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This site definition of 'CONSERVATIVE'   top
PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE*
  • Open Secrets, Top Donors, Republican
  • Morgan Stanley, 
  • Dell Computer
  • MBNA Bank
  • Monsanto
  • McDonalds
  • Recording Industry Association of America
  • National Beer Wholesalers Association, 
  • SBC Communications
  • UBS Americas 
  • Wall Mart Stores 
  • Merrill Lynch 
  • National Association of Home Builders 
  • United Parcel Service 
  • National Auto Dealers Association 
  • American Hospital Association 
  • Price Waterhouse Coopers 
  • Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu 
  • Ernst & Young 
  • Credit Suisse First Boston 
  • Lockheed Martin 
  • American Bankers Association 
  • Blank Rome LLP 
  • MBNA Corp 
  • Northrup Grumann 
  • Verizon Communications 
  • Fed Ex Corp 
  • Associated Builders & Contractors 
  • Pfizer Inc. 
  • AFLAC Inc 
  • KPMG LLP 
  • American Dental Association 
  • General Dynamics
  • Wachovia
  • American Medical Association
  • Bell South Corp
  • Union Pacific Corp
  • Southern Company
  • Wells Fargo
  • Cendant Corp
  • American Financial Group
  • Metropolitan Life
  • FMR Corp
  • Altria, Phillip Morris
  • US Government
  • National Association Insurance & Financial Advisors
  • ARMPAC Americans for a Republican Majority, Tom Delay
  • Bush, Cheney, Rice, Powell, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Racicot, Gillespie, 
  • Christian Legal Society, bars gays from their campus organization, also committed to proclaiming, loving and serving Jesus Christ.
  • ExxonMobil search: Stop ESSO Campaign and see ExxonMobil PAC info.  Overwhelming % soft money to Bush.
  • Forbes  The Holy war on SUVs, search.
  • Microsoft search: lobbying to oppose anti-trust efforts.  Large monopolistic corporations are conservative.  .
  • TRMPAC, Texans for a Republican Majority

and we also research the 'conservative' view

Texans for Public Justice Civil Complaint  against Texans for a Republican Majority    top  
    CONSERVATIVE*  
Itemized Contributions & Expenditures of the TRM
TRM's IRS & TEC Filings Differ
  In Texas Ethics
Comm. Filing
In IRS '527' Filing
Total Contributions
$796,651
$1,547,963
Total Expenditures
$799,642
$1,410,766

Corporate Contributions to TRM
Last name amount 
Aegis Mortgage
$ 5,000 
Alliance for Quality Nursing Home Care Inc.
$ 100,000 
AT&T
$ 20,000 
Bacardi USA Inc.
$ 20,000 
Barona
$ 5,000 
Belmont Oil & Gas Corp.
$ 25,000 
Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway
$ 26,000 
Constellation Energy Group
$ 27,500 
Contemporary Constructors, Inc.
$ 300 
Cornell Companies
$ 10,000 
Diversified Collection Services Inc.
$ 50,000 
Dunn Construction Co. Inc.
$ 5,000 
El Paso Energy
$ 50,000 
Gulf States Toyota
$ 250 
Lexmark
$ 5,000 
Maxxam Inc.
$ 5,000 
Old Country Store, Inc.
$ 25,000 
Pacific Care
$ 2,500 
Perfect Wave Technologies
$ 15,000 
Phillip Morris Mgt. Corp.
$ 25,000 
Questarra Corp
$ 50,000 
RDM Enterprises
$ 5,000 
Reliant Resources Inc.
$ 25,000 
Sears, Roebuck & Co.
$ 25,000 
Silver Eagle Distributors
$ 5,000 
STV Incorporated
$ 1,000 
SuperCuts
$ 1,000 
Texas Package Stores Association
$ 1,500 
The Pickens Co. Inc.
$ 5,000 
Thomas Graphics
$ 250 
US Risk
$ 10,000 
Westar Energy
$ 25,000 
Williams Companies Inc.
$ 25,000 
Wintergreen Group Inc.
$ 2,000 
Total:
$ 602,300 

 

