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Monday, April 18, 2011

Blue Dog Dem Leaders and ALEC PAC Money

Tonight when I was driving home from work they were talking about the “Blue Dog Democrats” on the radio.  I couldn’t help wonder, Who are these people?

So I went looking for them and I found this

  Rep. Heath Shuler; Co-Chair, Administration
  Rep. John Barrow; Co-Chair, Policy
  Rep. Mike Ross; Co-Chair, Communications
  Rep. Dan Boren: Co-Chair, Whip
  Rep. Dennis Cardoza
  Rep. Jim Matheson


Checked my handy-dandy ALEC list of US Congressman who are ALEC “Alumni”  (educated by Koch) and only found one of  them on that list.  Then I did a web search to see if any of the others were ALEC members – couldn’t find anything.

Then I thought – I’ve got one more list I can look at.  Awhile ago I went to http://www.congress.org/   and pulled the PAC money for 5 of the companies on ALEC’s Private Enterprise Board.
I pulled donations
   from the ALEC member PAC’s
   to candidates of more than $4,999,
   for the three election cycles of 2005 – 2010. 
My spreadsheet just with 5 companies and donations of over $4,999 is over 2000 rows long. 

(I apologize – my research is incomplete, as I have not gone to the candidates page to see if they returned any of this money – someone else can do that.)

And off of my handy dandy little spreadsheet here’s what I have
for the “Blue Dog Coalition Leaders”.

Dennis Cardoza
$5,000          2005-2006           AT&T              
$10,000        2007-2008           AT&T              
$6,500          2009-2010           AT&T            $21,500

Heath Schuler
$8,000         2007-2008           AT&T            
$10,250       2007-2008           Pfizer           
$10,000       2007-2008           Wal-Mart      
$10,000       2009-2010           AT&T            
$5,000         2009-2010           Wal-Mart       $43,250

John Barrow
$5,000          2005-2006           AT&T              
$8,500          2005-2006           Wal-Mart        
$11,000        2007-2008           AT&T              
$5,000          2007-2008           Koch              
$7,750          2007-2008           Pfizer             
$6,000          2007-2008           UPS                
$10,000        2007-2008           Wal-Mart        
$10,000        2009-2010           AT&T              
$7,627          2009-2010           Pfizer             
$6,500          2009-2010           UPS                
$7,500          2009-2010           Wal-Mart        $84,877

Mike Ross
$10,000        2005-2006           Wal-Mart      
$10,000        2005-2006           Wal-Mart      
$9,000          2007-2008           AT&T            
$9,000          2007-2008           AT&T            
$7,000          2007-2008           UPS              
$7,000          2007-2008           UPS              
$6,000          2007-2008           Wal-Mart      
$6,000          2007-2008           Wal-Mart      
$10,000        2009-2010           AT&T            
$10,000        2009-2010           AT&T            
$10,000        2009-2010           Koch            
$10,000        2009-2010           Koch            
$7,500          2009-2010           Wal-Mart      
$7,500          2009-2010           Wal-Mart       $119,000

Dan Boren – ALEC Alumni
$9,000          2005-2006           AT&T              
$5,000          2005-2006           Koch              
$6,000          2005-2006           UPS                
$6,500          2007-2008           AT&T              
$10,000        2007-2008           Koch              
$10,000        2007-2008           UPS                
$10,000        2007-2008           Wal-Mart        
$10,000        2009-2010           AT&T              
$8,500          2009-2010           Koch              
$6,500          2009-2010           UPS                
$10,000        2009-2010           Wal-Mart        $91,500

Jim Matheson (aka James Matheson, James David Matheson)
(this guy walks like a duck, talks like a duck, smells like a duck -
if you know what I mean, but I can't prove it)
$14,000        2005-2006           Koch              
$14,000        2005-2006           Koch              
$14,000        2005-2006           Koch              
$10,500        2005-2006           Pfizer             
$10,500        2005-2006           Pfizer             
$10,500        2005-2006           Pfizer             
$10,500        2005-2006           UPS                
$10,500        2005-2006           UPS                
$10,500        2005-2006           UPS                
$10,000        2005-2006           Wal-Mart        
$10,000        2005-2006           Wal-Mart        
$10,000        2005-2006           Wal-Mart        
$10,000        2007-2008           AT&T              
$10,000        2007-2008           AT&T              
$10,000        2007-2008           AT&T              
$10,000        2007-2008           Koch              
$10,000        2007-2008           Koch              
$10,000        2007-2008           Koch              
$10,252        2007-2008           Pfizer             
$10,252        2007-2008           Pfizer             
$10,252        2007-2008           Pfizer             
$10,000        2007-2008           UPS                
$10,000        2007-2008           UPS                
$10,000        2007-2008           UPS                
$8,000          2007-2008           Wal-Mart        
$8,000          2007-2008           Wal-Mart        
$8,000          2007-2008           Wal-Mart        
$10,000        2009-2010           AT&T              
$10,000        2009-2010           AT&T              
$10,000        2009-2010           AT&T              
$9,000          2009-2010           Pfizer             
$9,000          2009-2010           Pfizer             
$9,000          2009-2010           Pfizer             
$10,000        2009-2010           UPS                
$10,000        2009-2010           UPS                
$10,000        2009-2010           UPS                
$8,000          2009-2010           Wal-Mart        
$8,000          2009-2010           Wal-Mart        
$8,000          2009-2010           Wal-Mart       $390,756


Oh, my…………………………..

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