Pro-Israel PAC Contributions to 2012 Candidates
ELECTION WATCH By Janet McMahon More Secretive Than Stealth PACs: Super PACs and 501(c)(4)s Financing 2012 Presidential Race ith the exception of a measly W$250 given to former Republi - TOP TEN 2012 AND CAREER RECIPIENTS OF can presidential candidate and self- PRO -I SRAEL PAC F UNDS proclaimed intellectual Newt Gingrich, the two dozen-plus pro-Israel political Compiled by Hugh Galford action committees (PACs) whose con - tributions to 2012 federal candidates HOUSE: CURRENT RACES SENATE: CURRENT RACES are summarized on these pages made no contributions to candidates for the Ros-Lehtinen, Ileana (R-FL) $49,500 Berkley, Shelley (D-NV) $63,500 highest office of all —the presidency of Engel, Eliot L. (D-NY) 31,000 Casey, Robert P., Jr. (D-PA) 60,400 the United States. That this is not an Rothman, Steven R. (D-NJ) 30,000 Cardin, Benjamin L. (D-MD) 55,680 anomaly points to the fact that, as far Hoyer, Steny H. (D-MD) 29,250 Menendez, Robert (D-NJ) 55,000 as Israel is concerned, Congress is Berman, Howard L. (D-CA) 25,500 Klobuchar, Amy J. (D-MN) 45,000 where the action is —at least when it Wasserman-Schultz, Debbie (D-FL) 21,000 McCaskill, Claire (D-MO) 44,500 comes to money. Not only do the for - Lowey, Nita M. (D-NY) 18,000 Nelson, Bill (D-FL) 43,650 eign country’s acolytes in the House Andrews, Robert E. (D-NJ) 16,500 Stabenow, Debbie (D-MI) 39,800 and Senate make sure that Israel re - Smith, D.
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