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American Oligarchy: 400 Families Represent 50% Of Money Raised by 2016 Presidential Candidates So Far
Submitted by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,
Ever since I started this website in 2012, one of my primary objectives was to convince readers that the American system of government is nothing like what we are told in school and via the oligarch-owned mainstream media. That the country has become so captured and corrupted by sociopathic oligarchs, that a neo-feudal modern serfdom was emerging where the opportunities to enjoy rising standards of living for the vast majority of people was rapidly becoming a pipe dream.
I think many readers appreciated my warnings, but it wasn’t until an academic study from Princeton and Northwestern came out and factually proved it, that it become undeniable to many people. Here’s a brief excerpt from that post titled, New Report from Princeton and Northwestern Proves It: The U.S. is an Oligarchy:
Despite the seemingly strong empirical support in previous studies for theories of majoritarian democracy, our analyses suggest that majorities of the American public actually have little influence over the policies our government adopts. Americans do enjoy many features central to democratic governance, such as regular elections, freedom of speech and association, and a widespread (if still contested) franchise. But we believe that if policymaking is dominated by powerful business organizations and a small number of affluent Americans, then America’s claims to being a democratic society are seriously threatened.
Ever since that study came out, I’ve noticed more and more people publicly admitting that the U.S. in nothing more than an oligarchy. Even former U.S. President Jimmy Carter said it last week.
Meanwhile, just today, I came across the latest shocking proof of how bought and paid for “our” political system really is. We find out from the New York Times, that only 400 families account for nearly half of all spending on the 2016 Presidential election so far. The Dark Ages almost look democratic by comparison.
From the NY Times:
Fewer than four hundred families are responsible for almost half the money raised in the 2016 presidential campaign, a concentration of political donors that is unprecedented in the modern era.
The vast majority of the $388 million backing presidential candidates this year is being channeled to groups that can accept unlimited contributions in support of candidates from almost any source. The speed with which such “super PACs” can raise money — sometimes bringing in tens of millions of dollars from a few businesses or individuals in a matter of days — has allowed them to build enormous campaign war chests in a fraction of the time that it would take the candidates, who are restricted in how much they can accept from a single donor.
A New York Times analysis of Federal Election Commission reports and Internal Revenue Service records shows that the fund-raising arms race has made most of the presidential hopefuls deeply dependent on a small pool of the richest Americans.
And that’s exactly how the oligarchs like it.
To peruse the top donors in presidential politics is to take a cross section of the wealthiest 1 percent of Americans. At least 67 are billionaires or married to one, according to Forbes.
“In the donor world, it is primarily a love of economic freedom,” said Chart Westcott, a Dallas private equity investor who has contributed $200,000 to Unintimidated PAC, a group backing Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin. “That’s the biggest drive for most donors — more prosperity for the country as a whole, as well as for themselves.”
“More prosperity for the country as a whole…”
Really? Where is this widespread prosperity, at the end of the rainbow in a leprechaun’s hat?
Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, a favorite of the Tea Party movement, has raised the most cash from the fewest donors. A collection of super PACs supporting Mr. Cruz raised $37 million, nearly all of it from three families. Robert Mercer, a deeply private hedge fund investor from New York, contributed $11 million, making him the top known political donor in the country so far this election cycle.
Ted Cruz knows how to say the right things, but he knows where his bread is buttered.
But millions of dollars also came from corporate entities with no clear link to a known individual or business: One million-dollar donor to the pro-Bush super PAC is Jasper Reserves, a limited liability corporation established two years ago in West Virginia, where records provided few clues about its owners.
Big donors are not only patrons of the candidates but also confidantes, with great access to the candidates — and, sometimes, business before them.
Mr. Braman has previously subsidized Mr. Rubio’s salary, and employed his wife. Mr. Fernandez, who became a billionaire after building several health care companies, emailed with Mr. Bush often when he was governor of Florida to ask about doing business with the state, Mr. Bush’s emails show.
The largest single donation to America Leads, a group supporting Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey, came from a Boston investor seeking to build a $4 billion casino resort there. At least five donors to Mr. Walker’s super PAC are companies that received hundreds of thousands of dollars in aid from Wisconsin’s economic development agency, according to state records.
“Are they going to return people’s phone calls? Yeah, I’m sure they’re going to return people’s phone calls,” Mr. Keating said. “But I don’t think it’s going to drive policy.”
Apparently Mr. Keating never heard of a little family called “The Clintons.”