All TRM Contributors of at least $10,000
Bold=not listed in PAC filing
Name Total 
Contributed
Bob Perry
$165,000
Farmers Employee and Agent PAC of Texas
$150,000
James Leininger
$142,500
All. for Quality Nursing Home Care Inc.
$100,000
Americans for a Republican Majority
$75,000
Boone Pickens
$50,000
Questarra Corp
$50,000
Diversified Collection Services Inc.
$50,000
El Paso Energy
$50,000
Constellation Energy Group
$27,500
Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway
$26,000
Louis Beecherl
$25,000
Williams Companies Inc.
$25,000
Westar Energy
$25,000
Reliant Resources Inc.
$25,000
Sears, Roebuck & Co.
$25,000
Phillip Morris Mgt Corp.
$25,000
Belmont Oil & Gas Corp.
$25,000
John V. Lattimore, Jr.
$25,000
Preston Gates Ellis & Rouvellas Meed LLP
$25,000
National Republican Legislators Association
$25,000
Old Country Store, Inc.
$25,000
UPS PAC
$20,000
Bacardi USA Inc.
$20,000
AT&T
$20,000
Perfect Wave Technologies
$15,000
Texas Business of Commerce PAC
$13,126
US Risk
$10,000
Cornell Companies
$10,000
Bold=not listed in PAC filing


TRM Expenditures NOT disclosed in TEC filings
Name Total
Republican National State Elections Committee
$190,000
John Colyandro
$69,936
Contact America
$65,000
WMR Consulting Inc.
$50,843
Kevin Brannon
$39,162
Lilly & Co. LLC
$28,524
Coastal Consulting
$27,617
Fabrizo McLaughlin & Associates
$27,000
Tri-South Inc.
$24,894
Loeffler, Jonas & Tuggey
$11,197
Texas Association of Business 
and Chambers of Commerce
$10,200
Thomas Graphics
$9,458
Hyatt Regency
$7,231
A.C.E. Research & Technology
$6,600
Dan Gattis Campaign
$6,000
AT&T
$2,888
Barton Creek Country Club
$2,000
NIC ACCUPP
$1,200
Headliner's Club
$1,058

 


Follow the Money  top
PROGRESSIVE  CONSERVATIVE*
Israel, Sharon, Likud    top
PROGRESSIVE  CONSERVATIVE*
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Pharmaceuticals Campaign Contributions    top
PROGRESSIVE    CONSERVATIVE*
Christian Coalition agenda    top
PROGRESSIVE  CONSERVATIVE*
  • Making permanent Bush's 2001 federal tax cuts, including the marriage penalty tax cut
  • Getting votes in the first session of the 108th Congress to confirm Bush's judicial nominations.
  • Help pass Senator Charles Schumer's bipartisan 'Stop Pornography and Abusive Marketing Act,' the SPAM Act, S. 1231.
  • Passing Senator Lindsey Graham's and Congressman Joe Wilson's 'Holy Sites' resolution
  • Passing Majority Whip Roy Blunt's and Democrat Congressman Harold Ford's 'Charitable Giving Act of 2003,' H.R. 7.
  • Passing Congressman Spencer Bachus' and Senator Jon Kyl's 'Internet Gambling Enforcement Act'.
  • Getting a vote on Congressman Henry Brown's 'Child Pornography Prevention Constitutional Amendment' in both the House and Senate.
  • Passing Congressman Walter Jones' 'Houses of Worship Free Speech Restoration Act.'
  • Passing Congressman Robert Aderholt's 'Ten Commandments Display Act', H.R. 2045
  • Passing the anti-cloning bill, including Senator Sam Brownback's bill in the U.S. Senate
  • Passing Congresswoman Melissa Hart's and Senator Mike DeWine's 'Unborn Victims of Violence Act'
  • Passing the 'Child Custody Protection Act in the House and Senate
  • Getting a vote on Congressman Ernest Istook's 'Prayer and Pledge' Constitutional Amendment
  • Support Support Congressman Frank Lucas' 'Pledge of Allegiance Constitutional Amendment'
  • Support Congressman Todd Akin's 'Hands off the Pledge of Allegiance, Federal Courts' bill
  • Prohibit special civil rights protection based on sexual preference/'domestic partners'.
  • Supporting legislation allowing parental choice in education
    (vouchers/tax credits/scholarship tax credits, etc.)
  • Supporting legislation barring adoptions of children by homosexuals
  • Supporting legislation prohibiting the physical desecration of the flag of the United States of America.
 
