DNC Out of Cash Already?

[Conan71]

what ban? I must be missing something.

Big companies make big mistakes...and so it will be this year placing the wrong bets at stockholder expense.

I really get a kick out of watching you people root for oligarchs and the plutocracy.

Democrats have touted a ban on corporate donations to the Democratic National Convention coming to Charlotte in September. But local convention organizers have a special fund, known as New American City Inc., that accepts contributions from the likes of Wells Fargo & Co.    , Bank of America    Corp. and Duke Energy Corp., The Wall Street Journal reports.

The $10 million organizers hope to collect with the fund will cover salaries for convention workers, entertainment for delegates and activities outside the convention itself.

http://www.bizjournals.com/charlotte/blog/morning-edition/2012/05/democrats-fund-takes-corporate.html

Frackers and banksters, eh?

[Teatownclown]

Frackers and banksters, eh?

Harold Ham(ster) is RMoney's energy expert....a real truck driving creep bent on ruining the environment to help himself get from 11 billion to over 50 in net worth. He  like so many others lined up to "help" the GOP will be targeted for their lack of morals and integrity as well as their attempts to ruin the middle class. I love it!

[Gaspar]

This is a list of the 2008 republican National Convention donors...

3M Company
AARP
Abbott Laboratories
Aflac
American Health Care Association
Allianz
Allstate Insurance Company
American Wind Energy Association
Ameriprise Financial, Inc.
Amgen
Anheuser-Busch
ADM
Astellas Pharma US, Inc.
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP
AT&T
Best Buy Co., Inc.
Boston Scientific Corporation
Broadhead + Co.
Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation
Cargill Incorporated
Carlson
CH2MHill Companies, Ltd.
Chesapeake Energy Corporation
C.H. Robinson Worldwide, Inc.
CHS Inc.
Cisco Systems, Inc.
CoBank
The Coca-Cola Company
Comcast
Ecolab Inc.
Edison Electric Institute
Eli Lilly and Company
Fagen, Inc.
Federated Insurance Companies
Fed Ex
First Data
Flint Hills Resources, LP
Ford Motor Company
Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc
Georgia-Pacific
General Mills, Inc.
Google Inc.
Great River Energy
Hewlett-Packard Company
Hubbard Broadcasting, Inc.
INVISTA
Koch Industries, Inc.
Kraft Foods
Kraus-Anderson Companies, Inc.
Land O'Lakes, Inc.
Liberty Media Corporation
Lockheed Martin Corporation
M Design Interactive, Inc.
Mall of America
McAfee, Inc.
Medtronic, Inc.
Merck & Co., Inc.
Microsoft Corporation
Monster Worldwide, Inc.
The Mosaic Company
National Association of Home Builders
National Center for Assisted Living
Northwest Airlines
Office Depot
Pentair, Inc.
PepsiCo, Inc.
Pfizer
PhRMA
Pitney Bowes Inc.
Polaris Industries Inc.
Property Casualty Insurers Association of America
Prudential Financial, Inc.
Qwest
Securian Financial Group, Inc.
Service Employees International Union, CTW, CLC
St. Jude Medical, Inc.
Starz Entertainment, LLC
State Farm Insurance
SUPERVALU INC.
Target
Thrivent Financial for Lutherans
The Travelers Companies, Inc.
UBS
UnitedHealth Group
UPS
U.S. Bank
Verizon Wireless
Visa Inc.
Walgreen Company
Waste Management, Inc.
Wells Fargo & Company
West
Xcel Energy Inc.
Xerox Corporation

. . .and here's the DNC top contributor list:

Microsoft Corp
$380,104
Goldman Sachs
$347,374
Time Warner
$334,485
Nix, Patterson & Roach
$318,800
Skadden, Arps et al
$302,287
Google Inc
$292,836
Susman Godfrey Llp
$263,600
Comcast Corp
$253,304
Harvard University
$230,909
Capital Group Companies
$210,250
Latham & Watkins
$204,724
Milbank, Tweed et al
$200,550
Rosen Partners
$184,800
Legalzoom.Com
$184,800
Chopper Trading
$183,075
US Dept of State
$172,113
UBS AG
$167,300
DLA Piper
$166,900
Estee Lauder Companies
$165,000
National Amusements Inc
$161,845