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Hope and Change baby....
Go Rand Paul.
Putting a competent captain at the helm is not going to save the ship thats already started down the waterfall.
It only takes one executive order to rescind all the previous ones and abolish all the federal agencies. Not that I think that will happen but that's all it takes.
Aint gonna happen since Rand is taking his orders from Tel Aviv. Did you miss his trip to the Wailing Wall?
He's controlled opposition. Nothing more.
His beanie wearing picture would have been better if he was deep throating a corn dog.
All these fucks can choke on a bag of dicks.
All the voters out there are like beaten wives, running around showing everyone how caring "their" guy is, that is, when he's not making them fuck his friends.
pods
NeoFuedalism....2.0
Feudals on the menu
RIPS
So let's see the list of 400
The real issue is you can't count on the wealthiest of today as having the country's best interests at heart. When the Four Hundred was mostly WASP, you assumed if you were middle-class that their interests were reasonably aligned with your own. Not anymore.
Ask AIPAC why.
Super-Pacs are People too!
farrakhan has set his sights on 400 families
or not
harder to energize the listener by listing a buncha families
plus, they donate to charities
Does Calypso Louie have a target list? After his set of comments (more than just this), I'd bet he has a list of people he'd be interested in involving into the future, for future "opportunities".
- Ned
I confess to being 50% of Lindsey Graham campaign funding, I mailed him a $5 check last week.
Did he send you a pair of his panties for your donation?
No, He's still in the closet WITH his panties.
Let's see who got the most money from small donorsd in 2012? Answer: Ron Paul. His 'money bombs' gave him millions and millions and they came from small donoations from everyday people.
Who is getting the most money from small donors in the 2016 campaign? Answer: Rand Paul. It's obvious that their hgameplan is going to be the same this year. Ignore and marginalize his campaign at every turn.
The reason I support Rand is simply because having him be in the debates forces the Rank and File Republicans to hear him chime in on issues and raise other issues on prime time TV. I am a active member in the local Republican party simply so that I can get the ears of the electeds and the other party people. I have seen them go from blind support of Peter King in 2009 to calling him a sell out traitor in 2014. The Rank and file on the right in Long Island are waking up. We just need to keep hammering the message.
Sorry, but I see right through the Republican scam. Which is to create a dozen or so candidates from various demographic groups and political shades, and get the attention of the otherwise disinterested. These candidates, including Trump, are faux. They are put up jobs.
Jeb Bush is your nominee. Should I have said "spoiler alert"?
So I'm not wasting any time with the clowns in this circus.
^^This^^
Can't believe you were not attacked. People want a saviour and think it will be in man. Funny creatures when you grab popcorn and observe.
They think the system is run by one man of their choice...what abunch of pathetic Losers.
RIPS
Jeb Bush as savior. How nauseating.
FORWARD SOVIET!
If you are right (and I think you are), then the sham two-party system will expire sooner rather than later.
There is now a critical mass of informed+independent thinkers & doers of the conservative/libertarian/distributist variety, and another Bush candidacy will trigger the formation of a third/rogue party. Yes, this will empower the Left, but there is no other way for this to play-out... Leftist lemmings will toe the line, but independents are finished with the false logic/choice of "the lesser of two evils".
The GOP establishment has already tipped their hand - they are very comfortable with irrelevancy so long as oligarchy & incumbancy guarantees passage on the globalist ark + all the perks that go with it.
"Those that make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable" - JFK
Funny you would use the word "ark." Dual passport required, now boarding for Tel Aviv.
Were you active in the (R) party in 2012 when they pulled out every dirty procedural trick in the book to block Ron Paul from the presidential nomination?
Its good to have Rand, Ted, and Scott in the debate. Most importantly, The "Don", who does not need to take contributions from any corporate masters.
I prefer to see Don as Prez. He can have Ted be his 1st Supreme Court pick, put Trey Gowdy as AG, and Scott Walker can be his VP. Rand Paul can be the new Sec of State.
Wouldn't that be a hoot!
THE Donald would b a mighty bad follower to a mighty bad current administration. Donald ain't no follower of "Law" let alone of the "Constitution".
I put "Constitution" into quotes not to disrespect the original document, rather, to piss on the current interpretations.
So: I'd like to see u hog-tied and being abused. Now, that might warrant a hoot.
- Ned
"Let's see who got the most money from small donorsd in 2012? Answer: Ron Paul."
