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By Michael J. Smith on Thursday November 9, 2006 08:43 PM

The indispensable opensecrets.org has some info on Israel lobby activity during the 2006 cycle. What struck me was that Lobby contributions were way down: $2.3 mil, according to opensecrets' tally, as compared with $6 mil in '04 and $8.4 in '02. Maybe there's some technical issue here that I don't understand?

The fun part was seeing who got the largesse, such as it was. Here's the top 20:

Rank

Candidate

Office

Amount

1

Lieberman, Joe (I-CT)

Senate

$98,500

2

Nelson, Bill (D-FL)

Senate

$92,361

3

Stabenow, Debbie (D-MI)

Senate

$91,795

4

Kyl, Jon (R-AZ)

Senate

$85,750

5

Clinton, Hillary Rodham (D-NY)

Senate

$83,818

6

Kirk, Mark (R-IL)

House

$79,664

7

Nelson, Ben (D-NE)

Senate

$71,000

8

Conrad, Kent (D-ND)

Senate

$68,600

9

Talent, James M (R-MO)

Senate

$66,510

10

Santorum, Rick (R-PA)

Senate

$65,000

11

Menendez, Robert (D-NJ)

Senate

$48,611

12

DeWine, Mike (R-OH)

Senate

$48,000

13

Berkley, Shelley (D-NV)

House

$44,000

14

Ellsworth, Brad (D-IN)

House

$40,500

14

Engel, Eliot L (D-NY)

House

$40,500

16

Lugar, Richard G (R-IN)

Senate

$39,710

17

Hoyer, Steny H (D-MD)

House

$38,250

18

Burns, Conrad (R-MT)

Senate

$37,500

19

Feinstein, Dianne (D-CA)

Senate

$33,500

20

Cantor, Eric (R-VA)

House

$33,000

20

Ros-Lehtinen, Ileana (R-FL)

House

$33,000

Incumbent protection seems to have been a high priority. As far as I could tell, prowling around on the site, democratically designated Democrat Ned Lamont got exactly zero dollars from the Lobby -- that's right, zero; while renegade Joe was top of the pops.

As the Good Book says, Well done, thou good and faithful servant!

Comments (5)

Djur:

That's one of the most impressively odious lists of candidates I've ever seen. Lieberman, both Nelsons, Stabenow, Clinton...

js paine:

but hardky big money in any event

back murtha over stoyer for bela pelosi's number two
and we
get the marine corps
instead of the idf
take your pick

js paine:

talent and burns an either way bronco ride

js paine:


so many losers so many winners
toss the salad one more time and it still stinks of skunk cabbage

Why, you... you... you anti-semite you.

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