FEC    top
PROGRESSIVE  REFERENCE CONSERVATIVE*
NRA    top
PROGRESSIVE  REFERENCE CONSERVATIVE*
Tobacco    top
PROGRESSIVE  REFERENCE CONSERVATIVE*
Tobacco PAC Contributions

Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids  search campaign contributions.  The majority go to Republicans   sorted by Dem / Rep and  original PDF from FEC, very large file

Democratic Recipients of Tobacco PAC Contributions Among Congressional Leadership PACs (partial list) see

January 1, 1999 - October 4, 2004 (partial cycle)

RECIPENT MEMBER AFFILIATION (IF APPLICABLE) AMOUNT

  • BLUE DOG PAC REP. COLLIN PETERSON (D-MN) $73,000
  • AMERIPAC: THE FUND FOR A GREATER AMERICA REP. STENY HOYER (D-MD) $68,500
  • SEARCHLIGHT LEADERSHIP FUND SEN. HARRY REID (D-NV) $20,500
  • LEADERSHIP 21 REP. JOHN TANNER (D-TN) $20,500
  • LONE STAR FUND REP. MARTIN FROST (D-TX) $19,000
  • GUMBO PAC REP. CHRIS JOHN (D-LA) $16,500
  •  
Republican Recipients of Tobacco PAC Contributions Among Congressional Leadership PACs

January 1, 1999 - October 4, 2004 (partial cycle)

RECIPENT MEMBER AFFILIATION (IF APPLICABLE) AMOUNT

  • THE FREEDOM PROJECT REP. JOHN BOEHNER (R-OH) $160,000
  • REPUBLICAN MAJORITY FUND SEN. DON NICKLES (R-OK) $137,491
  • AMERICANS FOR A REPUBLICAN MAJORITY REP. TOM DELAY (R-TX) $123,500
  • COMMITTEE FOR THE PRESERVATION OF
  • CAPITALISM REP. JIM MCCRERY (R-LA) $109,250
  • NEW REPUBLICAN MAJORITY FUND SEN. TRENT LOTT (R-MS) $97,500
  • BLUEGRASS COMMITTEE SEN. MITCH MCCONNELL (R-KY) $77,500
  • BAYOU LEADER PAC REP. BILLY TAUZIN (R-LA) $74,682
  • FREEDOM WORKS PAC FORMER REP. DICK ARMEY (R-TX) $65,000
  • RELY ON YOUR BELIEFS FUND REP. ROY BLUNT (R-MO) $65,000
  • AMERICAN SUCCESS PAC REP. DAVID DREIER (R-CA) $63,500
  • COMMON SENSE LEADERSHIP FUND SEN. SAXBY CHAMBLISS (R-GA) $62,000
  • LEADERSHIP PAC 2004 REP. MIKE OXLEY (R-OH) $58,300
  • NEXT CENTURY FUND REP. WALTER JONES (R-NC) $54,000
  • AMERICA'S FOUNDATION SEN. RICK SANTORUM (R-PA) $47,000
  • TOGETHER FOR OUR MAJORITY REP. TOM REYNOLDS (R-NY) $40,500
  • AMERICA'S MAJORITY TRUST REP. ROB PORTMAN (R-OH) $39,000
  • PROMOTING REPUBLICANS YOU CAN ELECT
  • PROJECT REP. DEBORAH PRYCE (R-OH) $32,000
  • FEDERAL VICTORY FUND REP. TOM DAVIS (R-VA) $31,500
  • ALLIANCE FOR THE WEST SEN. LARRY E. CRAIG (R-ID) $28,000
  • HELP AMERICA'S LEADERS PAC REP. HAROLD ROGERS (R-KY) $26,500
  • SENATE VICTORY FUND PAC SEN. THAD COCHRAN (R-MS) $24,500
  • CONGRESSIONAL MAJORITY COMMITTEE REP. BILL THOMAS (R-CA) $19,000
  • DANIEL WEBSTER PAC SEN. JOHN SUNUNU (R-NH) $17,500
  • AMERICAN RENEWAL PAC (GROWPAC) FORMER REP. JC WATTS (R-OK) $17,250
  • CAMPAC (CONTINUING A MAJORITY) REP. DAVE CAMP (R-MI) $16,500
  • EVERY REPUBLICAN IS CRUCIAL REP. ERIC CANTOR (R-VA) $16,500
Inauguration $250k donors list    top
PROGRESSIVE  CONSERVATIVE*  Inauguration 250l donors list
  • COMPANIES
  • Altria Corporate Services Inc. (New York) Parent company of Kraft and Philip Morris
  • Ameriquest Capital Corp. (Orange, Calif.) Financial services company
  • Argent Mortgage Company (Orange, Calif.)
  • ChevronTexaco Corp. (Concord, Calif.)
  • Corporate Capital LLC (New Orleans) Investment firm
  • Exxon Mobil Corp. (Washington)
  • Golden Eagle Industries Inc. (Charlotte) Buiding materials company
  • Kojaian Ventures LLC (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.)
  • Long Beach Acceptance Corp. (Paramus, N.J.) Auto loan company
  • Occidental Petroleum Corp. (Los Angeles)
  • Rooney Holdings Inc. (Tulsa) Construction company
  • Sallie Mae Inc. (Reston, Va.) Student loan organization
  • Southern Company Inc. (Atlanta) Energy utility
  • Stephens Group Inc. (Little Rock, Ark.) Investment firm
  • Town and Country Credit (Irvine, Calif.) Mortgage company
  • United Technologies Corp. (Hartford, Conn.) Aerospace and industrial manufacture

