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Actually, it's even more skewed: of the remaining 11:
6 are for Voinovich for Senate committee, a Republican campaign in Ohio.
1 is to the National Republican Congressional committe.
1 is to the CARE PAC, which seems to support republicans with their money.

There is one to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, and two to the Equipment Leasing Association Committee, which gives contributions to both Dems and Reps. Still, it's blindingly obvious which way Diebold leans.

Apparently the CEO of Diebold is a staunch Republican and contributed heavily to the Bush campaign.
As a Republican, I see these posts and usually think it's leftist crap. Low and behold I found this site It looks like a heck of alot donations to the good ole Republican party. I am sure Diebold greases the skids on both sides, but it does make you stop and think. After the ruckus in 2000 you think they would have learned.

That's pretty interesting, considering that the head of RIAA, the group that's been causing all of these problems so far, is a supporter and contributor to the Democrat party:

Check out this link:

right here

And type "Recording Industry" into the link. Guess what? It's Hilary Rosen contributing to Gephart's campaign, Kerry's campaign and the like.

Like it or not, this isn't a one party issue, and the party that the head of RIAA is with right now are the Democrats.

Check out:

this link

and type in Recording Industry

If you want to lay this at the feet of a particular political party, don't do it here, because you won't like what you find.

Way to guarantee only self-made millionaires will win elections there. If only the rich are allowed to spend more, only the rich will get elected.

The rich already are allowed to spend more. A candidate can already pour an unlimited amount of their own funds into their campaign. My proposal would give an incentive not to.

And how do they explain that one to the FEC? Are they a real bank in and of themselves? Did they subject themselves to a credit check? Is the interest you're giving yourself realistic?

I'm not kidding. Go browse through FEC reports online. The multi-millionaire candidates rarely give to their campaign. They loan it. Check out Jon Corzine's FEC Filings for example. Pop open any of the quarterlies and jump to the last few pages. You'll see loan after loan from Jon Corzine.

You go around and ask for donations for the sake of giving yourself more money to pay yourself back (with interest, even) and see how far you get. Especially after the election has come and gone.

You get quite far if you're elected. You likely won't make *all* of it up, but any contributions you get is effectively money going straight to your pocket. Your campaign becomes a money-laundering operation for legalized bribery.

Yes, I do.

And I most likely 'conveniently' overlooked money (bribes) from those companies, because they were 'conveniently' not the topic. It's all a giant conspiracy. John Katz is my gay lover.

If you want to look up contributions on any company or organization, you can also go here. But you could've also looked them up on the sites I originally linked. Apparently while I was conspiring to keep you from finding out about other companies and their contributions, I overlooked the fact that I was linking a search engine that can be used to find contributions of any company who's name you enter. Doh!

Damn Link. Just type in Microsoft.

Damn. Third time's a charm

Microsoft is behind the efforts to eliminate the cap on guest workers for high tech. It's a little ironic that Bill Gates, the richest man in the world, doesn't want to pay good salaries to Americans or retrain older workers. He's the man behind several Washington "think tanks" dedicated to attacking American workers, including the the ITAA (this site seems to be down this weekend, time to reboot the NT box). You can check out Microsoft political contributions to political candidates at http://www.traycom/fecinfo. Check out this link to see if Microsoft has bought your Congressman.

Microsoft is behind the efforts to eliminate the cap on guest workers for high tech. It's a little ironic that Bill Gates, the richest man in the world, doesn't want to pay good salaries to Americans or retrain older workers. He's the man behind several Washington "think tanks" dedicated to attacking American workers, including the the ITAA (this site seems to be down this weekend, time to reboot the NT box). You can check out Microsoft political contributions to political candidates at http://www.traycom/fecinfo. Check out this link to see if Microsoft has bought your Congressman.

For the record,McCain takes LOTS of money from Microsoft and supports Bill Gates Agenda!! http://www.tray.com/cgi-win/_ptoc.exe?S6AZ00019MCC AIN,$JOHN$S98

Why does McCain take so much high-tech special interest money and then say he's anti-special interest and pro-campaign finance reform. This guy creams his rival by raising 4.5 million bucks in the last Senate election (his opponent raised about 1/10th of that). This time, in the campaign for President, George W. Bush is ahead of the guy by 50 millions bucks and all of the sudden McCain is for campaign finance reform.
By the way, John McCain is the clown that wants to import more temporary guest workers in agriculture and high-tech. That's right, if you pick tomatoes or code in C++, McCain wants you to taste the competition of foreign guest workers !!! Of course if you are a policeman, manager, lawyer, teacher, then you won't have to compete with special forgeign guest workers. But then geeks and cotton pickers don't vote, so John doesn't care about 'em. Republicans picking winners and losers ? Why favor one sector of the economy over the other? Why create multiple-classes of workers? This is sick and anti-American !

