[EL] 2012 presidential spending by corps and unions

[Beckel, Michael]

Here at the Center for Public Integrity, we did a joint analysis with the Center for Responsive Politics that focused strictly on donors to super PACs. We found that companies had contributed about $75 million to super PACs from their treasuries, while unions contributed about $60 million, through Oct. 17th. Overall, super PACs collectively raised about $660 million through that date.

That investigation can be found here:
http://www.publicintegrity.org/2012/11/02/11689/mystery-firm-elections-top-corporate-donor-53-million

Seconding what Rick said, both the Center for Responsive Politics and Sunlight Foundation would be good places to look for more detailed numbers.

Sincerely,
Michael Beckel
Reporter
Center for Public Integrity

-----Original Message-----
From: law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu [mailto:law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu] On Behalf Of Rick Hasen
Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2012 12:17 PM
To: john.k.tanner at gmail.com
Cc: law-election at UCI.edu; Reuben, Richard C.
Subject: Re: [EL] 2012 presidential spending by corps and unions

Here's a great place to start:

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


On 11/13/12 9:15 AM, john.k.tanner at gmail.com wrote:
> I am interested in those figures as well Sent from my Verizon Wireless 
> BlackBerry
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Reuben, Richard C." <ReubenR at missouri.edu>
> Sender: law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu
> Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 16:26:24
> To: Rick Hasen<rhasen at law.uci.edu>; 
> law-election at UCI.edu<law-election at uci.edu>
> Subject: [EL] 2012 presidential spending by corps and unions
>
> _______________________________________________
> Law-election mailing list
> Law-election at department-lists.uci.edu
> http://department-lists.uci.edu/mailman/listinfo/law-election

--
Rick Hasen
Chancellor's Professor of Law and Political Science UC Irvine School of Law
401 E. Peltason Dr., Suite 1000
Irvine, CA 92697-8000
949.824.3072 - office
949.824.0495 - fax
rhasen at law.uci.edu
http://law.uci.edu/faculty/page1_r_hasen.html
http://electionlawblog.org
Now available: The Voting Wars: http://amzn.to/y22ZTv

_______________________________________________
Law-election mailing list
Law-election at department-lists.uci.edu
http://department-lists.uci.edu/mailman/listinfo/law-election