CA renter

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[quote=CA renter][quote=no_such_reality]
Lots…[/quote]

More:

1 Finance/Insur/RealEst $142,252,611 37.4% 56.8%
2 Other $93,335,016 53.9% 43.5%
3 Misc Business $89,680,342 44.7% 50.5%
4 Lawyers & Lobbyists $65,644,767 67.0% 32.5%
5 Health $48,228,756 44.0% 55.2%
6 Ideology/Single-Issue $45,391,147 51.7% 46.9%
7 Communic/Electronics $44,925,020 54.0% 31.0%
8 Energy/Nat Resource $31,161,475 22.4% 77.2%
9 Construction $26,004,561 27.7% 59.5%
10 Labor $21,469,557 75.5% 11.5%
11 Agribusiness $20,235,260 29.3% 69.3%
12 Transportation $19,320,906 24.9% 73.2%
13 Defense $8,503,149 38.8% 60.9%

http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/index.php

Unions are nowhere near the big spenders you seem to think they are. It might help explain why the “anti-union” propaganda spewed by the corporatists/capitalists has been gaining so much strength.

Know where you stand.[/quote]

Devil is in the details, I suggest you drill in.

Look at Labor:
Service Employees International Union $1,426,215
Intl Brotherhood of Electrical Workers $1,337,561
Carpenters & Joiners Union $1,039,000
American Fedn of St/Cnty/Munic Employees $1,019,680
Sheet Metal Workers Union $989,500
Communications Workers of America $919,239
Teamsters Union $869,110
National Air Traffic Controllers Assn $856,830
Machinists/Aerospace Workers Union $832,250
Plumbers/Pipefitters Union

Now look at banks…
American Bankers Assn $1,128,500
Bank of America $859,442
JPMorgan Chase & Co $809,746
Wells Fargo $663,973
Independent Community Bankers of America $639,200
Citigroup Inc $628,847

tsk tsk tsk, those poor union are outspending the major banks…

What is other?

Contributor Amount
Harvard University $578,584
Stanford University $369,533
US Government $347,389
John Templeton Foundation $336,000
University of California $330,495
National Community Action Foundation $265,050
US Dept of State $224,357
Dodge Jones Foundation $218,700
Columbia University $200,484
US Senate $193,372
Apollo Group $180,541
Bridgepoint Education $178,712
University of Pennsylvania $155,957
Full Sail $137,300
University of Texas $121,603
State of Texas $115,730
City University of New York $114,526
US Army $113,595
Keiser University $112,810
Yale University

And the univeristies almost are too.