John McCain, you are a fool and a hypocrite. You will say whatever it takes to get elected.

Not us individually, just the PACs and the big corporations - see here

Well ... not *all* drug information; it seems our "buddies" Diane and Orin get money from big tobacco. Check out the politcal action commitee's contributions to these two fine specimens of homo politicus: http://www.tray.com/cgi-win/_ptoc.exe?S0CA00199FEI NSTEIN,$DIANNE92 for Mrs. Feinsten's 1992 FEC report and http://www.tray.com/cgi-win/_ptoc.exe?S6UT00063HAT CH,$ORRIN$G94 for Mr. Hatch's 1994 FEC report. Yep, RJReynolds and Philip Morris love these guys enough to fund their midadventures. It seems you can take drug money with one hand wave a finger with the other.

Okay, now for blatant populist plug: why can't middle class Americans deduct $50 in contrubitions to a candidate off of top of ther taxes? Line 10 of the 1040 form (right after "total taxable income") should be a line 11 saying "If you made a contribution to a political candidate, subtract that amount up to $50". If individual $50 contributions became important again in American elections, perhaps we wouldn't have to listen to dangerous assaults on the First Amendment that we are now hearing from these two hypocrites.

Well ... not *all* drug information; it seems our "buddies" Diane and Orin get money from big tobacco. Check out the politcal action commitee's contributions to these two fine specimens of homo politicus: http://www.tray.com/cgi-win/_ptoc.exe?S0CA00199FEI NSTEIN,$DIANNE92 for Mrs. Feinsten's 1992 FEC report and http://www.tray.com/cgi-win/_ptoc.exe?S6UT00063HAT CH,$ORRIN$G94 for Mr. Hatch's 1994 FEC report. Yep, RJReynolds and Philip Morris love these guys enough to fund their midadventures. It seems you can take drug money with one hand wave a finger with the other.

Okay, now for blatant populist plug: why can't middle class Americans deduct $50 in contrubitions to a candidate off of top of ther taxes? Line 10 of the 1040 form (right after "total taxable income") should be a line 11 saying "If you made a contribution to a political candidate, subtract that amount up to $50". If individual $50 contributions became important again in American elections, perhaps we wouldn't have to listen to dangerous assaults on the First Amendment that we are now hearing from these two hypocrites.

According to http://www.tra y.com/cgi-win/_ptoc.exe?H2VA06115GOODLATTE,$ROBERT $W98 (as reported in a previous post), his tobacco contributors are ...

RJR POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE RJR NABISCO INC (RJR PAC)
[PAC/Qualified - (higher contrib limit)]
09/23/98 $500.00 contribution
04/24/97 $500.00 contribution
03/12/98 $1,000.00 contribution

PHILIP MORRIS COMPANIES INC POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (AKA PHIL-PAC)
[PAC/Qualified - (higher contrib limit)]
02/11/98 $1,000.00 contribution
09/21/98 $1,000.00 contribution

LORILLARD TOBACCO COMPANY PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE
[PAC/Qualified - (higher contrib limit)]
02/26/98 $500.00 contribution

This sounds like a good bill. Mr. Goodlatte is from Virginia and AOL is in Virginia. The anti-spam provision is a good thing (for AOL, and for most of us). But Mr. Goodlatte has also supported some really bad and unpopular legislation designed solely to benefit his corporate contributors. Some things scare me about Mr. Goodlatte. Please check out http://www.tray.com/cgi-win/_ptoc.exe?H2VA06115GOO DLATTE,$ROBERT$W98. This is the FEC report for Mr. Goodlatte. Please note carefully that Microsoft, the richest company in the world, is a big contributer to Mr. Goodlatte. I am very concerned that companies like Microsoft are turning otherwise good people into puppets who do what they are told. I think that Mr. Goodlatte can turn down the money from Microsoft and still be a good legislator. I just wish he would do it.

The MAN JUST DON'T GET IT !!!!

QUIT SCORING THIS -1, Please submit a comment if you disagree, I'll be glad to discuss it with you.

This thing previously got scored +1 ,then -1 so it must be good!

Bill Gates is a big contributor to Mr. Abraham, see http://www .tray.com/cgi-win/_ptoc.exe?S4MI00165ABRAHAM,$EDMO ND$SPENSER98
and search for "Microsoft".

Spencer Abraham is a dangerously ideological Senator, beholden to special
interests. He seems to always do what his business contributors tell
him to do.

Spenser Abraham's claim to fame is that he served as Deputy Chief of of Staff to Vice President Quayle.

Spencer Abraham can be e-mailed at michigan@abraham.senate.gov

VIVA FREE SPEACH !!!!