2. On tobacco and impeachment.

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri Dec 18 17:21:54 PST 1998


PS: This is the total for the 1996 elections; my $433 million was just a partial count. $2.4 billion. Tobacco's $10m is big, but it's not *that* big. Philip Morris is a big giver, but so are the trial lawyers.

Public Money $211 million Small Donations $734 million Large Individual Donors $597 million Political Action Committees (PACs) $243 million Soft money $262 million Candidates $161 million Other $200 million TOTAL $2.4 billion

Grand Total Dems Repubs Dem% Rep%

Business $653,439,623 $259,795,670 $391,434,434 40% 60% Ideology $ 34,349,181 $ 16,273,131 $ 18,007,111 47% 52% Labor $ 58,105,146 $ 53,905,198 $ 4,016,614 93% 7% Other $ 45,662,216 $ 20,255,098 $ 24,992,172 44% 55% Unknown $ 67,644,573 $ 22,116,623 $ 45,072,813 33% 67%

These numbers include PAC, individual, and soft money contributions.



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