Hall of Fame
Loretta Lynn ($4,300)
Sally Field ($27,600)
Gil Cates ($18,200)
Jim Lampley ($5,125)
Peter Farrelly ($80,900)
Itzhak Perlman ($11,000)
Frank Oz ($1,200)
Anne Heche ($1,000)
Jeffrey Wright ($8,900)
J J Abrams ($136,900)
Magic Johnson ($38,800)
Sanjay Gupta ($8,200)
Doris Kearns Goodwin ($1,400)
Bill Romanowski ($250)
Denise Rich ($1,161,600)
Jamie Lee Curtis ($26,978)
Christie Brinkley ($96,560)
Jon Cryer ($3,300)
John Davidson ($550)
Donna Mills ($32,175)
Tyra Banks ($6,500)
Dennis Quaid ($4,200)
Olivia Wilde ($250)
Larry Mize ($2,250)
Paul Azinger ($4,700)
Billy Baldwin ($18,650)
Roger Staubach ($145,712)
Mike Helton ($55,890)
Richard Petty ($21,450)
Kate Walsh ($3,050)
Lawrence Bender ($61,550)
Madeleine Stowe ($2,800)
David McCullough ($7,000)
Les Charles ($294,750)
Trisha Yearwood ($3,000)
David Toms ($2,000)
Suzanne Vega ($3,200)
Julianna Margulies ($1,750)
Diedrich Bader ($3,000)
Tim McGraw ($7,500)
Elmore Leonard ($3,950)
Tim McCarver ($500)
Garrison Keillor ($67,653)
Lucy Liu ($2,500)
Spike Jonze ($6,500)
Lauren Bacall ($2,000)
Chuck Barris ($16,500)
Gary Cole ($2,800)
Lawrence Kudlow ($41,077)
Mel Brooks ($18,300)
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Hall of Fame ► Business Executives
Michael Sears former Boeing cfo; corporate criminal
NEWS MEAT
370
Election Picks: 8 wins, 4 losses
$11,000 Republican $3,500 Democrat $630 special interest total: $15,130
Contributor
Candidate or PAC
Election
Amount
Date
FEC
Sears, Michael Mr. 61340 - $300 primary 10/28/05 SEARS, MICHAEL 60045 Christopher (Kit) Bond (R)Won $500 general 09/09/03 SEARS, MICHAEL 60045 Christopher (Kit) Bond (R)Won $500 primary 09/09/03 SEARS, MICHAEL 60045 Christopher (Kit) Bond (R)Won $1,500 primary 03/25/03 SEARS, MICHAEL 63122 - $210 primary 01/26/02 SEARS, MICHAEL 63122 - $210 primary 12/22/01 SEARS, MICHAEL 63122 - $210 primary 11/22/01 SEARS, MICHAEL 60045 Ted Stevens (R)Won $1,000 primary 11/19/01 SEARS, MICHAEL M 63122 GORTON, SLADE (R)Lost $1,000 general 10/18/00 SEARS, MICHAEL 63122 ASHCROFT, JOHN D (R)Lost $1,000 general 09/01/00 SEARS, MICHAEL 63122 Norm Dicks (D)Won $1,000 primary 05/11/00 SEARS, MICHAEL M 63122 George W Bush (R)Won $1,000 primary 06/24/99 SEARS, MICHAEL M 63122 Richard A. Gephardt (D)Won $1,000 primary 06/15/99 Sears, Michael M. Mr. 63122 John McCain (R)Lost $1,000 primary 05/28/99 SEARS, MICHAEL M 63122 Richard A. Gephardt (D)Lost $1,000 primary 05/06/98 SEARS, MICHAEL 63122 TALENT, JAMES M (R)Won $1,000 primary 11/20/97 SEARS, MICHAEL M 63122 Richard A. Gephardt (D)Lost $500 primary 06/12/97 SEARS, MICHAEL M 63122 Christopher (Kit) Bond (R)Won $1,000 primary 03/07/97 SEARS, MICHAEL M 63122 Christopher (Kit) Bond (R)Won $1,000 general 03/07/97 SEARS, MICHAEL 63122 Ted Stevens (R)Won $200 primary 03/01/96 Receive an alert every time new records are added to Michael Sears's report.
* general election result only; "Lost" = didn't win seat for that cycleNEWS MEAT report provided by the Federal Election Commission as of 10/6/08 — 15,706,073 records
NEWSMAKERS
political donations of today's newsmakers
US WAR SHEET
Iraq
Afghanistan
Days
2,034
2,562
GIs Killed in Action
3,385
389
DoD
Non-Hostile GI Deaths
796
151
DoD
GIs Severely Wounded
13,530
1,616
DoD
Current Troop Deployment
146,000
30,000
Brookings , AP
Total Cost (approved through mid 2009)
$650 Bln
$200 Bln
AP
Cost Per Day (Avg)
$261 Mil
$70.8 Mil
casualty status updated October 11, 2008
NEWSMEAT HALL OF FAME
individual donations of $200 or more made after 1977
Political donations made by the powerful, rich, and famous.
Celebrities (actors, musicians, authors, icons) Billionaires Sports Stars Media Business Executives Politics (pols, players, pundits, shills)
Data Provided by the Federal Election Commission as of 10/6/08
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