Because I Can: Blue Dog Dem Leaders and ALEC PAC Money

Tonight when I was driving home from work they were talking about the “Blue Dog Democrats” on the radio. I couldn’t help wonder, Who are these people?

So I went looking for them and I found this

Blue Dog Coalition Leaders

Rep. Heath Shuler; Co-Chair, Administration
Rep. John Barrow; Co-Chair, Policy
Rep. Mike Ross; Co-Chair, Communications
Rep. Dan Boren: Co-Chair, Whip
Rep. Dennis Cardoza
Rep. Jim Matheson

Checked my handy-dandy ALEC list of US Congressman who are ALEC “Alumni” (educated by Koch) and only found one of them on that list. Then I did a web search to see if any of the others were ALEC members – couldn’t find anything.

Then I thought – I’ve got one more list I can look at. Awhile ago I went to http://www.congress.org/ and pulled the PAC money for 5 of the companies on ALEC’s Private Enterprise Board.

I pulled donations

from the ALEC member PAC’s

to candidates of more than $4,999,

for the three election cycles of 2005 – 2010.

My spreadsheet just with 5 companies and donations of over $4,999 is over 2000 rows long.

(I apologize – my research is incomplete, as I have not gone to the candidates page to see if they returned any of this money – someone else can do that.)

And off of my handy dandy little spreadsheet here’s what I have

for the “Blue Dog Coalition Leaders”.

Dennis Cardoza

$5,000 2005-2006 AT&T

$10,000 2007-2008 AT&T

$6,500 2009-2010 AT&T $21,500

Heath Schuler

$8,000 2007-2008 AT&T

$10,250 2007-2008 Pfizer

$10,000 2007-2008 Wal-Mart

$10,000 2009-2010 AT&T

$5,000 2009-2010 Wal-Mart $43,250

John Barrow

$5,000 2005-2006 AT&T

$8,500 2005-2006 Wal-Mart

$11,000 2007-2008 AT&T

$5,000 2007-2008 Koch

$7,750 2007-2008 Pfizer

$6,000 2007-2008 UPS

$10,000 2007-2008 Wal-Mart

$10,000 2009-2010 AT&T

$7,627 2009-2010 Pfizer

$6,500 2009-2010 UPS

$7,500 2009-2010 Wal-Mart $84,877

Mike Ross

$10,000 2005-2006 Wal-Mart

$9,000 2007-2008 AT&T

$7,000 2007-2008 UPS

$6,000 2007-2008 Wal-Mart

$10,000 2009-2010 AT&T

$10,000 2009-2010 Koch

$7,500 2009-2010 Wal-Mart

$7,500 2009-2010 Wal-Mart $119,000

Dan Boren – ALEC Alumni

$9,000 2005-2006 AT&T

$5,000 2005-2006 Koch

$6,000 2005-2006 UPS

$6,500 2007-2008 AT&T

$10,000 2007-2008 Koch

$10,000 2007-2008 UPS

$10,000 2007-2008 Wal-Mart

$10,000 2009-2010 AT&T

$8,500 2009-2010 Koch

$6,500 2009-2010 UPS

$10,000 2009-2010 Wal-Mart $91,500

Jim Matheson (aka James Matheson, James David Matheson)

(this guy walks like a duck, talks like a duck, smells like a duck -

if you know what I mean, but I can't prove it)

$14,000 2005-2006 Koch

$10,500 2005-2006 Pfizer

$10,500 2005-2006 UPS

$10,000 2005-2006 Wal-Mart

$10,000 2007-2008 AT&T

$10,000 2007-2008 Koch

$10,252 2007-2008 Pfizer

$10,000 2007-2008 UPS

$8,000 2007-2008 Wal-Mart

$10,000 2009-2010 AT&T

$9,000 2009-2010 Pfizer

$10,000 2009-2010 UPS

$8,000 2009-2010 Wal-Mart

$8,000 2009-2010 Wal-Mart $390,756

Oh, my…………………………..

Because I Can

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