Anybody up for looking at top donors?

[Walt Starr]

From opensecrets.org:

Kerry

Skadden, Arps et al
$97,650

Citigroup Inc
$70,200

Piper Rudnick
$68,250

Mintz, Levin et al
$63,300

Goldman Sachs
$62,500

Robins, Kaplan et al
$62,250

Hill, Holliday et al
$50,750

Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance
$50,250

Harvard University
$47,750

Morgan Stanley
$39,500

Clifford Law Offices
$36,000

Bain Capital
$35,500

International Profit Assoc
$34,250

Holland & Knight
$32,950

Akin, Gump et al
$32,550

Fleetboston Financial
$32,000

UBS Americas
$31,550

Hale & Dorr
$30,200

Sullivan & Cromwell
$30,050

Thornton, Early & Naumes
$29,000

Dean

AOL Time Warner
$61,975

University of California
$54,874

Microsoft Corp
$25,100

IBM Corp
$22,750

Harvard University
$22,400

Dean for America
$19,893

Emory University
$16,050

Goldman Sachs
$16,000

University of Pennsylvania
$15,500

Stanford University
$15,000

Skadden, Arps et al
$14,449

Citigroup Inc
$14,100

Dartmouth College
$13,750

Hewlett-Packard
$12,850

McKenna, Long & Aldridge
$12,700

State of Vermont
$12,680

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
$12,500

University of Texas
$12,299

Morgan Stanley
$11,450

Walt Disney Co
$11,450

Clark

Sullivan & Cromwell
$9,500

Cravath, Swaine & Moore
$8,500

Viacom
$8,450

Georgetown Co
$8,000

Skadden, Arps et al
$7,950

Citigroup Inc
$7,250

University of Wisconsin
$5,900

Weil, Gotshal & Manges
$5,550

Latham & Watkins
$5,250

Harvard University
$5,250

Janklow & Nesbit
$5,000

Allen & Co
$5,000

AOL Time Warner
$4,750

Caltech
$4,550

Puma Springs Vineyards
$4,500

Roll International
$4,000

McCalliont Assoc
$4,000

Eos Management
$4,000

Goldman Sachs
$4,000

Donners Co
$4,000

Edwards

Baron & Budd
$77,250

Goldman Sachs
$76,000

Girardi & Keese
$63,475

Beasley, Allen et al
$62,850

Simmons Firm
$49,000

Robinson & Cole
$47,200

Weitz & Luxenberg
$46,250

Robinson, Calcagnie & Robinson
$38,250

Morris, Haynes & Hornsby
$38,000

Koskoff, Koskoff & Bieder
$37,500

Wilkes & McHugh
$36,000

Fieger, Fieger et al
$34,500

Morgan Stanley
$32,650

Watts Law Firm
$32,000

Cotchett, Pitre et al
$32,000

Wilentz, Goldman & Spitzer
$30,500

Paul, William & Beltz
$30,250

Lopez, Hodes et al
$30,000

Baker, Keener & Nahra
$30,000

Lieff, Cabraser et al
$29,350

[Lefta Dissenter]

1. Obviously,

Clark is under the thumb of big-money donors!

Hey, Yeay for University of Wisconsin! :)

[wyldwolf]

2. Yeah, did you notice all of Clark's are below $10,000?

[HFishbine]

8. Umm

Did you notice that these are cumilative donations for the period ended 9/31/03. Clark's donations are for a three-week period, others represent cummilative totals for a year or more.

[Walt Starr]

4. This does not count last quarter, I believe

But still, I like what I see with Dean and Clark.

[Guaranteed]

3. UC donates to politicians? I had no idea.

Well, at least they're donating to Dean! I'm a proud graduate of UCSB, class of 2001!! WHOOHOO! Go Gauchos!

[HFishbine]

10. Not exactly.

You are seeing a cummulative total of contribtuions by individuals aggregated by employer.

[blm]

12. Those are INDIVIDUALS who work there as in the other donations.

Big difference.

None of them are as bad as they are supposed to look by lumping them all together like a corporate pac.

[in_cog_ni_to]

5. Would you look at that?

Clark's donation are a pittance in comparison. LOOK at Edwards! Holy Cow! Looks like he's tapped into the $$$$ of his fellow lawyers.

[blm]

13. Clark's totals are from 3 weeks of running. Look at the date.

.

[no name no slogan]

6. Why not show Kucinich's, Liebermann's and Sharpton's donors, too?

DK's largest donors are labor unions, IIRC. But that should hardly be a suprise, as he's spent his career standing up to them.

:D

[ScreamingMeemie]

7. I really have a problem with these because of the new contribution

laws. What could look like a sizable donation to a candidate from a corporation could quite possibly a bunch of single donations from one group. My brother in law works for Chrysler and quite a few of them have donated over $100 to a candidate. In essence, that would make it look like Chrysler itself is making these donations. Let's be the better guy here and not buy into this. That's what they'd like us to do. :hi:

[AP]

9. For those who don't know...

Skadden, Arps et al, Piper Rudnick, Holland & Knight, Akin, Gump et al, Hale & Dorr and Sullivan & Cromwell are some of the biggest national corporate law firms in America, and get most of their money from big corporations who don't blink at a huge bill.

Edwards's donors seem to be a bunch of regional law firms, that probably do plaintiff litigation for ordinary people who don't pay their bills unless they win.

Now, the fact is that the lawyers at those big firms on Kerry's list might be young people, idealists, just out of law school with fat paychecks and are motivated only by good. And it's also the case that many people are not going to like the idea that plaintiffs lawyers are providing the bulk of the support for Edwards.

But I thought I'd just point out that there is a very qualitative difference between the sorts of influence these two kids of law firms have on the landscape. In fact, when the lawyers on Kerry's lists aren't doing the paper work for IPO's or whatever, they're probably responding to discovery demands from lawyers on Edwards's list.

[curse10]

16. Mintz Levin is where Cam Kerry works and is a very liberal firm

considering its size and business- I know a dozen or so associates there and all are Kerry supporters and liberals. Not all attorneys are evil repugs :-)

Hale & Dorr is another gigantic firm- I've met a couple of their associates- liberals as well.

[AP]

17. True. True. I bet most law firms give more money to Dems.

But I'm talking about the bigger picture: who and what do these firms represent.

Democrats cover a wide spectrum on the left. There are lots of interest to be represented. I'm just saying that the firms listed under Kerry's name (and Clark's for that matter) represent different interests than the firms on Edwards's list.

BTW, Monsanto's lawyers are heavily involved in the Democratic party.

[curse10]

18. Very true

Edwards has big trial lawyer support (I went to the Colorado Trial Lawyers annual shindig, he was the keynote speaker).

Kerry has a lot of big-time law firms- probably because he worked for the Middlesex DA. However, I was at a young professionals (read, lawyers) for Kerry party and there were a few trial lawyers and guys from smaller, independent firms :-)

[AP]

19. Kerry was also in private practice in Mass after he was DA

and before he became Lt Gov.

From prep school, college, and politics, he clearly has extensive connecitons in Bos legal community.

[xultar]

11. Clark only has 4 figure donors WOW! n/t

[Walt Starr]

14. Those numbers will change

Those numbers do not include last quarter, just Q3 of 2003. Clark had been in it about a month at the compilation of those numbers.

[AP]

15. Yeah. he'd probably been in the race about 2 weeks before this

diclosure period ended.

[Renew Deal]

20. Are those direct contributions or cumulative of employees?