Let's see who recieved the most from small donors in 2016? Answer: Bernie Sanders.
"As of its most recent reporting, the campaign raised $15 million from 400,000 donations from 200,000 donors."
Bernie Sanders Is Out-Fundraising EVERY GOP Candidate, But..Just what we need. After a stealth socialist, an avowed socialist.
We're doomed.
to both of u old dogz:
Let's appreciate Bernie for his honesty and plain spoken-ess. And his wishing to close the borderz (for his union budz, but that is OK)
We gonna need to know which other COUNTRY'S the remaining 50% is coming from.
The article seemed to suggest
that most of the remaining 50% came from corporations
with opaque ownership.
always examples of donations to the GOP...where public and private unions donate the most money! Then of course there is the self funding Hillary Beast!
This was caused by the Supreme Court!
There still are checks and balances in government whether they are followed or not. To lay blame on one cabinet is severly underestimating the problem.
not by Citizens United it wasnt,, if that's the Daily Kos-like misapprehension of that case you'r einclined to spread.
And Super PACs came out of some earlier case.
Donations by billionaires is a far larger problem than corporate donations.
corporations have shareholders, a board, consumers they dont want to tick off. They tend to give to both parties.
But guys like Sheldon Adelson and Haim Saban - Zionist pigs and warmongers, can give tens of millions to a Gingrich or the newly vile Randy Paul and Chris Fattie to try to buy the US Presidency for the sole purpose of endless wars for Ersatz Israel.
ya and Soros, Buffet, Steyer are the good guys?
Most of the money comes from only a few people because they know what the name of the game is. The funny part is how enfranchised people think they are.
My idea is requiring Congress to only accept donations from within their state, NY and RI could both be fun.....
Boycott their businesses.Oops I Forgot you can't boycott the military industrial complex.
Lately ZH has been populated by a hootenanny of partisans cheerleading for their favorite crony politicians.
A boycott would be good. On "eLection day" cancel any appointments, turn off all internet, tv, media shit, go nowhere, buy nothing.
There are third party candidates, and possibly other issues on the ballot.
Voting for those candidates is likely a more visible protest than staying at home.
IF you absolutely refuse to vote as protest,
shouldn't you also make a sign "Protest, Don't Vote in rigged elections",
and picket a voting booth.
Otherwise, absent any visible protest and motive,
there is merely the impression of either lazy insouciance,
or possibly opposition to all voting, whether rigged or not.
The best government money can buy
Carlin - The Real Owners Of America
Dammit Tylers, where is the link to that bumper sticker? I want 100 of them.
Here's a nicer image.
http://www.nationofchange.org/2015/wp-content/uploads/Oligarchy040815.png
Small "suggested" homework assignment: read DeTocqueville, 'Democracy in America'.
This may sound like pretty basic stuff for us old-heads but it's come to my attention that almost nobody younger than ~40 has ever been requred to read this throughout any of their schooling, including College. I don't believe that's by accident, so do yourself a favor and read it if you've not had the pleasure before.
The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.
Classic DeTocqueville
DeTocqueville has been replaced by
Howard Zinn's "A People's History"The Big Crash was supposed to correct this. Those with the most amount of assets suffer most during such a storm. Don't change the game then the players never change either.
Whores, every one.
"The Dark Ages almost look democratic by comparison."
The system has been perverted to the point where it's pretty fucked up but statements like the above are beyond bombastic. Reprinting this kind of shit really eats away at ZH's credibility. By comparison making that statement during the Dark Ages would have earned you a pike up the ass.
And how many of those 400 are Tribe members ?? Wow what are the odds. Then try and figure out the % of Tribe to population. And any rational person can only come up with something is really fucking wrong here !!!
"Cruz raised $37 million nearly all from 3 families"
You said that but not which families?
It's in the NYT link
Maybe if we had elected the son of a poor villager from Kenya, things would be different now. /s
And then there is the Big Four ..
I consider a family warm and loving who helps others in a time of need. This is more of satan spawn who is lower than snake shit.
Along with the Global Economy, I control the Oligarchs, their clubs, their families, and their profits, and losses. Furthermore, I am in their Club, but they can't get into my Club unless they are invited, Mr. Kreiger.
I want the bumper sticker. I may not like your sticker's statement, but I believe in your right to stick it.
‘Commentary’ says amount of US political money coming from Jews is ‘staggering’
http://mondoweiss.net/2012/03/commentary-says-amount-of-us-political-mon...
