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Who Are Paying Obama's Bills? You Might be Surprised
by delzakiya | February 20, 2008 at 10:20 pm | 483 views | 2 comments
Top Contributors
| Goldman Sachs | $421,763 |
| Ubs Ag | $296,670 |
| Lehman Brothers | $250,630 |
| National Amusements Inc | $245,843 |
| JP Morgan Chase & Co | $243,848 |
| Sidley Austin LLP | $226,491 |
| Citigroup Inc | $221,578 |
| Exelon Corp | $221,517 |
| Skadden, Arps Et Al | $196,420 |
| Jones Day | $181,996 |
| Harvard University | $172,324 |
| Citadel Investment Group | $171,798 |
| Time Warner | $155,383 |
| Morgan Stanley | $155,196 |
| Google Inc | $152,802 |
| University of California | $143,029 |
| Jenner & Block | $136,565 |
| Kirkland & Ellis | $134,738 |
| Wilmerhale Llp | $119,245 |
| Credit Suisse Group | $118,250 |
Are you getting the picture? These are powere players, some who laid off their workers and shut some of their branches, but they have money to give. Do you think a student's tuition should go to give political donations, like the $143,029 from the University of California or the $172,324 from Harvard?
Who is National Amusements Inc?
National Amusements holds controlling voting interests in CBS Corporation, Viacom, and Midway Games, MTV Networks, BET, and movie production and distribution Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks movie studios, and is equal partners in MovieTickets.com.
Isn't it nice when donors give so openly?
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February 20, 2008 at 10:20 pm by delzakiya, 483 views, 2 comments
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ryanat 23:03 on February 20th, 2008
delzakiya, thanks for this important information. If I'm not mistaken, we have access to this stuff because of a campaign finance bill that Obama spearheaded.
To judge donations honestly one needs to consider the tax benefits of the donation.
I'd really like to see if these companies made donations to other campaigns.
I fixed the formatting of the story.
at 11:35 on February 21st, 2008
(Please allow for a moment of transparency here - I will likely vote for Obama come the general election. With that in mind, allow me to procede with my comment.)
I think this is good stuff, however to give it context it would be important to expand the story to include the top donors to Clinton, McCain and Huckabee. That would help me put the donations in context - it would help me determine if my candidate might be bought, my candidate is the least bought, or if the entire system might be bought and therefore rotten.
Now I am a photographer, not a reporter, so my skills aren't great, however I think this link to the opensecrets.org 2008 Presidential money breakdown might be a good start in finding starting to locate perspective. (Note: OpenSecrets is a service of the Center for Responsive Politics.)
One last word, if you are looking for information on your state races, you can start finding it here, at Follow the Money.