National Legal and Policy Center
Organized Labor Accountability Project
The Top 20 from the Top 20 of 1998
www.nlpc.org
TOP 20 SENATE RECIPIENTS
From the Top 20 Union PACs
|
|
State
|
Candidate
|
Party
|
Note
|
Total Received
|
|
1
|
Nevada
|
Harry Reid
|
D
|
|
$165,500.00
|
|
2
|
Illinois
|
Carol Moseley-Braun
|
D
|
(F)
|
$157,100.00
|
|
3
|
South Dakota
|
Tom Daschle
|
D
|
(1)
|
$149,950.00
|
|
4
|
California
|
Barbara Boxer
|
D
|
(F)
|
$149,100.00
|
|
5
|
North Dakota
|
Byron Dorgan
|
D
|
(F)
|
$145,500.00
|
|
6
|
Missouri
|
Jay Nixon
|
D
|
(C)
|
$142,500.00
|
|
7
|
Washington
|
Patty Murray
|
D
|
(F)
|
$141,950.00
|
|
8
|
Ohio
|
Mary Boyle
|
D
|
(O)
|
$138,500.00
|
|
9
|
Kentucky
|
Scotty Baesler
|
D
|
(O)
|
$137,000.00
|
|
10
|
Oregon
|
Ron Wyden
|
D
|
(F)
|
$127,500.00
|
|
11
|
Georgia
|
Michael Coles
|
D
|
(C)
|
$117,000.00
|
|
12
|
Connecticut
|
Christopher Dodd
|
D
|
|
$110,800.00
|
|
13
|
Maryland
|
Barbara Mikulski
|
D
|
|
$107,350.00
|
|
14
|
Massachusetts
|
Edward Kennedy
|
D
|
(2)
|
$104,000.00
|
|
15
|
Florida
|
Bob Graham
|
D
|
|
$96,500.00
|
|
16
|
Indiana
|
Evan Bayh
|
D
|
(O)
|
$94,500.00
|
|
17
|
South Carolina
|
Ernest Hollings
|
D
|
|
$83,750.00
|
|
18
|
Wisconsin
|
Russ Feingold
|
D
|
(F)
|
$81,000.00
|
|
19
|
Pennsylvania
|
Arlen Specter
|
R
|
|
$76,750.00
|
|
20
|
Arkansas
|
Blache Lambert Lincoln
|
D
|
(O)
|
$64,500.00
|
Source Federal Election Commission; Totals for January 1, 1997 to August
31, 1998.
For back-up data chick here.
Italic denotes challenger (non-incumbent).
Footnotes:
(1) Senate Minority Leader.
(2) Up for Reelection in 2000.
(F) Denotes FRESHMAN (Frist Elected in 1992). But
Ron Wyden won a special election in 1996.
(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.