Jewish donors prominent in presidential campaign contributions
http://www.timesofisrael.com/jewish-donors-prominent-in-presidential-cam...
http://www.occidentaldissent.com/2009/10/30/jewish-power-campaign-contri...
When a highly ethnocentric group, largely loyal dually or primarily to a belligerent foreign state, which is only 2.5% of the population, is by various estimates 40-60% of private donations to BOTH of the only 2 major parties...
AND NO ONE WILL TALK ABOUT IT
You no longer have a democracy. You have a proxy ethnarchy.
One in which there more American Jews join the IDF than the US Army, one in which there are so many Jewish pro-Israel advocacy groups a group was formed out of the Presidents of some of them... a group which has -in JINSA - the only ethnic or religious DC think tank dedicated to co-promoting US and Israeli militarism as if the two vastly different states have perfectly aligned interests...
[JINSA Behind Drive To
Cover-Up Israeli Spy Scandal
http://www.rense.com/general18/jinsa.htm ]
and where most of all you can talk about absolutely anything you like except that group's power.
....
How to talk about Jewish money influencing politics without getting into trouble
http://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2014/08/how-to-talk-about-jewish-mo...
Let's guess; you hate the Jews and blame them for your problems. People's inherited nature is the issue not the ethnicity; look at the correlation to the moral decline with the world decline. The spiritual reality manifests in physical reality. Man is born to trouble as the sparks fly upward.
zzzzzz
get some new material. This rhetoric isn't going to work for you.
The massive contribution by a tiny group of people doesn't merit discussion because they're Jews?
Fuck you.
"TO SEE WHAT IS IN FRONT OF ONE'S NOSE REQUIRES A CONSTANT STRUGGLE."
-- George Orwell, 1946
"THERE IS NOTHING MORE FRIGHTENING THAN ACTIVE IGNORANCE."
-- Goethe
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"Wherever the Jews settled [in their Diaspora] one observes the development of anti-Semitism, or rather anti-Judaism ... If this hostility, this repugnance had been shown towards the Jews at one time or in one country only, it would be easy to account for the local cause of this sentiment. But this race has been the object of hatred with all nations amidst whom it settled. Inasmuch as the enemies of Jews belonged to diverse races, as they dwelled far apart from one another, were ruled by different laws and governed by opposite principles; as they had not the same customs and differed in spirit from one another, so that they could not possibly judge alike of any subject, it must needs be that the general causes of anti-Semitism have always resided in [the people of] Israel itself, and not in those who antagonized it."
Bernard Lazare,
French Jewish author and later Zionist, written at the turn of the 20th century,
Antisemitism. Its History and Causes. Britons Publishing Co., London, 1967
- http://radioislam.org/thetruth/antis.htm
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http://www.aishdas.org/avodah/faxes/mmOnNachriim.pdf
THE CAUSES OF HOSTILITY TOWARDS JEWS: A HISTORICAL OVERVIEW
http://holywar.org/jewishtr/02hos.htm
Let me guess, you take any statistical anomolies being brought up and turn it into a race/religious issue?
do the math numbnutt!!
a statistical anomoly has meaning, there's is an idea that creates that anomoly which has meaning, ergo there is an issue which has to do with a certain group looking for certian powers and control.
just because the ideas are represented by numbers doesn't mean it is devoid of meaning
Politicians and their masters motto's: "It is very GOOD for you as long as it is not for U.S.!" & "Since it is good for us, then it is NOT for you".
The NY Times is really gloating over Zion's domination of the list of the top-400 purchasers of Zion's colonial governors.
Liberty is a demand. Tyranny is submission..
Save the "donations," and just "return."
Why Are Russia and China (and Iran) Paramount Enemies For the U.S. Ruling Elite?
http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/05/23/why-are-russia-and-china-and-iran...
"The lack of money is the root of all evil."
- Mark Twain
We were never a democracy. We were a republic. The danger to democracy is mob rule. The danger to a republic is that a small number of people (representatives) are vulnerable to being bought by the highest bidders....and apparently, that is exactly what has happened.
The word "eager" works better than "vulnerable" At this stage it might be time to give mobs a chance.
The whole key to preventing congress from being bought had to do with congressional apportionment-the number of individuals represented by a congressman.
