| BUSINESSWEEK ONLINE : NOVEMBER 13, 2000 ISSUE | ||||||||
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| GOVERNMENT
Voting with Their Checkbooks Corporate America outdid itself with campaign contributions
during this election season. The major 1,000, which
consists of the thousand largest companies by stock
market value, gave more than $187 million to federal
candidates this cycle, vs. $167 million in the 1996
cycle.
Top 10 Overall Givers
1 MICROSOFT $3,686,781
2 AT&T 3,637,945
3 GOLDMAN SACHS 3,191,123
4 SBC 2,987,765
5 PHILIP MORRIS 2,896,217
6 MBNA 2,291,150
7 VERIZON 2,251,644
8 FEDEX 2,249,528
9 ENRON 2,248,612
10 BELLSOUTH 2,234,179
THE MAJOR 1,000'S TOTAL: $187,312,539
Totals include corporate soft money, PAC money, and
individual hard and soft money
Most Corporate Money to Democrats
TOTAL TO % OF OVERALL
DEMOCRATS GIVING
1 GOLDMAN $2,078,935 65
SACHS
2 MICROSOFT 1,561,274 42
3 AT&T 1,404,838 39
4 SBC 1,399,247 47
5 TIME WARNER 1,023,600 61
6 FREDDIE MAC 993,400 49
7 BELLSOUTH 939,025 42
8 VERIZON 895,139 40
9 FANNIE MAE 780,140 52
10 FEDEX 780,655 35
THE MAJOR 1,000'S TOTAL TO DEMOCRATS: $61,512,265
Most Corporate Money to Republicans
TOTAL TO % OF OVERALL
GOP GIVING
1 PHILIP MORRIS $2,348,977 81
2 AT&T 2,185,509 60
3 MICROSOFT 2,073,062 56
4 MBNA 1,791,410 78
5 BRISTOL-MYERS 1,739,469 85
SQUIBB
6 PFIZER 1,709,355 85
7 SBC 1,552,318 52
8 ENRON 1,541,634 69
9 FEDEX 1,445,254 64
10 UNION PACIFIC 1,385,145 82
THE MAJOR 1,000'S TOTAL TO REPUBLICANS: $119,974,654
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