Here are the top contributors to the Democrat party in general:
Nancy Pelosi for Congress
$778,255
Hoyer for Congress
$749,380
Dan 10
$650,544
Microsoft Corp
$526,614
Comcast Corp
$520,448
Time Warner
$469,182
Akin, Gump et al
$456,339
Becerra for Congress
$455,000
Goldman Sachs
$413,374
Friends of Kent Conrad
$398,000
Susman Godfrey Llp
$369,254
Google Inc
$360,576
John Kerry for Senate
$355,000
Weitz & Luxenberg
$349,200
Durbin for Congress Cmte
$335,000
Larson for Congress
$330,000
Harvard University
$328,835
Skadden, Arps et al
$319,423
Nix, Patterson & Roach
$318,800
Allyson Schwartz for Congress
$307,500

[Conan71]

This is a list of the 2008 republican National Convention donors...

At least we know the donors by name.  The donors to the 2008 Democrat convention in Denver seems to be shrouded in secrecy behind PACs:

Democrats use Denver convention to stroke big donors.
By Lynn Sweet on July 7, 2008 4:26 PM | 2 Comments
PDF's of donor packages from the Democratic National Committee, DSCC and DCCC at end of column....

Since the column below ran in the print Chicago Sun-Times on Monday, the Obama campaign announced that 10 low dollar donors--$5 or more--who donate between Monday and July 31 will be flown to Denver and treated to two days and nights at the convention--with a guest. They will be able to meet Obama backstage and watch his acceptence speech in a 75,000-seat stadium. But that effort for 10--get that only 10--contributors from the more than a million small Obama campaign donors---pales in comparison to the large operation in place to stroke the big dollar fund-raisers who provide the bulk of campaign money for the Obama campaign and other Democratic candidates.

WASHINGTON -- For top Democratic donors, the convention at the Pepsi Center in Denver in August means access to hard-to-get credentials, VIP parties, special briefings, concierge service and coveted rooms in the city's top hotels.

While presumptive Democratic nominee Barack Obama likes storylines to focus on micro donors, the Democratic apparatus he sits on top of is dependent on big fund-raisers who can deliver -- and in turn want to be treated well at the convention. Obama's campaign finance operation will be running a VIP convention operation, with at least 300 rooms in the best hotels in Denver set aside for its very top bundlers.

The donors have to pay their way to Denver and the hotel tab.

The Republicans will also be using their convention, in Minneapolis-St. Paul in September, to reward their best donors. Both parties for years have put together donor "packages," with what you get dependent on what you give or raise.

Obama will not accept donations from federal lobbyists or political action committees, and once he became the all-but-certain nominee and took control of the Democratic National Committee, he extended the ban to the DNC. But the other party committees -- the House and Senate political operations -- have no such ban.

Each Democratic political operation has put together donor packages.

The top level of givers to the DNC, who contributed $110,400 or raised $200,000 between Feb. 1, 2005, and June 15, get "preferred booking" at one of the premier hotels in Denver and VIP credentials to all convention proceedings, and passes to donor lounges, parties and other events.

The DNC was also running a VIP program for PACs that contributed at least $60,000 during that period. That was to get a reservation to a hotel room at a donor hotel, credentials to the convention floor, and invites to selected other finance events. I don't know how the DNC will make good on the PAC packages in the wake of the PAC ban.

The DNC also has a "Chairman's Club" with perks for smaller players, people who have contributed $57,000 or raised $100,000 from Jan. 1, 2007, through June 15. This will get a hotel room, floor credentials, invites to selected events and the finance lounges at the Pepsi Center.

The lowest level is the DNC "Rocky Mountain" program for $28,500 donors to the party in 2008. That gets you -- maybe, based on availability -- a hotel room, credentials and some finance events.

Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee elite donors --who contributed or raised $100,000 in personal funds in 2008 -- get to be in the "Pelosi 100" program, entitled to a "preferred" hotel room, four credentials for Pepsi Center proceedings, access to hospitality rooms and skyboxes at the Pepsi Center, four tickets to an event honoring House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), and separate events honoring House leaders, female House members, VIP briefings and -- get this -- the services of a "DCCC concierge."

The DCCC scales back the perk packages depending on the giving level: A $28,500 donor this year gets a room reservation and just two credentials and invites to special events. An "upgrade" is available if a person gives or raises $10,000 to Democratic House candidates on the DCCC "red to blue" list, the most competitive races. The cheapest way to get a credential for Denver is to give or raise $7,500 to the DCCC, which will get you a seat on the floor, but no swell parties.

The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee set the highest bar for entry into its elite priority convention network, with a person having to donate or raise $200,000 between Jan. 1, 2007, and June 30. But in a note Tom Lopach, the DSCC national finance director sent to fund-raisers, he said "additional consideration will be given to those who raise above and beyond'' the different package price tags.

http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2008/07/democrats_use_denver_conventio.html

"I gave $100,000 to the 2008 Democrat convention and all I got was a lousy reception with Nancy Pelosi".


Oh, wait, here's the top five donors to the 2008 convention, nice of the unions to spread their member's hard earned money around. Hasn't bought them much influence in the Obama years, now has it?

Cisco — $1.7 million
Laborers' International Union — $1.6 million
Lincy Foundation — $1.5 million (the foundation is owned by the largest private shareholder in Ford)
Service Employees International Union — $1.35 million
National Education Association — $1.2 million

http://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2008/12/12/top-5-donors-to-the-2008-democratic-convention

And more:

The slew of corporate sponsors of the Democratic National Convention include United Airlines, Google, Coors Brewing Company, Anheuser-Busch, Xcel Energy and telecom giants Motorola, Qwest and -- a brand you'll see plastered all over the place in Denver -- AT&T.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/sleuth/2008/07/_besides_obsessing_over_the.html

Still not sure of the point behind the Repugnican convention donors, but there you go.

[Gaspar]

The amazing part is President Obama's bundlers for this election so far.


1/4 of them are lobbyists and various legal interests.

Here are the biggies.  Some interesting names here.

