Posted by Phil Lee (64.24.81.20) on September 13, 2002 at 21:00:
This analysis addresses the most recent report (9/13/02) filed by Speaker
Taylor with the Maryland Board of Elections of financial contributions to
his campaign. The data has been stored on this site in a comma delimited
form that can be read with Notepad or processed by Excel or another
spreadsheet program.Speaker Taylor reports 1243 total contributions amounting to $546,698.50.
The top 10 single contributions came from:
The Maryland Greater Washington Board of Trade PAC $5000
Allegany Aggregates, Inc. 4000
William M. Rickman Jr. 3250
Citizens for Dutch Ruppersberger 3000
Martins, Inc. 3000
Friends of Peter Franchot 2000
The Imaging Center 2000
Maryland BankPac (State) 2000
Bank of America of Maryland PAC 2000
Maryland Optometric Assoc PAC 2000Only one of these (Rickman) is an individual contribution. In fact
there are a total of 24 contributions of $2000 so all of them are tied
for 6th place. The remaining contributors of $2000 at one time are:
NAIOP PAC
Maryland Association of Mortgage Brokers PAC
Restaurant Association of Maryland, Inc. PAC
Bedford Valley Petroleum Corporation
United Propane, Inc
Viking Energy Corp.
Kent Towne Market
SusquehannaBank
Bell Atlantic of Maryland State Political Action Committee
Maryland BankPAC (State)
C. Willilam Hetzer, Inc.
Dynacorp, Inc.
MBNA Delaware Political Action Committee
Perini Services, Inc.
Callas Contractors, Inc.
MD IPA PAC
Thoroughbred Breeders & Horsemens PAC
David Modell
Cell Works, Inc.
Shirley H. GildenOnly 2 of these contributions are from individuals.
Speaker Taylor has 232 recorded contributions of more than $1000 (some
contributors may repeat -- e.g. the NRA gave $1000 on each of two
occasions). Those contributions amount to 51.6% ($281,845 out of
$546,698.50) of his campaign collections.There are 217 contributions of between $500 and $1000. Those
contributions amount to 20.5% of his collection.There are 513 contributions of between $250 and $500 amounting to 23.6%
of his total.There are 150 contributions of between $100 and $250 amounting to 3.4%
of his total.There are 61 contributions of between $50 and $100 amounting to 0.6% of
his total.There are 70 contributions of under $50 amounting to 0.3% of his total.
There were 138 contributions from outside of Maryland amounting to
15.1% of his total (this figure overlaps the reports above).There were 1105 contributions from inside of Maryland out of the 1243
total providing 84.9% of his total collections. Of those 1105 Maryland
contributions, only 251 came from within his district and provided
17.8% of his total. So, 853 Maryland people or organizations from
outside of Taylor's district provided 67.1% of his money and 75%
of the recorded contributions and 82.2% of the total money came
from outside of his district.