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join:2001-09-27
Dayton, OH | reply to smalfish
Re: microsoft= said by smalfish:
big contributor to the current administration
What basis in fact does this have?
Microsoft donates more money to Democratic Party House candidates than GOP candidates.
Microsoft donates more money to GOP Senate candidates than Democrats. This sum would be equal if it wasn't for their $10,000 donation to John McCain.
Microsoft is the #11 donor to President Bush's re-elect fund. Rather, Microsoft did not donate, rather the money came from the organization's PAC, its individual members or employees or owners, and those individuals' immediate families.
Where does the President's money come from?
Merrill Lynch $368,200
UBS Americas $269,000
Credit Suisse First Boston $212,050
PricewaterhouseCoopers $209,800
Lehman Brothers $199,500
Goldman Sachs $198,725
MBNA Corp $194,500
Blank Rome LLP $192,900
Bear Stearns $165,000
Union Pacific Corp $161,500
Microsoft Corp $159,750
Interestingly Microsoft is the #3 source for Howard Dean.
Contrast tthis to John Edwards, who has 18 of 20 top donors in the trial lawyer arena.
John Kerry:
Skadden, Arps et al $97,650
Citigroup Inc $70,200
Piper Rudnick $68,250
Mintz, Levin et al $63,300
Goldman Sachs $62,500
Robins, Kaplan et al $62,250
Hill, Holliday et al $50,750
Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance $50,250
Harvard University $47,750
Morgan Stanley $39,500
Maybe Microsoft hasn't bought John Kerry.
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