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Ben Cardin’s Funders PDF  | Print |  E-mail
Wednesday, 13 September 2006
By visiting  www.OpenSecrets.org you can see where Ben Cardin gets his funding.  Below are excerpts from those pages.


CAREER PROFILE (SINCE 1989)

Ben Cardin
 
Running for Senate
1989-2006 Total Receipts: $10,765,416
1989-2006 Total Spent: $9,223,390
Debts: $0

Source of Funds:
 
Individual contributions    $6,185,493    (57%)

PAC contributions    $3,763,606    (35%)

Candidate self-financing    $0
 
Other    $816,317    (8%)

PAC Contribution Breakdown

Business    $3,076,239    (76.9%)

Labor    $759,215    (19.0%)

Ideological/Single Issue    $167,404    (4.2%)

Quality of Disclosure:

Full Disclosure    $4,549,149    (89.9%)
Incomplete     $18,500    (0.4%)
No Disclosure    $490,623    (9.7%)

Lifetime Contributors by Industry Sector (since 1989)

Sector
Total
PACs
Indivs
Agribusiness
$132,882 $76,920
$55,962
Communic/Electronics $172,150 $93,600 $78,550
Construction
$125,522 $35,872 $89,650
Defense
$49,900
$48,400
$1,500
Energy/Nat Resource
$263,030
$202,380
$60,650
Finance/Insur/RealEst
$2,055,328
$1,152,981
$902,347
Lawyers & Lobbyists
$1,013,725
$174,349
$839,376
Transportation
$212,649
$151,349
$61,300
Misc Business
$596,516
$299,517
$296,999
Labor
$759,465
$759,215
$250
Ideology/Single-Issue
$321,385
$167,404
$153,981
Other $612,839
$7,500 $605,339


Top Contributors (since 1989)


DLA Piper Rudnick et al     $85,150       
American Health Care Assn     $58,850       
Constellation Energy     $56,700       
National Assn of Realtors     $53,200       
United Auto Workers     $53,200       
Teamsters Union     $52,450       
American Institute of CPAs     $49,997       
Legg Mason     $48,150       
Ernst & Young     $48,103       
United Food & Commercial Workers Union     $47,550       
Metropolitan Life     $45,275       
National Assn of Life Underwriters     $45,000       
American Fedn of St/Cnty/Munic Employees    $44,300       
Laborers Union     $43,500       
American Hospital Assn     $41,100       
National Assn of Letter Carriers     $38,500       
Gallagher, Evelius & Jones     $38,150       
Assn of Trial Lawyers of America     $38,000       
United Parcel Service     $37,449       
American Academy of Ophthalmology     $37,000       
Johns Hopkins University     $37,000 
     
Cardin’s Current Funding
Running for Senate
2005-2006 Total Receipts: $5,472,560
2005-2006 Total Spent: $4,004,597
Cash on Hand: $1,625,467
Debts: $0
Date of last report: August 23, 2006
First elected: 1986
Next election: 2006

Individual contributions     $4,480,732    (81.9%)

PAC contributions    $941,589    (17.2%)

Candidate self-financing    $0
 

Other    $50,239    (0.9%)

Current Top Contributors

DLA Piper Rudnick et al    $51,050           
Constellation Energy    $40,700
Johns Hopkins University    $22,850 
Gallagher, Evelius & Jones    $22,150
Cardiology Assoc    $22,032
Mma Financial    $20,200    
Legg Mason    $18,150   
Baron & Budd    $17,000    
KSI Services    $16,600        
Ernst & Young    $16,003 
Goldman Sachs    $14,750       
Aepco Inc    $13,900
Morgan Creek Productions    $12,600
Patton Boggs LLP    $12,600
Metropolitan Life    $12,000
Akin, Gump et al    $11,750
Williams & Jensen    $11,450
Venable LLP    $11,250
University of Maryland    $10,950
Baltimore Gas & Electric    $10,500       


Cardin and the Israeli Lobby


Rep. Cardin ranks 15th among candidates for the U.S. Senate.

1 Stabenow, Debbie (D-MI)     $84,906       
2 Kyl, Jon (R-AZ)     $84,750       
3 Clinton, Hillary Rodham (D-NY)     $83,818       
4 Lieberman, Joe (I-CT)     $75,000       
5 Nelson, Bill (D-FL)     $71,861      
6 Conrad, Kent (D-ND)     $68,600       
7 Talent, James M (R-MO)     $66,010      
8 Nelson, Ben (D-NE)     $65,500      
9 Santorum, Rick (R-PA)     $62,000       
10 Menendez, Robert (D-NJ)     $49,611       
11 DeWine, Mike (R-OH)     $48,000       
12 Lugar, Richard G (R-IN)     $39,710       
13 Burns, Conrad (R-MT)     $35,500       
14 Feinstein, Dianne (D-CA)     $33,500       
15 Cardin, Ben (D-MD)     $30,942

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