{"id":3762,"date":"2008-09-25T16:08:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-25T22:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/09\/whos-getting-cash-from-companies-in-crisis\/"},"modified":"2008-09-25T16:08:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-25T22:08:00","slug":"whos-getting-cash-from-companies-in-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/09\/whos-getting-cash-from-companies-in-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Who’s getting cash from companies in crisis?"},"content":{"rendered":"

With all the news about financial meltdown and government bailouts of companies, I thought it might be interesting to know how much money members of New Mexico<\/st1:place><\/st1:state>\u2019s congressional delegation had taken from some of the companies at the center of the crisis.<\/p>\n

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So I went to OpenSecrets.org<\/a> to see what I could find. The bottom line: It appears that New Mexico<\/st1:place><\/st1:state>\u2019s members of Congress haven\u2019t taken nearly as much over the years from these companies as some other Democrats and Republicans. Here\u2019s a breakdown:<\/p>\n

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The money-in-politics Web site lists contributions since 1989 from employees and political action committees tied to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac<\/a> to each member of Congress. According to the site, Sen. Pete Domenici<\/a> has received $16,226, Rep. Steve Pearce<\/a> has received $5,000, Sen. Jeff Bingaman<\/a> has received $3,000, Rep. Heather Wilson<\/a> has received $1,250 and Rep. Tom Udall<\/a> has received nothing.<\/p>\n

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According to the Web site, PACs tied to and employees of Lehman Brothers have given to each member of the delegation<\/a> during the current election cycle. Since 2007, Domenici has received $4,000, Bingaman has received $3,500, Wilson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> has received $3,312, Pearce has received $2,800 and Udall has received $400. In addition, going back to 1997, Lehman Brothers\u2019 PAC<\/a> has given an additional $1,000 to Bingaman and $500 to Wilson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>.<\/p>\n

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AIG, according to the Web site, hasn\u2019t given as much<\/a> to New Mexico<\/st1:place><\/st1:state>\u2019s congressional delegation. Since 1989, PACs tied to and employees of the company have given $4,000 to Domenici and $2,000 to Bingaman, but nothing to Pearce, Udall and Wilson.<\/p>\n

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Then there\u2019s Bear Sterns. Going back to 1997, the company\u2019s PAC hasn\u2019t given money<\/a> to any current member of the New Mexico<\/st1:place><\/st1:state> delegation, according to OpenSecrets.org.<\/p>\n

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The numbers are current as of Sept. 2.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With all the news about financial meltdown and government bailouts of companies, I thought it might be interesting to know how much money members of New Mexico\u2019s congressional delegation had taken from some of the companies at the center of the crisis. So I went to OpenSecrets.org to see what I could find. The bottom […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}