Name   City   State   Employer   Contributions*
Katzenberg, Jeffrey   Los Angeles   CA   DreamWorks Animation   $2,064,292
Hobson and Rogers, Jr., Mellody and John   Chicago   IL   Ariel Capital Management   $1,510,889
Jordan, Wayne   Oakland   CA   Jordan Real Estate Investments   $1,457,453
Snyder, Jay   New York   NY   HBJ Investments   $1,400,037
Sacks, Michael   Winnetka   IL   Grosvenor Capital Management   $1,238,281
Bainum, Stewart   Fulton   MD   Choice Hotels International   $1,236,465
Eychaner, Fred   Chicago   IL   Newsweb Corp   $1,220,550
Stetson, Jane   Norwich   VT   Democratic National Cmte   $1,122,826
Cohen, David and Rhonda   Philadelphia   PA   Comcast Corp   $1,120,681
Pohlad, Robert   Edina   MN   Pohlad Companies   $1,004,277
Effron, Blair   New York   NY   Centerview Partners   $998,787
Aberly, Naomi   Dallas   TX   TIFF Advisory Services   $975,343
Patterson, Cary   Texarkana   TX   Nix, Patterson & Roach   $952,383
Mailer Anderson and Miner, Robert and Nicola   San Francisco   CA   Writer/Quotidian Gallery Corp   $911,700
Corzine, Jon   Hoboken   NJ   MF Global   $897,232
Barzun, Matthew   Louisville   KY   Brickpath LLC   $897,042
Rosen, Jack   New York   NY   Rosen Partners   $895,180
Kovner, Sarah   New York   NY   Consultant   $865,996
Connors, Eileen and Jack   Boston   MA   Hill Holliday   $832,642
Monks, Bonnie   Cape Elizabeth   ME   Retired   $800,700
Kempner, Michael   East Rutherford   NJ   MWW Group   $784,319
Weinstein, Harvey   New York   NY   Weinstein Co   $752,625
Gilbert, Mark and Nancy   Boca Raton   FL   Barclays Capital   $726,774
Bonnie, Shelby   San Francisco   CA   Whiskey Media   $704,542
Morgan, John   Lake Mary   FL   Morgan & Morgan   $672,850
Gill and Miller, Tim and Scott   Denver   CO   Gill Foundation/UBS AG   $672,800
Clark, Bob   St. Louis   MO   Clayco Construction   $667,952
Rudy, Kirk   Austin   TX   Endeavor Real Estate   $665,591
Kramer, Orin   New York   NY   Boston Provident   $656,230
Randlett, Wade and Lorna   San Francisco   CA   Nextfuels Inc   $634,276
Schuster, Elaine   Chestnut Hill   MA   Philanthropist   $622,898
Tobias, Andrew   Miami   FL   Democratic National Cmte   $608,211
LeVine, Suzi   Seattle   WA   Microsoft Corp   $574,258
Fernando, Rajiv   Chicago   IL   Chopper Trading   $565,050
Hartley, Jane   New York   NY   Observatory Group   $519,742
Wolf, Robert   Purchase   NY   UBS AG   $500,872
Kireker, Charlie and Marie   Weybridge   VT   Twin Birches   $492,895
Bell, Colleen   Los Angeles   CA   Bell-Phillip TV Productions   $460,500
Ricketts, Laura   Chicago   IL   Ecotravel LLC   $456,631
Benioff, Marc   San Francisco   CA   Salesforce.Com   $451,980
Heyman, Vicki and Bruce   Chicago   IL   Goldman Sachs   $450,817
Green, Steven   Miami Beach   FL   Greenstreet Partners   $444,200
Korge, Chris   Miami   FL   Korge & Korge   $432,700
White, Frank   Washington   DC   Retired   $410,378
Berger, Mitchell   Parkland   FL   Berger Singerman PA   $386,421
Lassiter, Mai   Los Angeles   CA   Overbrook Entertainment   $350,837
Falk, Joseph   Miami   FL   Akerman, Senterfitt & Eidson   $344,159
Broas, Tim   Washington   DC   Winston & Strawn   $332,987

[Townsend]

The amazing part is President Obama's bundlers for this election so far.


Here are the biggies.  Some interesting names here.

Which ones are interesting to you?

[Townsend]

The amazing part is President Obama's bundlers for this election so far.

1/4 of them are lobbyists and various legal interests.

So if you consider 25% of them to be "lobbyists and various legal interests" what's the percentage on the GOP side?

[Conan71]

Doesn't look like Obama is getting any love from the Hollywood Thomasons like the Clintons did.

[Gaspar]

Which ones are interesting to you?

Corzine, Jon   Hoboken   NJ   MF Global   $897,232

Isn't he still looking for like a billion dollars that fell out of his wallet or something?

[Townsend]

Corzine, Jon   Hoboken   NJ   MF Global   $897,232

Isn't he still looking for like a billion dollars that fell out of his wallet or something?

So that guy.

[Hoss]

So that guy.

That made me LOL.

[Teatownclown]

Corzine, Jon   Hoboken   NJ   MF Global   $897,232

Isn't he still looking for like a billion dollars that fell out of his wallet or something?

You flies know how to find the sh!t....

This election will end up being about the oligarchs attempting to buy votes....and failing to do that and failing to disenfranchise old people, poor people, and working people.

Landslide's approaching.

[Teatownclown]

I often fall back on my theory that SCOTUS purposely wrote Citizen's United to inspire and motivate Congress to write strong and decisive political contribution law. Then I remember there's Thomas, Scalia, and Alito and they aren't that smart collectively...besides, Congress can't be inspired nor can they be motivated. Along with the fact that most probably can't write, this attempt to buy our government will live on for many years to come.

"It's doom alone that counts!" B.D.

[Conan71]

...and failing to disenfranchise old people, poor people, and working people.

New code-speak for ballot box stuffing?

[Gaspar]

New code-speak for ballot box stuffing?

I wonder if Ohio's "Get-Out-The-Vote-To-Dead-People" program will be up and running this election?