What’s In Your Wallet?

submitted by rachael

Sep 23 2005 — 2:00am

If you are on Forbes magazine’s list of 400 richest Americans it’s money, baby! Eleven Minnesotans made this who’s who list, many of them simply by being born into right bloodlines, dahlin.

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Amy Sep 23 2005
2:09 pm

Just for fun I checked out all of the Minnesota list member’s campaign contributions using Fundrace. Not a big surprise, but all save a couple were either contributors to GW’s campaign or to the RNC (the others didn’t appear in the database). Billionaires for Bush indeed.

I also wish they’d post an accompanying article on the top 400 philanthropists. It would be interesting too see what sort of overlap there is.

Amy Sep 23 2005
2:22 pm

Argh, to see not too see.

srhcb Sep 24 2005
2:44 pm

RE: “I checked out all of the Minnesota list member’s campaign contributions using Fundrace”

MN’s list members aren’t really typical.

Run it for the entire 400, and factor in either the ranking number or estimated net worth total, and there aren’t many conclusions that can be drawn.

Amy Sep 25 2005
4:59 pm

You could be right. I was focusing on Minnesotans because this is posted on a site focusing on MN, a state which has gone Democratic for president in every election since 1960 (except ‘72).

jean Sep 26 2005
12:22 pm

check out opensecrets.org for the best way to search individuals by state and by election cycle. you’d be surprised what you’ll find. query last name only, and it’s usually their wives whose names appear most frequently.