{"id":4428,"date":"2008-03-04T23:16:51","date_gmt":"2008-03-05T03:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/?p=4428"},"modified":"2009-01-07T17:27:39","modified_gmt":"2009-01-07T21:27:39","slug":"4428","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2008\/03\/4428\/","title":{"rendered":"A Sample Of Mormon Donors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mormons contributed to Mitt Romney&#8217;s campaign over the past year and half in some pretty eye-popping numbers (see, e.g.,  <a href=\"http:\/\/deseretnews.com\/article\/1,5143,695249525,00.html\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601070&#038;sid=agdQ3J8UxyIU&#038;refer=home\">here<\/a>).  As such, I decided to comb through the campaign finance contribution records to see who exactly some prominent Mormons were donating to this past election cycle. <!--more--> Needless to say, there were <a href=\"http:\/\/www.utahpublicradio.org\/media\/Opera\/Michael%20Ballam.jpg\">a few<\/a> fun finds. To clarify the results, if anyone gave to a particular candidate on several occasions, I combined them all. Federal law limits individual contributions to each candidate to $2,300 for the primary cycle and $2,300 for the general election. If a single person is listed as giving $4,600 to one candidate, they likely contributed to both his or her primary and general election funds. And, finally, only contributions of at least $200 are a matter of public record.  Question is, did I miss <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/indivs\/index.asp\">anyone<\/a> interesting?<\/p>\n<p>[<em>Note &#8211; I&#8217;ve added noteworthy finds mentioned in the comments to this list if the donors gave during this cycle<\/em>]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Danny and Michelle Ainge <\/strong>(MA)  &#8211; <em>VP of Operations for the Boston Celtics  <\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> $4,600 Mitt Romney (R)  <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Alan and Karen Ashton<\/strong> (UT) &#8211; <em>Founders of Wordperfect and Thanksgiving Point<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>$4,200 Mitt Romney (R) <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Michael Ballam<\/strong> (UT) &#8211;<em> Opera Singer\/Music Professor<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> $250 Mitt Romney (R) <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Norm Bangerter <\/strong> (UT) &#8211;<em> Former Governor of Utah<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> $500 Mitt Romney (R) <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Ken Bowler <\/strong>(MD) &#8211; <em>Lobbyist for the LDS Church<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>$2,300\tGordon Smith (R)\n<\/li>\n<li> $1,000 Searchlight Leadership Fund (Sen. Harry Reid\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s (D) PAC)\n<\/li>\n<li> $3,300 Judith Feder (D) <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Patrick Byrne <\/strong>(UT) &#8211; <em>CEO of Overstock.com<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>$2,300\tGordon Smith (R)\n<\/li>\n<li> $5,000 Campaign for America\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Future PAC\n<\/li>\n<li> $2,300 Mitt Romney (R)\n<\/li>\n<li> $2,300 Rudy Giuliani (R) <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Elder John Carmack <\/strong>(UT) &#8211; <em>First Quorum of the Seventy<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> $500 Mitt Romney (R)  <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>David and Deborah Checketts <\/strong>(CT) &#8211; <em>Chairman of Sports Capital Partners (Former president and GM Utah Jazz and New York Knicks, and CEO of Madison Square Garden)<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> $4,600\tRudy Giuliani (R) <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Aileen H. Clyde<\/strong> (UT) &#8211; <em>Former 2nd Counselor in the General Relief Society Presidency<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>$250 Democratic National Committee<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Sandra and Stephen Covey<\/strong> (UT) &#8211; <em>Author, Motivational Speaker, and Homemaker<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>$9,200\tMitt Romney (R)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Elder Robert K. Dellenbach <\/strong> (UT) &#8211; <em>First Quorum of the Seventy<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>$400 Mitt Romney (R)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Ty Detmer <\/strong>(TX) &#8211;<em> Retired NFL Quarterback<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>$2,000\tMitt Romney (R)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Sheri Dew<\/strong> (UT) &#8211; <em>CEO of Deseret Book (Former Counselor in General Relief Society Presidency) <\/em>\t<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>$2,300\tMitt Romney (R)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Jackie Dodd <\/strong> (CT) &#8211; <em>Wife of former presidential candidate Sen. Chris Dodd<\/em>\t<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>$4,600\tChris Dodd (D)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Rulon Gardner <\/strong>(UT) &#8211; <em>Olympic Champion Greco-Roman Wrestler<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>$4,600\tMitt Romney (R)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Tom Holmoe<\/strong> (UT) &#8211; <em>BYU Athletic Director (Former Football Coach of the U. of California) \t<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>$250 Mitt Romney (R)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Jon Huntsman, Sr. <\/strong> (UT) &#8211; <em>CEO and Chairman of Huntsman