Fwd: Fwd: German companies contributions to US political campaigns - favor Democrats

Interesting.

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Subject:	Fwd: German companies contributions to US political campaigns - favor Democrats
Date:	Fri, 22 Oct 2010 12:06:06 -0500
From:	Blackfive <blackfive@gmail.com>
To:	dick thompson <rhomp2002@earthlink.net>

Got this one from a pal in Germany.  It shows that German companies contributed more to Democrats than Republicans.

A bit behind the timing for President Obama's claim that the Chamber of Commerce is getting a lot of money from overseas for conservative candidates, but the German Paper Die Welt has an interesting story today about monies German companies have given to US candidates:

http://www.welt.de/wirtschaft/article10454960/Deutsche-Firmen-finanzieren-US-Wahlkampf.html

It has an interesting chart that I've attached to this email (hope it comes through ok).

-jwu

Here's the Google translation of the article:

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=http://www.welt.de/wirtschaft/article10454960/Deutsche-Firmen-finanzieren-US-Wahlkampf.html&ei=EbnBTJujGoOglAeJsqm-Cg&sa=X&oi=translate&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBUQ7gEwAA&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dhttp://www.welt.de/wirtschaft/article10454960/Deutsche-Firmen-finanzieren-US-Wahlkampf.html%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26sa%3DG%26prmd%3Div

I don't really know the efficacy of the Welt organization but I checked other regional papers and they are reporting that German companies donated more to liberal campaigns than conservative or tea party campaigns.

So, with respect to foreign contributions from Germany, the Democrats get more...

Matt
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