The number of seats in the House of Representatives was fixed around 1890's. Seats have been added for states and territiories since such that presently it is limited at 435 seat (basically 1:700000-one congressman/seven hundred thousand citizens as of present)
Original congressional apportionment was set at 1:30000.
if adhered to today, this would be 10,000 congressional representatives. They would have to meet electronically from within their districts-far, far away form the temptations of K St lobbyists. their office would be accessible to their constituents
This alone would result in dilution of Oligarch power completely
Good point...and I also agree with the "Mob Rule" comment at this point.
The Shadow of Zog
(Exegesis of Besson)
By Israel Shamir
http://radioislam.org/thetruth/zog.htm
Patriots’ Owner’s Wife Says Her Sons Could Fight for Israel, Not U.S.
http://mondoweiss.net/2008/03/the-jpost-asked
The New England Patriots and Israel
http://mondoweiss.net/2015/02/england-patriots-israel
Rob’t Kraft accuses Putin 8 years later– why now?
http://mondoweiss.net/2013/06/accuses-years-later
Patriots’ owner brings 20 NFL veterans to Netanyahu who calls on them to block Obama’s Iran deal
http://mondoweiss.net/2015/06/patriots-veterans-netanyahu
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Billionaire Gingrich backer Adelson regrets he served in US instead of Israeli military
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/billionaire-gingrich-b...
Newt Gingrich's sugar daddy not proud of serving America
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/02/22/1067105/-Gingrich-s-sugar-daddy...
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By all means, let us have the dual loyalty debate
http://mondoweiss.net/2009/03/charles-lane-in-the-washington-post-correc...
zh, nice post. good work by those who are putting this together.
Didn't you guys get the memo. Money = Free Speach There is absolutely nothing wrong with this. It is certainly legal and moral. /s
This problem is uninteresting because there is no means to solve it. You can't fix stupid.
Even if USA collapses, new states will be reborn and follow the same path again.
Check back in a few hundred years when our AI descendants have supplanted us.
The “Government Sold To Highest Bidder” 'Hoax.
To cite an exertion of 1/1000 the power of another force as the most dangerous issue, is to engage in intellectual pornography.
http://www.teapartytribune.com/2015/08/04/the-government-sold-to-highest...
Compare the Bids
So, over a 4 year cycle, the gov't is outbidding the private sector $8 trillion to $6B, a factor of 1000:1, 3 orders of magnitude. The purchased power of business is therefore 1/1000, 0.1%, of influence on government.
In engineering, we used the technical term "mice nuts" to disregard such minuscule influences on behavior. To cite an exertion of 1/1000 the power of another force as the most dangerous issue, is to engage in intellectual pornography. "Conscientious stupidity", as MLK opined about people pretending there was no racism in the laws of his day.
I suspect that both the US and the rest of the world would benefit from American presidents with a less aggressive foreign policy.
Would the most powerful current super pacs approve of candidates like Nixon and Carter? In the 1970s, they were the mainstream alternatives. Today, they would perhaps not be considered as mainstream alternatives if they did not adapt themselves to the current political landscape. There was also a difference between George Bush Sr and George Bush Jr.
A new super pac that would support more moderate candidates like Carter and more old fashioned republicans would probably benefit America and the rest of the world. Ron Paul was probably too extreme to left-wing republicans and democrats. If 50 % of the electorate depends on subsidies from the government you cant´t say that you want to axe all of these subsidies without losing votes. If you want to reduce the subsidies to a substantial extent it is perhaps easier to reduce the excessive supply of labour and thereby increase wages. More savings and less consumption also makes people less dependent on subsidies. Death tax and capital gains taxes do not encourage more saving. But increased sales taxes may make people more inclined to save money. Legislation that forces producers to make more durable goods so that people don´t have to buy new cars and new refrigerators as frequently as now makes it easier for people to save money and become less dependent on the government. Negative real interest rates do not encourage people to save money.
The more people that get dependent on subsidies, the harder it is to reduce the subsidies. But most politicians and pundits who say they want to reduce the subsidies do not suggest a realistic strategy for accomplishing this goal. Poor people will vote for the politicians that give them subsidies. So you got to reduce the number of poor people. Or revoke their right to vote.
Another trade war and another war.. Profit of the oligarchy. No checks and balances probably never was.... This is what the information revolution is all about.... good old open source journalism... Now football, flags, fly overs sell tickets to "sweet Caroline" or Catch, Referee,fixed markets, FIFA, fixed sports, drug abuse, prison profit legal complex.
