National Legal and Policy Center
Organized Labor Accountability Project
The Top 20 from the Top 20 of 2000
www.nlpc.org
TOP 20 SENATE RECIPIENTS
From the Top 20 Union PACs
|
|
State
|
Candidate
|
Party
|
Note
|
Total Received
|
|
1
|
Michigan
|
Debbie Stabenow
|
D
|
(C)
|
$173,500.00
|
|
2
|
Rhode Island
|
Robert Weygand
|
D
|
(C)
|
$170,500.00
|
|
3
|
New York
|
Hillary Rodham Clinton
|
D
|
(O)
|
$167,500.00
|
|
3
|
Pennsylvania
|
Ron Klink
|
D
|
(C)
|
$167,500.00
|
|
5
|
Missouri
|
Mel Carnahan
|
D
|
(1)(C)
|
$160,500.00
|
|
6
|
Virginia
|
Charles Robb
|
D
|
|
$146,500.00
|
|
7
|
Montana
|
Brian Schweitzer
|
D
|
(C)
|
$142,000.00
|
|
8
|
Nebraska
|
Ben Nelson
|
D
|
(O)
|
$139,000.00
|
|
9
|
Florida
|
Bill Nelson
|
D
|
(O)
|
$136,000.00
|
|
10
|
Maryland
|
Paul Sarbanes
|
D
|
(2)
|
$124,000.00
|
|
11
|
California
|
Dianne Feinstein
|
D
|
|
$123,000.00
|
|
12
|
Delaware
|
Tom Carper
|
D
|
(C)
|
$122,500.00
|
|
13
|
New Mexico
|
Jeff Bingaman
|
D
|
(3)
|
$120,499.00
|
|
14
|
North Dakota
|
Kent Conrad
|
D
|
|
$117,000.00
|
|
15
|
Indiana
|
David Johnson
|
D
|
(C)
|
$81,500.00
|
|
16
|
West Virginia
|
Robert Byrd
|
D
|
(4)
|
$78,000.00
|
|
17
|
Nevada
|
Ed Bernstein
|
D
|
(O)
|
$77,000.00
|
|
18
|
Hawaii
|
Daniel Akaka
|
D
|
|
$75,000.00
|
|
19
|
Maine
|
Mark Lawrence
|
D
|
(C)
|
$72,500.00
|
|
20
|
New Jersey
|
Robert Torricelli
|
D
|
(5)(F)
|
$55,000.00
|
Source Federal Election Commission; Totals for January 1, 1999 to August
31, 2000.
For back-up data chick on the candidate's name
Italic denotes challenger (non-incumbent).
Footnotes:
(1) Killed in airplane crash on October 16, 2000;
name remains on ballot.
(2) Ranking Member, Banking, Housing, and Urban
Affairs Committee.
(3) Ranking Member, Energy and Natural Resources
Committee.
(4) Ranking Member, Appropriations Committee.
(5) Chairman, Democratic Sentorial Campaign Committee.
Up for reelection in 2002.
(F) Denotes FRESHMAN.
(C) Denotes CHALLENGING an incumbent.
(O) Denotes running for an OPEN seat.
To see the List of the Top 20 Union PACs, from
which these contributions came, click here.
To see the Methodology of how this study was
conducted click here.
To see an Analysis of this data click here.
To return to the index of The Top 20 from the
Top 20 study click here.