Politics & Government
Top Donors to 7th District Congressional Campaigns
Congressman Pat Meehan leads in fundraising for his re-election bid.
Seventh District Republican Congressman Pat Meehan has raised about five times as much money in his re-election bid than his Democratic challenger George Badey.
According to the Center for Responsive Politics, a campaign finance organization, Meehan has raised $2,359,293 as of September 30.
Badey has raised $493,001 in the same time period.
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Forty-nine percent of the funds raised by Meehan come from PACs; 48 percent from “large contributions.”
Forty-six percent of the funds raised by Badey come from “large contributions”; 26 percent from “candidate self-financing.”
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The top ten contributors to Meehan's campaign came from:
Cozen O'Connor $25,249 Boeing Co $17,500 Hankin Management $15,000 National Air Traffic Controllers Assn $15,000 Pepper Hamilton LLP $14,750 Conrad O'Brien PC $13,780 Goldman Sachs $13,300 Obermayer, Rebmann et al $11,500 National Realty Corp $11,300 Alston & Bird $11,000The top ten contributors to Badey's campaign came from:
CRP notes that the organizations themselves did not donate, rather the money came from the organizations' PACs, their individual members or employees or owners, and those individuals' immediate families.
Read more fundraising statistics for this race at the Center for Responsive Politics' Web site.
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