Abramoff: Who Got What
posted by Ace Ace of Spades HQ
"Most closely linked to Republicans:
National Republican Congressional Cmte -- $498,000 Democratic Congressional Campaign Cmte -- $354,700
A difference of $143,300, or 29.3%. Democrats received 71.2% of the money Republicans did.
National Republican Senatorial Cmte -- $436,500 Democratic Senatorial Campaign Cmte -- $423,480
A difference of $13,020, or 2.98%. Democrats received 97.01% of the money Republicans did.
(As regards the congressional committees, that is.)
There's a much bigger difference between the donations to the RNC (around $326,000) and the DNC ($65,720), but then, the Democrats are out of power. Certainly the differences between the amounts given to the parties' congressional and senatorial campagin committees are not vast, especially not considering there are more Republican Congressmen and Senators, and they control, nominally, the Congress.
Eyeballing it, individual Republican recipients outnumbered individual Democratic ones by about a 3:2 ratio, but that sure seems pretty much a bipartisan scandal to me.
Seems to me like Abramoff spread out his largesse pretty evenly.
And yet "even Democrats... are panicking."
Thanks to Andrew's Dad.
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