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Ellen Barkin ($95,500)
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Josh Lucas ($250)
Russell Simmons ($81,000)
Jamie Foxx ($15,700)
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Ken Venturi ($550)
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Richard Lewis ($6,000)
Jaclyn Smith ($3,574)
Warren Beatty ($37,393)
Gwyneth Paltrow ($31,450)
Al Leiter ($10,000)
Pierce Brosnan ($2,000)
Mariel Hemingway ($1,750)
David Pecker ($85,770)
Sean Hayes ($3,500)
Oliver North ($5,300)
Armen Keteyian ($250)
Jeffrey Tambor ($250)
Mel Karmazin ($217,306)
William 'Hootie' Johnson ($14,949)
Sharon Gless ($14,800)
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Katey Sagal ($1,000)
Ian Gomez ($250)
Andrew Greeley ($8,600)
Robert Kraft ($338,350)
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Jeff Zucker ($10,000)
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Al Franken ($57,653)
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Karen Duffy ($4,050)
Rob Lowe ($1,000)
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Jonathan Demme ($7,550)
Erica Jong ($7,000)
Alanis Morissette ($3,000)
James 'LL Cool J' Smith ($4,000)
Charlotte Rae ($7,850)
Michael Stipe ($91,838)
Suzanne Somers ($1,000)
Nancy Sinatra ($55,975)
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Hall of Fame ► Politics
Joe Trippi , 52 (bio ) Democratic political consultant
NEWS MEAT
1,867
Election Picks: 2 wins, 12 losses
$19,677 Democrat $6,500 special interest total: $26,177
Contributor
Candidate or PAC
Election
Amount
Date
FEC
TRIPPI, JOE 21676 SLATTERY, JIM (D)Lost $500 primary 04/30/08 Trippi, Joe 21676 John Edwards (D)Lost $500 primary 06/23/07 Trippi, Joe 21676 John Edwards (D)Lost $300 primary 05/17/07 TRIPPI, JOE 21676 Kweisi Mfume (D)Lost $500 primary 09/08/06 TRIPPI, JOE 21676 Kweisi Mfume (D)Lost $2,309 primary 09/06/06 TRIPPI, JOE 21676 Kweisi Mfume (D)Lost $3,689 primary 09/05/06 TRIPPI, JOSEPH P 21676 - $5,000 primary 05/05/04 Trippi, Joseph 21663 Howard Dean (D)Lost $1,750 primary 03/20/03 Trippi, Joseph 21663 Howard Dean (D)Lost $250 primary 01/23/03 Trippi, Joe 22314 MCCOY, MATT (D)Lost $500 primary 06/30/01 TRIPPI, JOE 22314 LILLEHAUG, DAVID L (D) - $-1,000 general 06/25/00 TRIPPI, JOE 22314 LILLEHAUG, DAVID L (D)Lost $1,000 general 03/20/00 TRIPPI, JOE P 22314 PEACOCK, WILLIAM E (D)Lost $1,000 primary 12/30/99 TRIPPI, JOE 22314 LILLEHAUG, DAVID L (D)Lost $1,000 primary 03/24/99 TRIPPI, JOE 22314 - $200 primary 07/28/98 TRIPPI, JOE 22314 KEANE, THOMAS M JR (D)Lost $300 primary 06/30/98 TRIPPI, JOE P 22314 WAITE, RALPH (D)Lost $500 01/27/98 TRIPPI, JOE 22314 - $500 primary 01/14/97 TRIPPI, JOE 22314 SPENCER, RICHARD A (D)Lost $500 primary 03/13/96 TRIPPI, JOE P 22314 KENNEDY, JOSEPH P II (D)Won $250 primary 07/26/94 TRIPPI, JOE P 22314 WHEAT, ALAN (D)Lost $750 primary 07/25/94 TRIPPI, JOE 22314 - $1,000 general 06/30/94 TRIPPI, JOE P 22314 Patrick J. Kennedy (D)Won $200 primary 03/29/94 TRIPPI, JOE P 21403 LONSDALE, HAROLD K (D)Lost $500 primary 02/28/90 TRIPPI, JOE 21403 - $4,179 primary 12/19/89 Receive an alert every time new records are added to Joe Trippi's report.
* general election result only; "Lost" = didn't win seat for that cycleNEWS MEAT report provided by the Federal Election Commission as of 11/24/08 — 16,293,404 records
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US WAR SHEET
Iraq
Afghanistan
Days
2,087
2,615
GIs Killed in Action
3,394
404
DoD
Non-Hostile GI Deaths
815
152
DoD
GIs Severely Wounded
13,595
1,680
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 December 1, 2008
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