Showing posts with label economy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label economy. Show all posts

Thursday, October 9, 2008

Thought this was interesting...what do you think?

Top 10 Corporate PAC Contributors:

Obama:
Goldman Sachs $739,521

UBS AG $419,550

Lehman Brothers $391,774

Citigroup Inc $492,548

Morgan Stanley $341,380

Latham & Watkins $328,879

Google Inc $487,355

JPMorgan Chase & Co $475,112

Sidley Austin LLP $370,916

Skadden, Arps et al $360,409

McCain:
Merrill Lynch $349,170

Citigroup Inc $287,801

Morgan Stanley $249,377

Wachovia Corp $147,456

Goldman Sachs $220,045

Lehman Brothers $115,707

Bear Stearns $108,000

JPMorgan Chase & Co $206,392

Bank of America $133,975

Credit Suisse Group $175,503

~The Center for Responsive Politics


A bit of who owns whom? Tweedledee or Tweedledum?

I like what a guy said in the comments section of the blog that posted these numbers: "I miss the good old days when special interest groups secretly bribed candidates....now its public knowledge...."

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