The Form 6 forty-eight hour campaign contribution reports filed by federal candidates with the Federal Election Commission always make for interesting reading. Sometimes there are fascinating distinctions between the donor bases for the candidates.
First, a few recent reports from the campaign of Tommy Sowers (D), the challenger in the 8th Congressional District race:
Committee: TOMMY SOWERS FOR CONGRESS
Tavy Dumont
San Jose, California
Employer: self-employed
Occupation: attorney
Date Contributed = 10/22/2010
Amount Contributed = 1000.00
David Oliver
Arlington, Virginia
Employer: EADS North American
Occupation: Executive
Date Contributed = 10/22/2010
Amount Contributed = 1000.00
Total Itemized Contributions = [$]2000.00
[emphasis added]
There are additional smilar reports in the past week from the Sowers campaign:
Committee: TOMMY SOWERS FOR CONGRESS
Thomas Bradley
Sikeston, Missouri
Employer: New Madrid County
Occupation: Treasurer
Date Contributed = 10/20/2010
Amount Contributed = 1000.00
Jeffrey Cunard
Washington, DC
Employer: Debevoise & Plimpton LLP
Occupation: Attorney
Date Contributed = 10/20/2010
Amount Contributed = 2400.00
Becky Draper
San Francisco, California
Employer: Self Employed
Occupation: Investments
Date Contributed = 10/19/2010
Amount Contributed = 1000.00
John Woollam
Lincoln, Nebraska
Employer: University of NE – LIncoln
Occupation: Professor
Date Contributed = 10/20/2010
Amount Contributed = 1000.00
Total Itemized Contributions = [$]5400.00
[emphasis added]
Committee: TOMMY SOWERS FOR CONGRESS
Theodore Roosevelt, IV
Brooklyn, New York
Employer: Barclays Capital
Occupation: Managing Director
Date Contributed = 10/18/2010
Amount Contributed = 1000.00
Kevin Wall
Los Angeles, California
Employer: Control Room
Occupation: Chief Executive Officer
Date Contributed = 10/18/2010
Amount Contributed = 2400.00
Total Itemized Contributions = [$]3400.00
[emphasis added]
That Theodore Roosevel, IV:?
Theodore Roosevelt IV Opts Out of G.O.P. Race for Senate
By DAVID M. HALBFINGER
Published: November 24, 2009
Few people knew that he was thinking about it in the first place, but Theodore Roosevelt IV, a wealthy investment banker with serious credentials on environmental issues and in foreign policy – and of course, that famous name – now says he will not seek the Republican nomination for the Senate from New York in 2010.
Mr. Roosevelt, the great-grandson of the 26th president, worked at Lehman Brothers and is now a managing director at Barclays Capital. He said he began studying a run against Senator Kirsten E. Gillibrand, a Democrat, over the summer and was encouraged by talks with Republicans including former Gov. George E. Pataki, Representative Cynthia M. Lummis of Wyoming and Senator John Cornyn of Texas, the chairman of the party’s senatorial campaign committee.
Calling himself a “liberal Republican,” Mr. Roosevelt, 66, a former chairman of the League of Conservation Voters who lives in Brooklyn Heights, spoke harshly on Tuesday about the party’s conservative national leadership and lamented that the state Republican organization was a “series of fiefdoms,” though he said he was confident that he could have won the nomination…
Uh, yep.
Committee: TOMMY SOWERS FOR CONGRESS
Ken Maddox
Clarkton, Missouri
Employer: The MACO Companies
Occupation: Chief Executive Officer
Date Contributed = 10/14/2010
Amount Contributed = 1597.30
Jenny Tomkins
Sycamore, Illinois 601788808
Employer: Self Employed
Occupation: Inn Keeper
Date Contributed = 10/14/2010
Amount Contributed = 1000.00
Total Itemized Contributions = [$]2597.30
[emphasis added]
Committee: TOMMY SOWERS FOR CONGRESS
Morris Ostin
Encino, California
Employer: Warner Bros
Occupation: Chairman
Date Contributed = 10/15/2010
Amount Contributed = 1000.00
Maureen Pettibone Ryan
San Jose, California
Employer: Quinn Emanuel
Occupation: Attorney
Date Contributed = 10/15/2010
Amount Contributed = 1500.00
Joan Weatherly Ragsdell
Columbia, Missouri
Employer: N/A
Occupation: Retired
Date Contributed = 10/15/2010
Amount Contributed = 1000.00
Total Itemized Contributions = [$]3500.00
[emphasis added]
Jo Ann Emerson (r), the incumbent, has a distinctly different donor base:
Committee: TEAM EMERSON FOR JO ANN EMERSON
Wayne Gott
Salem, Missouri
Employer: Town & Country Corp.
