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Top 10 Contributors to Hillary Clinton's 2006 Senate Race
Compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics

This list of the top donors to Hillary Clinton’s 2006 re-election campaign, compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics and made available on the organization’s website, www.OpenSecrets.org, is based on the most recent Federal Election Commission data available. According to the center, “the organizations themselves did not donate, rather the money came from the organization's PAC, its individual members or employees or owners, and those individuals' immediate families. Organization totals include subsidiaries and affiliates.” The center also notes that “typically, members of Congress draw their contributions from two main sources: PACs and lobbyists who give because of the member's position on key congressional committees, and local companies, unions and other organizations from their home district.”

10. Ernst & Young: $73,775
1285 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10019
212-773-3000

9. New York Life Insurance: $86,000
51 Madison Avenue
Suite 3200
New York, NY 10010
212-576-7000

8. International Profit Associates: $88,400
1250 Barclay Blvd
Buffalo Grove, IL 60089
847-808-5590

7. Skadden, Arps et al: $90,030
Four Times Square
New York, NY 10036
212-735-3000

6. Time Warner: $104,960
One Time Warner Center
New York, NY 10019
212-484-8000

5. Morgan Stanley: $105,810
1585 Broadway
New York, NY 10036
212-761-4000

4. Corning, Inc.: $133,400
One Riverfront Plaza
Corning, NY 14831
607-974-9000

3. Citigroup, Inc.: $141,000
399 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10043
800-285-3000

2. Metropolitan Life: $154,100
One MetLife Plaza
27-01 Queens Plaza N.
Long Island City, NY 11101
212-578-2211

1. Goldman Sachs: $168,290
85 Broad Street
New York, NY 10004
212-902-1000 

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10. Sen. Daniel Inouye. The 82-year-old Hawaii Democrat was accused in the 1990s by numerous women of sexual harassment. Democrats cast doubt on the allegations and the Senate Ethics Committee dropped its investigation.

9. Former Rep. Gus Savage. The Illinois Democrat was accused of fondling a Peace Corps volunteer in 1989 while on a trip to Africa. The House Ethics Committee decided against disciplinary action in 1990.

8. Rep. Barney Frank. The outspoken Massachusetts Democrat hired a male prostitute who ran a prostitution service from Frank’s residence in the 1980s. Only two Democrats in the House of Representatives voted to censure him in 1990.

7. Former Sen. Brock Adams. The late Washington Democrat was forced to stop campaigning after numerous accusations of drugging, assault and rape, the first surfacing in 1988.

6. Former Rep. Fred Richmond. This New York Democrat was arrested in 1978 for soliciting sex from a 16-year-old. He remained in Congress and won re-election—before eventually resigning in 1982 after pleading guilty to tax evasion and drug possession.

5. Former Rep. John Young. The late Texas Democrat increased the salary of a staffer after she gave in to his sexual advances. The congressman won re-election in 1976 but lost two years later.

4. Former Rep. Wayne Hays. The late Ohio Democrat hired an unqualified secretary reportedly for sexual acts. Although he resigned from Congress, the Democratic House leadership stalled in removing him from the Administration Committee in 1976.

3. Former Rep. Gerry Studds. He was censured for sexual relationship with underage male page in 1983. Massachusetts voters returned him to office for six more terms.

2. Former Rep. Mel Reynolds. The Illinois Democrat was convicted of 12 counts of sexual assault with a 16-year-old. President Bill Clinton pardoned him before leaving office.

1. Sen. Teddy Kennedy. The liberal Massachusetts senator testified in defense of nephew accused of rape, invoking his family history to win over the jury in 1991.

savetheaclu.org ...Over the past three years, these breaches of principle include the ACLU’s approval of grant agreements that restrict speech and associational rights; efforts by management to impose gag rules on staff and to subject staff to email surveillance; a proposal to bar ACLU board members from publicly criticizing the ACLU; and informal campaigns to purge the ACLU of its internal critics.

All of these breaches, as well as others, violate the ACLU’s historic commitment to free speech. We take little comfort from the fact that some were reversed after bad publicity and donor complaints.

We reject the claim that the ACLU is injured not by its unprincipled, anti-libertarian actions, but by those who disclosed or criticized them. Repeated breaches of principle by the ACLU leadership have been fundamental and cannot simply be attributed to isolated lapses in judgment: they reflect basic disrespect for the values that the ACLU was created to defend.

This has gone on for so long, and has become so pervasive, that we now believe that only a change in leadership will preserve the ACLU and insure its future as the nation’s leading civil liberties group.

This is a redo of a previous article but I still mean it Hugo Chavez doesn't like me. He used a racial slur to describe me and anybody else who is white and lives in North America and has any kind of Celebration on Halloween. I have a couple of problems with that. One is that I think that he should take his raciest ass dictatorship and piss up a rope. I hope he knows that I will buy a hybrid car in his honor. I hope he eats shit and dies and I don't care if Pat Robertson sends a Hit squad down and busta cap in his face. I love all of the people of Venezuela, even the commies that live there. I really wish harm and ill will upon their tin horn dictator. When he makes these stupid statements I hope that they all know that he is a moron and he is wasting all of the money that should be going to their country and sending it too his own bank accounts and to equally stupid dictators around the world there by making the whole world a more dangerous place. I think the thing that made him spew this was his anger over some of his citizens making fun of him by putting his name on scary skeletons and ghouls for a little bit of fun. This is because he is scarring them with all of the human rights he is violating in order prop up his regime and he really doesn’t understand the free speech thing too much with him being a dictator and all. Not a dictator you say? Freely elected you say well so was Hitler you stupid hippy. Get real. The difference between America and some bandanna republic is you can go anywhere and make fun of the president or say something mean about him and you won’t get thrown in jail or get your head beat in by homeland security. You may lose some album sales and people may walk out of your Vegas show but you can say what ever you please even if it is stupid. I hope you will read his comments below. President Hugo Chavez cautioned Venezuelan parents to protect their children from Halloween with a spooky warning that the US tradition is rooted in "terrorism." "What they have implanted here, which is really a 'gringo' custom, is terrorism," Chavez said, quoted in the local press. "They disguise children as witches and wizards, that is contrary to our culture." Chavez often lashes out at the US government, which he has described as "terrorist" and accused of plotting his assassination. But this time his warnings were directed at the American celebration that combines costumes and candy. He issued "an appeal for reflection by parents" not to encourage their children to dress up for the holiday. His comments came after authorities in Caracas recently seized pumpkins, cardboard skeleton costumes and other traditional Halloween items inscribed with anti-Chavez messages. US families were celebrating Halloween, during which disguised children go door to door saying "trick or treat," on Monday.