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Thursday, July 08, 2004

Show me the money!

Here's an oddly interesting site. Campaign endorsements by Hollywood stars and the like are sometimes highly publicised events. But not all celebrities make a big deal out of whom they support on the political front. NewsMeat, using Federal Election Commission data, now allows us to see which campaigns, everyone has donated to.

Stephen King - $10000 to the DNC. And Neko might be happy to hear that Ben Affleck gave $1000 to Kucinich For President. Pierce Brosnan and Lucy Liu both dropped $2000 to John Kerry For President. Aaron Sorkin certainly is generous: $25000 just this year to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.

The list goes on. But I do want to qualify that this wasn’t a deliberate Democrat-roll call. Bush supporters just turned up less often during my random clicking.

2 Comments:

  • At July 10, 2004 at 8:33 AM, Blogger Neko said…

    Go Affleck!
    Go Kucinich! ( the real deal ) unappreciated and marginalised by some media, interested more in . ahh oh well, too long to be a comment...

    anyway,
    DareDevil can't be wrong...
    He's Spidey's lawyer.. woohoo

    no blind jokes btw..
    XP

     
  • At July 14, 2004 at 1:13 AM, Blogger random said…

    bush has his own fair share of supporters, trust me...

    big corporations, the NRA, the christian coalition...
    and these people don't just give money, they get people to vote for Bush too.
    it's just for some wierd reason, hollywood just hates republicans. I never really understood it actually... might have something to do with the McCarthy era.

     

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