Chemicals \t<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>$2,300\tMax Baucus (D)\n<\/li>\n<li>$2,300\tMax Baucus (D)\n<\/li>\n<li>$28,500 National Republican Senatorial Committee\n<\/li>\n<li>$2,300\tMitt Romney (R) <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Karen Huntsman<\/strong> (UT) &#8211; <em>Huntsman LLC, VP, Homemaker<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>$28,500\tNational Republican Senatorial Committee\n<\/li>\n<li>$28,500 Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee\n<\/li>\n<li>$2,300 Max Baucus (D)\n<\/li>\n<li>$4,600 John McCain (R)\n<\/li>\n<li>$2,300\tMitt Romney (R)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Jon Huntsman Jr. and Mary Kaye Huntsman<\/strong> (UT) &#8211; Governor and First Lady of Utah<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>$4,600\tJohn McCain (R)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Matthew and Dena Kennedy <\/strong>(UT) &#8211; <em>CEOs of LDS Living<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>$4,600\tMitt Romney (R)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Norma Matheson <\/strong>(UT) &#8211; <em>Wife of former Utah Governor Scott Matheson<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>$4,600 Jim Matheson (D)\n<\/li>\n<li>$500 Hillary Clinton (D)\n<\/li>\n<li>$750 Democratic Committee of Utah<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Scott Matheson, Jr. <\/strong> (UT) &#8211; <em>U of U Law Professor and former Utah gubernatorial candidate<\/em> <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>$500 Hillary Clinton (D)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Keith Merrill<\/strong> (CA) &#8211; <em>Film Director <\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>$700 Mitt Romney (R)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Johnny Miller<\/strong> (UT) &#8211; <em>NBC Golf Analyst <\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>$2,300\tMitt Romney (R)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Dale Murphy <\/strong>(UT) &#8211; <em>Retired Atlanta Braves Baseball Player<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>$2,100\tMitt Romney (R)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>David Neeleman<\/strong> (CT) &#8211; <em>Founder and former CEO of Jet Blue <\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>$5,000 Searchlight Leadership Fund (Sen. Harry Reid\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s PAC)\n<\/li>\n<li>$2,000\tRobert Menendez (D)\n<\/li>\n<li>$1,000\tDick Durbin (D)\n<\/li>\n<li>$500 James Oberstar (D)\n<\/li>\n<li>$500 John Mica (R)\n<\/li>\n<li>$2,300\tMitt Romney (R)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Norman Newrow<\/strong> (UT) &#8211; <em>Well-known Accounting Professor at BYU<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>$2,300 Mitt Romney (R)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Alan Osmond <\/strong>(UT) &#8211; <em>Former member of the Osmond Brothers. Entertainment mogul in Utah<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>$2,300 Mitt Romney (R)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Janice Kapp Perry <\/strong>(UT) &#8211; <em>Musician and Composer<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>$250 Mitt Romney (R)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Andy and Tammy Reid <\/strong>(PA) &#8211; <em>Coach of the Philadelphia Eagles and Homemaker<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>$4,600 Mitt Romney (R)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Kevin Rollins <\/strong>(TX) &#8211; <em>Former CEO of Dell Inc.<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>$2,300\tMitt Romney (R)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Blake Roney <\/strong> (UT) &#8211; <em>Chairman of Nu Skin <\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>$4,600 Mitt Romney (R)\n<\/li>\n<li>$25,000 National Republican Senatorial Committee\n<\/li>\n<li>$2,000 Jason Chaffetz (R)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Elder Richard G. Scott<\/strong> (UT) &#8211; <em>Apostle for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>$1,100\tNational Republican Senatorial Committee\n<\/li>\n<li>$2,250\tMitt Romney (R)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Mark Shurtleff <\/strong>(UT) &#8211; <em>Attorney General of Utah<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>$2,300\tJohn McCain (R)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>James Sorenson<\/strong> (UT) &#8211;<em>Late billionaire philanthropist<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>$4,400\tMitt Romney (R)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Laurel Ulrich<\/strong> (MA) &#8211; <em>Pulitzer-Prize Winning Professor at Harvard University<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>$500 Katrina Swett (D)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Jennifer Wilson<\/strong> (UT) &#8211; <em>SLC Councilwoman\/SLC Mayoral candidate<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> $1,000 Hillary Clinton (D) <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mormons contributed to Mitt Romney&#8217;s campaign over the past year and half in some pretty eye-popping numbers (see, e.g., here and here). As such, I decided to comb through the campaign finance contribution records to see who exactly some prominent Mormons were donating to this past election cycle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corn"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4428"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5203,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4428\/revisions\/5203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}