USA USA USA TAX is theft that simple.
http://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/scotus/
CHECKS AND BALANCES? Carlin had it about right Then again the 247 FED private banks getting 6% with Libor, bond rates.... fixed No checks and balances probably never was.... Freedom is Resistance
If the Oligarchy owns the country by creating debt for government spend and wealth for themselves, the best way to cut their nuts is to make the bubble burst.
By the looks of it Saud is doing just that by destroying the price of oil; all the while the lack of inflation brings on the financial deflationary collapse.
It may be that the China US war, now forseen by PCR, will eloign itslef if the financial crisis makes MIC bankrupt before they can start the shooting war in Asia.
It happened to USSR it could happen to USA if the Sauds destablilize the Reserve before next election.
Lets see how this plays out but the Shale + Hi-tech bubble could accelerate the fall of the house of cards.
Hello.......Ollie...........is that you?
The Dark Ages were quite democratic -- most of the barbarian tribes elected their chieftains on a scale similar to that of a state governorship and most chieftains exercised powers roughly equal to those of a governor or President in our democracy. That is, they were executives with wide perogatives and much latitude, but ultimately answerable to law and the combined political power of their top underlings. Only in their case, severe malfeasance or failure in office was punishable by death.
The FEUDAL era, which is when the comparison to oligarchy is most appropriate, was not democratic at all. It was, however, MUCH better-regulated than modern capitalism. Powers of kings, nobles, and Church acted as effective checks and balances, and excessive expansion in any area was chopped off by prompt feedback loops. Meanwhile although life was in general short, the serfs were able to pay for both rent and taxes with three ten-hour days of labor per week, leaving three days to feed themselves and take care of their homes and families, and one day dedicated to relaxation and entertainment. Modern-day wage-slaves should take note that in addition, said serfs were covered by cradle-to-grave welfare provisions to the extent their society's total wealth and technology allowed.
On the downside, profit as profit, rather than fee-for-services, was considered blasphemy. And lending money at interest was a capital crime, to the point that famous "alchemist" Nicholas Flaumel was safer pretending to have gotten his riches by summoning demons, than by money-lending. Oh, and false advertising and consumer fraud were usually capital crimes, too. Such a harsh and unpleasant world, the Middle Ages!
Senator Cruz campaign contributions are an open record that the author didnt' think necessary to post or link for some curious reason. If any candidate is in the big for the billionaires is Hillary the Rodan and Jeb. Cruz's small contribution base is far higher than Jebs.
https://www.opensecrets.org/pres16/candidate.php?id=N00033085
GOP candidates, especially those supported by the RNC, have lost much of their pervious contributions from the rank and file over the past 5 or so years. Why? Because the rank and file despise the lying collaborationist aspects of the GOProgs.
Select data type:
Contributor Total Woodforest National Bank $75,200 Morgan Lewis LLP $68,850 Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher $52,950 Pachulski, Stang et al $41,000 Jennmar Corp $40,850 Redman Management $37,800 Ashford Hospitality Trust $35,000 Saulsbury Industries $34,400 Teligistics Inc $28,300 Avalon Advisors $27,500 Goldman Sachs $27,350 RIDA Development $27,000 Murray Energy $25,670 Cooper & Kirk $24,600 Baker & McKenzie $22,600 Make DC Listen $21,806 Mjb Medical Supplies $21,600 Gene By Gene $21,600 Surge Ventures $21,600 De Groote Financial $21,600 Cinemark USA $21,600 Vince Young Steakhouse $21,600 Now Specialties $21,600 McCombs Enterprises $21,600 JW Childs Assoc $21,600 Burgaflex $21,600 Triple-S Steel Holdings $21,600Federal data State data
This table lists the top donors to this candidate in the 2016 cycle. The money came from the organizations' PACs; their individual members, employees or owners; and those individuals' immediate families. At the federal level, the organizations themselves did not donate, as they are prohibited by law from doing so. Organization totals include subsidiaries and affiliates.
Why (and How) We Use Donors' Employer/Occupation Information
NOTE: Federal-level numbers are for the 2016 election cycle and based on Federal Election Commission data released electronically on Tuesday, July 21, 2015.
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Election outcomes
are determined by counting votes of the proletariat hordes,
which are bought with entitlement programs,
NOW MORE THAN 60% OF GOVERNMENT SPENDING
**** NOT ****
by amount of money donated to election campaigns.
WAKE UP STUPID SHIT-FOR-BRAINS SOCIALIST COLLECTIVIST VERMIN SCUM !!!!!!