 

  • INDIVIDUALS
  • Elliott Broidy (Los Angeles) Founder of investment firm Broidy Capital Management
  • Michael Dell (Austin, Texas) Founder of the Dell computer company
  • Richard Kinder (Houston) Former Enron president,
  • S. Davis Phillips (High Point, N.C.) Former North Carolina commerce secretary
  • T. Boone Pickens (Dallas) Texas oilman
'Arkansas, Prison Blood Scandal'      top
PROGRESSIVE  REFERENCE CONSERVATIVE*
  • Factor8, Kelly Duda, prison officials doctored medical records, show NOT carrying disease,  American Film Institute Festival, showing, 
  • Prorev Arkansas prison system AIDS scandal cover-up, not reported in 1992 election.
  • Indymedia, Omaha Bill Clinton's "Killer Prison Blood" scandal -Author James Pattison MORE below
  • Salon Arkansas Prison Blood Scandal, "One thousand Canadian victims demand answers from Clinton and others about the export of contaminated blood products from U.S. prisons long after they were no longer sold domestically.
  • Salon, Blood Money
  • TPMuckraker
  • Notes: search terms, elite best kept secrets, prison-aids tie, manslaughter, prison system incubator of AIDS, blacks nine times as likely as whites to contract AIDS, not exclusive to gay white men anymore, unprotected sex behind bars, homosexual men, intravenous drug users, prison inmates,  incubator in black neighborhoods after infected prisoners return, Clinton sat on his hands despite evidence of clear mismanagement, whistle blower: Michael Galster, office fire-bombed, 
  • Arkansas Democrat, newspaper, 80 articles written but ignored by national press. 
  • Blood Trail, novel, Arkansas Prison Blood Scandal
  • Canada 
  • Canadian Red Cross, stopped collecting blood from inmates in 1971.
  • Encyclopedia of Arkansas Arkansas Prison Blood Scandal, Cummins Penitentiary, Dr. Edwin Brown resigned in disgust, Clinton knew, HIV,
  • IMDB, Arkansas Prison Blood Scandal, movie review
  • Scotland, Clinton testify, hemophiliacs, infected with hepatitus, liver virus, UK, clotting agents, transfusions, 
  • Wikipedia "Factor 8: The Arkansas Prison Blood Scandal is a feature length documentary by Arkansas filmmaker and investigative journalist Kelly Duda. Through interviews and presentation of documents and footage, Duda alleges that for more than two decades, the Arkansas prison system profited from selling blood plasma from inmates infected with viral hepatitis and AIDS. The documentary contends that thousands of victims who received transfusions of a blood product derived from these plasma products, "Factor 8", died as a result.
  • UK Haemophilia Society
  • Washington Weekly
  •  
  • ABCNews Arkansas prison system AIDS scandal cover-up, not reported in 1992 election.
  • Arkansas Penal System, Cummins Unit, Clinton governor, still operating in 1994, last state to cease selling prisoner's plasma.  genocide.
  • CNN News blackout, Clinton, Arkansas, AIDS blood scandal, 1992 election.
  • FBI, knew Montreal-based blood plasma middlemen shipped tainted blood,
  • FDA, Arkansas plasma sent to Switzerland, Spain, Japan, Italy, Canada, hepatitus C, wrongful handling of blood supplies, contaminated blood from prison donors, warnings ignored, plasma collected at centers licensed by the FDA in prisons in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, 
  • FreeRepublic  F A C T O R 8: THE ARKANSAS PRISON BLOOD SCANDAL (... or how can Hollywood support a clinton, Mr. Gere?)
  • HillaryProject
  • NBC News News blackout, Clinton, Arkansas, AIDS blood scandal, 1992 election.
  • NoHillaryClinton "In the early 1980s, while Clinton was serving as governor of Arkansas, his administration awarded a contract to Health Management Associates .... But HMA found a willing buyer in Montreal, which brokered a deal with Connaught, a Toronto blood-fractionator, which didn’t know the source of the supplies..."  MORE
  • Royal Canadian Mounted Police,
  • Washington Post, "Answer to AIDS Mystery Found Behind Bars"
  • Notes: Reagan also silent on AIDS,
  • Indymedia, Omaha,  Bill Clinton's "Killer Prison Blood" scandal -Author James Pattison Date Created 22 Oct 2006 More details... Date Edited 22 Oct 2006 02:14:43 PM License This work is in the public domain BAD BLOOD Canadian media, including the Calgary Sun and Ottawa Citizen, are reporting that tainted blood from Arkansas prisons made its way to a Montreal blood broker in the 1980s when Bill Clinton was governor. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police are investigating. At the time, American sources were not accepting prisoners' blood because of possible HIV contamination. OTTAWA CITIZEN WASHINGTON POST ADMITS PRISON-AIDS TIE ...  