, Ed Cox’s wife and the former president’s daughter, also donated to McCain’s campaign.
• Arthur B. Culvahouse, attorney and chairman of the firm O’Melveny & Myers. Culvahouse served as White House counsel to President Ronald Reagan from 1987 to 1989.
• Becki Donatelli, president of Campaign Solutions Inc. Donatelli’s biography describes her as the “lead Internet consultant” to McCain’s 2000 campaign for the Republican presidential nomination, and his 2008 exploratory campaign is a Donatelli client.
• Roger J. Enrico, chairman of DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc.
• Carly Fiorina, former CEO and chairman of the board of the Hewlett-Packard technology company.
• Peter G. Fitzgerald, chairman of Chain Bridge Bancorp Inc. and former U.S. senator of Illinois. Fitzgerald was elected in 1998 but retired after just one term, with Democrat Barack Obama winning his open seat in 2004. Like McCain, Fitzgerald developed a reputation as a “maverick” within the ranks of Senate Republicans.
• Phil Gramm, an investment banker at UBS who, as a U.S. senator of Texas from 1985 to 2002, was a longtime McCain colleague. McCain chaired Gramm’s ultimately short-lived campaign for the 1996 Republican presidential nomination. Gramm’s wife Wendy, an economist, also donated to McCain’s exploratory effort.
• Douglas J. Holtz-Eakin, former director of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). Holtz-Eakin is the economic policy chairman for McCain’s bid.
• Henry A. Kissinger, the U.S. secretary of State under Presidents Nixon and Gerald R. Ford, who is president of the consulting firm Kissinger and Associates.
• John F. Lehman, chairman of J.F. Lehman & Company, an investment firm that specializes in defense-related industries. Lehman served as a Navy secretary under President Ronald Reagan and more recently served as a member of the federal commission that investigated the Sept. 11, terrorist attacks.
• Mark McKinnon, vice chairman of Public Strategies Inc. ($500 donation). McKinnon is advising McCain’s presidential campaign and directed advertising for George W. Bush’s successful presidential campaigns in 2000 and 2004.
• Bob Perry, homebuilder ($4,200 donation). A prominent donor to Republican committees and candidates and conservative-leaning “527” political organizations, Perry was a major financial backer of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, the organization that assailed the military credentials of 2004 Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry. Perry’s contribution was included among the $1.05 million that McCain transferred from his Senate campaign committee.
• Theodore Roosevelt IV, a managing director at the investment brokerage Lehman Brothers. McCain has long considered himself as a “Teddy Roosevelt Republican,” so it should come as no surprise that the great-grandson and namesake of the late Republican president is backing McCain.
• Orson Swindle, consultant for Orson Swindle Associates LLC ($1,000 donation). Like McCain, Swindle is a former Vietnam prisoner of war. Swindle ran respectable but losing House campaigns in Hawaii’s 1st Congressional District in 1994 and 1996, falling to Democratic incumbent Neil Abercrombie. He later served as a member of the Federal Trade Commission.
• John W. Timmons, founding partner of The Cormac Group, a consulting and lobbying firm. Timmons is a former legislative director to McCain.
http://www.nytimes.com/cq/2007/02/01/cq_2221.html
wow!
(Tricia Nixon? really?)