Occupation: Vice Chairman
Date Contributed = 10/23/2010
Amount Contributed = 2400.00
Total Itemized Contributions = [$]2400.00
[emphasis added]
Committee: TEAM EMERSON FOR JO ANN EMERSON
Diane Franco
New Orleans, Louisiana
Employer: none
Occupation: Homemaker
Date Contributed = 10/21/2010
Amount Contributed = 2400.00
Laura Law
Cape Girardeau, Missouri
Employer: homemaker
Occupation: Homemaker
Date Contributed = 10/22/2010
Amount Contributed = 1000.00
National Telecommunications Coop Assoc.
Telecommunications Education Com.
Arlington, Virginia
Date Contributed = 10/21/2010
Amount Contributed = 3000.00
NEMPAC
National Emergency Medicine PAC
Washington, DC
Occupation: Manager
Date Contributed = 10/21/2010
Amount Contributed = 1500.00
Total Itemized Contributions = [$]7900.00
[emphasis added]
PACs. It’s also interesting to see individuals show up from other locales who appear to be “go to” contributors for republican candidates across the country.
Committee: TEAM EMERSON FOR JO ANN EMERSON
American Sugar Cane League PAC
Thibodaux, Louisiana
Date Contributed = 10/20/2010
Amount Contributed = 1000.00
DRS Technologies – Good Gov. Fund
Parsippany, New Jersey
Date Contributed = 10/20/2010
Amount Contributed = 3000.00
John Johnson
Nashville, Tennessee
Employer: Mid South Wire Company
Occupation: President
Date Contributed = 10/19/2010
Amount Contributed = 1000.00
William McCoy
Springfield, Missouri
Employer: Xaxax Analytics
Occupation: Principal
Date Contributed = 10/19/2010
Amount Contributed = 1000.00
Steve Obermann
Cape Girardeau, Missouri
Employer: SEMO Ready Mix
Occupation: President
Date Contributed = 10/20/2010
Amount Contributed = 1000.00
Total Itemized Contributions = 7000.00
[emphasis added]
PACs.
Committee: TEAM EMERSON FOR JO ANN EMERSON
AT&T PAC
Washington, DC
Date Contributed = 10/15/2010
Amount Contributed = 3000.00
Bryan Cave Political Fund PAC
Washington, DC
Date Contributed = 10/15/2010
Amount Contributed = 1000.00
Cargill PAC
Washington, DC
Occupation: Chairman
Date Contributed = 10/15/2010
Amount Contributed = 1000.00
Charter Communications, Inc. PAC
Washington, DC
Date Contributed = 10/15/2010
Amount Contributed = 2000.00
Edward Jones PAC
Saint Louis, Missouri
Date Contributed = 10/15/2010
Amount Contributed = 2000.00
FLUOR Corporation PAC
Washington, DC
Employer: FLUOR PAC
Occupation: Sr. VP Government Relations
Date Contributed = 10/15/2010
Amount Contributed = 1000.00
Great Lakes Sugarbeet Growers PAC
Bay City, Michigan
Date Contributed = 10/15/2010
Amount Contributed = 1000.00
Theodore Kettlewell
Columbia, Missouri
Employer: OCCI, Inc.
Occupation: Executive Vice President
Date Contributed = 10/15/2010
Amount Contributed = 1000.00
R.o. Maly
Columbia, Missouri
Employer: self
Occupation: Developer
Date Contributed = 10/15/2010
Amount Contributed = 1000.00
Tatum Martin
Boonville, Missouri
Employer: Information Requested
Occupation: Information Requested
Date Contributed = 10/15/2010
Amount Contributed = 1000.00
National Active and Retired Federal
Employees Association – NARFE
Alexandria, Virginia
Date Contributed = 10/15/2010
Amount Contributed = 2000.00
The National Postal Mail Handlers
c/o Laborers Political League
Washington, DC
Date Contributed = 10/15/2010
Amount Contributed = 2500.00
Jason VanEaton
Columbia, Missouri
Employer: Spectrum Consulting
Occupation: Consultant
Date Contributed = 10/15/2010
Amount Contributed = 1000.00
Total Itemized Contributions = [$]19500.00
[emphasis added]
PACs.
It’s their world, the rest of us only get to live in it.