ONE OF THE BEST kept secrets of the American elite has been that its prison policies have not been tough love but, at best, massive negligent manslaughter. Not only has the war on drugs killed more young black American men on the streets than were killed in Vietnam, but the prison system is a primary incubator for AIDS. This has been ignored and denied by the mainstream media so for the Post to headline "Answer to AIDS Mystery Found Behind Bars" is a bit of a step forward. Writes Richard Morin misleadingly, "It is one of the most puzzling mysteries of the AIDS epidemic: Why did blacks, in little more than a dozen years, become nine times as likely as whites to contract a disease once associated almost exclusively with gay white men? Two researchers say they found the answer in an unlikely place: prison." In fact, there's little puzzling about it. We have repeatedly pointed to the tie between AIDS and prisons not only because of the amount of unprotected sex behind bars but because prisons have served as an incubator in black neighborhoods after AIDS-infected prisoners are released and resume heterosexual sex. Here is just one example of the damage that has occurred, again something the archaic media largely failed to report: PROGRESSIVE REVIEW, 1999 - In the mid-1980s, as contaminated blood flowed from Arkansas inmates to other countries, then-Governor W.J. Clinton sat on his hands despite evidence of severe mismanagement in his prison system and its medical operations. . . Some of the killer blood ended up in Canada where it contributed to the deaths of an unknown number of blood and plasma recipients. An estimated 2,000 Canadian recipients of blood and related products got the AIDS virus between 1980 and 1985. At least 60,000 Canadians were infected with the hepatitis C virus between 1980 and 1990. Arkansas was one of the few sources of bad blood during this period. . . Other Arkansas plasma was sent to Switzerland, Spain, Japan, and Italy. In a case with strong echoes of the Arkansas scandal, a former premier of France and two of his cabinet colleagues are currently on trial stemming from the wrongful handling of blood supplies. Some of the blood in the French controversy may have come from Arkansas. A 1992 Newsday report on the French scandal noted that three persons had been convicted for their role in distributing blood they knew was contaminated: "Throughout the 1980s and later, blood was taken from prison donors for use in blood banks despite a series of directives warning against such a practice. According to the report, donations from prisoners accounted for 25 percent of all the contaminated blood products in France. Blood from prisons was 69 times more contaminated that that of the general population of donors." The Arkansas blood program was also grossly mishandled by the Food and Drug Administration. And the scandal provides yet another insight into how the American media misled the public about Clinton during the 1992 campaign. The media ignored a major Clinton scandal despite, for example, 80 articles about it in the Arkansas Democrat in just one four-month period of the mid-80s."
  • Encyclopedia of Arkansas "In 1985, the Arkansas Board of Corrections hired the Institute for Law and Policy Planning (ILPP) in Berkeley, California, to conduct an independent investigation into HMA’s practices. At the same time, Governor Bill Clinton ordered the state police to conduct a similar investigation. The institute discovered instances in which HMA had violated its state contract in forty areas, including poor health assessment and recordkeeping and the hiring of unlicensed, uncertified, and unqualified staff. In contrast, the state police investigation found only that a few HMA employees had been running a small-time gambling operation. Clinton urged a swift end to the investigation. ADC director Art Lockhart, about whom many allegations of impropriety had been raised, was not punished; being an employee of the ADC board, he could not be fired by Clinton, and he had a protector in the powerful state Senator Knox Nelson of Pine Bluff."
  • NoHillaryClinton "In the early 1980s, while Clinton was serving as governor of Arkansas, his administration awarded a contract to Health Management Associates to provide medical care to the state’s prisoners. The president of the company was a long-time friend and political ally of Clinton and was later appointed by him to the Arkansas Industrial Development Commission. Later, he was among the senior members of Clinton’s 1990 gubernatorial re-election team.  ... As part of the deal HMA struck with Arkansas, in addition to treating the prisoners, the company collected their blood and sold it. Because of the exploding AIDS crisis, U.S. regulations didn’t permit the sale of prisoners’ blood within the country. But HMA found a willing buyer in Montreal, which brokered a deal with Connaught, a Toronto blood-fractionator, which didn’t know the source of the supplies..."

 

 

 

 

 

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