• Send FReep Mail to Unmarked Package to get [ON] or [OFF] the Mitt Romney Ping List •
Posted on 07/16/2007 10:21:30 AM PDT by Reaganesque
Romney Contributions from Selected Industries and Overall Rank Among All Candidates:
Securities & Investment $1,988,650 #1
Retired $1,718,441 #1
Real Estate $1,628,000 #1
Lawyers/Law Firms $1,106,027 #6
Hedge Funds & Private Equity $597,800 #1
Health Professionals $477,025 #2
Insurance $311,000 #2
Education $307,200 #3
Commercial Banks $291,611 #1
Computers/Internet $258,400 #2
Pharmaceuticals/Health Products $154,760 #1
Lobbyists $111,449 #4
Oil & Gas $110,200 #2
TV/Movies/Music $97,050 #7
Tobacco $5,400 #4
Telephone Utilities $4,600 #6
Casinos/Gambling $2,100 #8
It has state by state breakdowns, Payee, Zipcode, Date, etc. In most cases, Mitt is doing as well as, if not better than Hillary and Obama. Not bad at all.
At #6, “lawyers” really don’t like Mitt Romney.
Another reason to vote for him!
“2008 PRESIDENTIAL RACE
Contributions from Selected Industries
Display:
Casinos/Gambling
Rudolph W. Giuliani (R)
$144,200
Christopher J. Dodd (D)
$40,700
Hillary Clinton (D)
$34,350”
Big shock that the Mob would be donating so much to Bernie Kerik’s buddy Rooty./ sarc.
Weak point on your part SK
I suspect that's because a lot of us finance and econ profs like him.
I went to grad school in Boston, so I know first hand that he is highly regarded in the Harvard and MIT econ and finance deparments (which lean republican, BTW, to all you Romney haters). His head econ advisor for his presidential campaign is in the Harvard econ deparment, and he had several MIT people advising him while governor.
FYI, there are few people who have done as much to fight the mob in their careers as Rudy, both as a prosecutor and as a mayor. Yes, he may have made deals with individual mobsters alnog the way, but that's the price you have to pay if you want to go after the big boys. I don't support him as a presidential candidate, but give the man credit where it is due: he was an excellent prosecutor and mayor.
“The FEC’s report can be found here
It has state by state breakdowns, Payee, Zipcode, Date, etc. In most cases, Mitt is doing as well as, if not better than Hillary and Obama. Not bad at all.”
Not really, Obama’s at 52.3 million in fundraising; Clinton’s at 57.9 million and Romney’s at 32.8 million.
(Cash on hand plus total reciepts for the quarter).
From the zip codes, I see he’s doing very well in conservative San Diego and Orange Counties — especially in Rancho Santa Fe and Newport Beach.
Not surprising. Eric Kriss served as Mitt's Secretary of Administration and Finance in Massachusetts. His uncle was Milton Friedman, the Nobel economist -- and fiscal conservative hero.
------------------------
"The unfettered free market has been the most radically destructive force in American life in the last generation."
-- Hillary Clinton on C-Span in 1996 stating her troubles with the free market
"What most people really object to when they object to a free market is that it is so hard for them to shape it to their own will. The market gives people what the people want instead of what other people think they ought to want. At the bottom of many criticisms of the market economy is really lack of belief in freedom itself."
-- Milton Friedman, Wall Street Journal, May 18, 1961
A big reason I support him. I think hes the only 1st tier candidate of either party talking about tort reform. As a businessman he obvioulsy knows the serious disadvantage our out of control legal costs and legal risk put on us versus the rest of the world.
Yes, They formed corporations.
“FYI, there are few people who have done as much to fight the mob in their careers as Rudy, both as a prosecutor and as a mayor.”
He didn’t fight them, he hired them.
Actually, no, they sold out to corporations. No modern, large public corporation is going to be associated with the mob. The risk of getting slapped with a RICO suit, and all the negative PR that comes with it, just isn't worth it.
He didn’t fight them, he hired them.
You have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. His entire career as a prosecutor was devoted to putting mob men in jail. As mayor, he broke mob control over garbage collection in NYC.
Was he perfect? No. He hired as police commissioner in 2000 a man who had once taken some minor kickbacks from a mob-controlled firm. The man was no mobster, and he did a good job as commissioner. I recognize that's no excuse; the man was tainted. I also agree Gulliani was derelict in his duty in this one incident in that he failed to properly vet the guy.
But that's just one incident, compared to a long track putting record of getting mobsters in jail. To you, his long years and hours spent prosecuting mob bosses means nothing. This one incident where he failed to properly vet someone who was mob-tainted, ever so slightly, outweighs all of it. How would you like it if people judged you like that, ignoring all the good you have done and only focusing on your failings?
And I say this as someone who opposes Gulliani in the primary.
Why don’t you look up who is his largest donor in Nevada.
If you can’t find it you could just check the Giuliani truth file.
Hint: It leads back to the same mob family that Kerik had connections with.
Giuliani's top Nevada contributor is Frank Fertitta III. Yes, some of his relatives ran a crime family in the past. His Dad had mob ties (though he wasn't a boss or anything), given that he worked in Vegas before the 1970's. That doesn't mean Frank III is a mobster. Just because a man's Dad or uncles were mobsters doesn't make him one. Some people have accused him of mob ties, but as far as I know, there's no evidence. It's highly unlikely that he has any given that he's the CEO of a major public corporation, and no major public corporation is going to get involved with the mob. The risk of getting slapped with a RICO suit is simply not worth it, and being public makes it virtually impossible to hide mob involvement from the feds. Publicly traded casinos make so much money legally, why would they take the risk of getting in the mob? How could that possibly make any financial sense for them?
As to Kerik having connections with the Fertitta family, I find that highly suspect. He took kickbacks from a construction company with ties to the Gambino family, whose boss, incidentally, Giuliani put in prison when he was a prosecutor. The Fertitta and Gambino families historically have been mortal enemies, so I don't see how you can possibly draw a connection between Kerik and the Fertittas.
A little more digging and you’ll find some suspect deals and business dealings with the Gambino family.
Then you can go back to NY a read about all those that Rooty surrounded himself with that wound up in prison or forced to resign because of criminal dealings and it makes the “crime fighter” label a joke.
If Rooty were to get the nomination the Demonrats would break out a scandal a week until election day.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.