Just compare the list of leading soft money donors and the donor list to Gray Davis.
The reality is in the FACTS of who is donating to Gray.
Take a look at the list of soft money donors from "opensecrets.org".
Here's an interesting list of the biggest soft money donors. These guys really kick around big money!
Rank /Organization /Total /to Dems /to Repubs
1 Saban Entertainment $7,725,000 $7,725,000 $0
2 Shangri-La Entertainment $5,025,000 $5,025,000 $0
3 Propel $2,288,786 $2,288,786 $0
4 Global Crossing $949,235 $645,000 $304,235
5 Ameriquest Mortgage $730,000 $730,000 $0
6 Chartwell Partners $725,000 $0 $725,000
7 Louise Gund Foundation $553,000 $553,000 $0
8 Shorenstein Co $550,000 $550,000 $0
9 Metabolife $510,000 $360,000 $150,000
10 ChevronTexaco $426,300 $0 $426,300
11 Eldred Enterprises $421,100 $0 $421,100
12 Paul's TV & Video $405,000 $405,000 $0
13 AG Spanos Companies $356,607 $0 $356,607
14 Northrop Grumman $350,650 $42,000 $308,650
15 Freeman, Spogli & Co $291,702 $0 $291,702
************************************ Now, look at the list of leading donors to Gray Davis' gubernatorial campaign.
Here's a list of Davis' Mega donors (with the amounts)
CCPOA PAC, Sacramento, $251,000
SEIU PEA International, Washington DC, $250,000
Laborer's Political League, Washington DC, $250,000
Democratic Governor's Association, Wash DC, $200,000
Democratic Governor's Association, Wash DC, $200,000
IBEW Educational Committee, Wash DC, $150,000
CA State Pipe Trades Council PAC, Sacramento, $150,000
CA State Council of Laborers PAC, Sacramento, $150,000
SEIU PEA International, Wash DC, $150,000
Stanford Financial Group Co., Houston TX, $100,000
Auburn Manor Holding Corp, Rocklin CA, $100,000
AKT Development Corporation, Sacramento, $100,000
SEIU PEA Internationa, Wash DC, $100,000
American Federation of State, County, Municipal Employees, Wash DC, $100,000
Girardi and Keese, Los Angeles, $100,000
Eli Broad, Los Angeles, $100,000
Reed Hastings, Santa Cruz, $100,000
Robinson, Calcagnie & Robinson, Inc., Newport Beach, $100,000
Reed Hastings, Santa Cruz, $100,000
Greene, Broillet, Taylor, Wheeler & Panish, Santa Monica, $100,000
Stephen Bing, Los Angeles, $100,000
Emergency Medical PAC, Sacramento, $100,000
Casden Properties, Beverly Hills, $100,000
Jerry Perenchio, Los Angeles, $100,000
Law Offices of Robinson, Calcagnie & Robinson, Inc, Newport Beach, $100,000
Cause 1M Governor's Fund, Sacramento, $100,000
Martin J. Wygod, Rancho Santa Fe, $100,000
State Building & Construction Trades Council of California, Sacramento, $100,000
Stephen L. Bing, Los Angeles, $100,000
Casden Properties, Beverly Hills, $100,000
IBPAT PAC, Washington DC, $100,000
Steve Beneto, Jr., West Sacramento, $100,000
Tip Educational Fund- Here International Union, Washington DC, $100,000
AFSCME PAC, Washington DC, $100,000
Stephen L. Bing, Los Angeles, $100,000
Jerry Perenchio, Los Angeles, $100,000
Fox Group, Los Angeles, $100,000
Pacific Hospital, Long Beach, $80,000
Operating Engeineers Local $3 Statewide PAC, Alameda, $75,000
Tutor-Saliba Corp., Sylmar, $75,000
CA Cable Television Association, Oakland, $75,000
Intenrational Association of Fire Fighters, Washington DC, $75,000
West Coast Surgery Center Management Inc., Long Beach, $70,000
Rumsey Indian Rancheria, Brooks, $65,000
AMGEN, Thousand Oaks, $65,000
Operating Engineers Local #3 Statewide PAC, Alameda, $60,000
Operating Engineers Local #3 Statewide PAC, Alameda, $60,000 (editor's note: this is not a typo. it's in the database twice)
Haim Saban, non-monetary gift of $52,693
Bicycle Club Casino, Bell Gardens, $50,000
Yucaipa Companies, LLC, Los Angeles, $50,000
Other interesting contributors
MBNA Corporation Federal PAC, $50,000
Walt Disney Company $50,000
Microsoft Corporation, $22,500 (ed. note: Split into two different contributions that I see)
Avis, Virginia Beach, $25,000
Worldcom, Arlington VA, $10,000
America On Line, $10,000
Bernard Schwartz, $10,000
Blue Cross of California, $2500, $5000, $5000, $5000, $5000, $10,000, $20,000
Blue Shield of California, $2500, $5000, $5000, $5000, $5000, $5,000, $10,000
BP AMOCO, $5000, $25000, $25000, $25000
Budget Rent-A-Car of So. Cal. (ed. note: Aren't they also filed for bankruptcy protection?), $1000
CIGNA Healthcare of California, Inc., Glendale, $1,000, $5000, $6000, $10,000, $10,000, $15,000, $20,000
Citigroup, New York, $500, $1650, $2398.82, $3114, $10,000, $15,000, $50,000
anyways, that's probably enough for tonight.
Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians $50,000
Haim Saban (monetary gift), $50,000
TOTAL OUT OF STATE CONTRIBUTIONS= $5,897.057.36
COPS GET $25 MILLION IN SEIZED DRUG CASH WINDFALL FOR MONROE SHERIFF (FLORIDA )
Monroe's big payday comes from the $50 million surrendered in 1997 by ex-smuggler Paul Edward Hindelang, formerly of Fort Lauderdale and Miami, who has subsequently become a legitimate millionaire pay-telephone entrepreneur.
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Hindelang helped pioneer the so-called "mother ship" marijuana smuggling technique that revolutionized the illicit trade that dominated South Florida's underground economy in the mid-to-late 1970s. A "mother ship" freighter carrying up to 180,000 pounds of marijuana would be unloaded at sea by a fleet of 50-foot fishing vessels, which would relay the drugs to smaller craft that blended in with recreational boaters for the trip ashore.
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The harder part for Hindelang was making a clean breast of the past he had so successfully concealed from his teenaged children, neighbors in the exclusive enclave he developed in Santa Barbara and business partners. The board of directors at Pacific Coin, the company Hindelang founded with a handful of pay phones in some of Southern California's grittiest communities, fired their CEO in December 1998, shortly after the forfeiture case became public in South Florida.