Top 20 Contributors to Ron Paul Campaign US Army - $68,817 US Navy - $57,076 US Air Force - $52,371 Google Inc - $51,382 Microsoft Corp - $46,079 US Postal Service - $31,054 Lockheed Martin - $26,754 Boeing Co - $24,388 At&T Inc - $22,398 IBM Corp - $19,177 Verizon Communications - $18,399 Hewlett-Packard - $18,014 Apple Inc - $17,314 Intel Corp - $16,751 Northrop Grumman - $16,067 General Electric - $15,788 General Dynamics - $15,584 Cisco Systems - $14,702 US Dept of Defense - $14,338 Wachovia Corp - $14,231 Source: http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/contrib.asp?id=N00005906&cycle=2008
Holy Cow! Look at all of the special interest money! Those damned armed forces have their meat hooks into him!
I always wonder what these numbers mean, I didn't know companies themselves could give money, does that mean the dollar amounts you see are just the collective donations from individuals working for those entities? If yes, I don't see the big deal.
Yes, that's what it means... I suppose it's interesting to see what kind of people are donating to a particular campaign... but yeah it doesn't mean the corps themselves are giving him money. I have a hard time imagining Lockheed Martin directly sending Ron Paul money... It's quite interesting that some of their employees are giving him money though...
wow, what a bunch of wasted money! Furthermore, here is McCains....see any of the same companies? With bigger contributions?? Merrill Lynch $155,950 Citigroup Inc $153,362 Blank Rome LLP $141,401 Greenberg Traurig LLP $130,587 Goldman Sachs $85,252 Univision Communications $82,000 IDT Corp $79,250 Bank of New York Mellon $74,000 Bridgewater Assoc $72,100 MGM Mirage $70,400 Irvine Co Apartment Community $66,100 JP Morgan Chase & Co $65,485 Credit Suisse Group $65,000 Pinnacle West Capital $64,000 Lehman Brothers $63,450 Wachovia Corp $58,675 Cisco Systems $56,650 Morgan Stanley $55,701 Blackstone Group $47,950 MacAndrews & Forbes $45,000
rarely do financial institutions waste their investments. I bet Obama and Hillary are also getting good sized amounts from these institutions also.
Yep, they are....but I find it funny that Paul has pretty much quit his campaign and is focusing on his congressional seat, yet all the paulistas still think he can win....lol!
My husband thinks Ron Paul is the greatest thing since sliced bread. I am really not sure. I saw those figures and showed them to my husband. He said those monies were contributed by private individuals in each of those organizations.
Paul has not quit his campaign. But he needs to hold his seat in Texas at the very least. Whether Paul can win the nomination or not remains to be seen.
That is a wee bit optimistic. There is a certain irony in that Ron Paul supporters are so negative about America, our economy, our prospects. Yet, when talking about Ron Paul's prospects they all seem to wear rose colored glasses.
It's already been seen, he is done. It's "impossible" for him to get the delegates he needs, he has what... 16?
I am realistic. My goal is to get more people aware of Ron Paul and pro Ron Paul politicians and just focus on voting them into their respective offices. What RP has started wont bo gone just because he didnt become president in 2008. Like guerilla has stated many times , this has only just begun. Another 4 years of obama and the american public might even start making their voices heard about all this delegate bs and who counts the votes.
Well, most Paul supporters are not hoping for socialism, deficit spending, undeclared wars, or government secrecy. We might be hoping for different things. Based on what methodology for calculating delegates?