The Super Majority » Campaign Finance http://thesupermajority.com Mon, 08 Feb 2010 07:42:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 NFL Piles Mountains of Greenbacks Behind GOP http://thesupermajority.com/issues/campaign-finance/nfl-piles-mountains-of-greenbacks-behind-gop/ http://thesupermajority.com/issues/campaign-finance/nfl-piles-mountains-of-greenbacks-behind-gop/#comments Fri, 18 Sep 2009 05:31:38 +0000 admin http://thesupermajority.com/?p=202 NFL owners, team officials, players and coaches have overwhelmingly favored Republicans with their political contributions, according to a study released Thursday by the Center for Responsive Politics.

The report, which reviewed contributions dating back to 1989, found that combined contributions from players, owners and officials on 22 of the 32 National Football League teams have given more cash to Republicans than Democrats, and that several teams have given more than 90 percent of their contributions to the GOP.

The San Diego Chargers blew away the rest of the field with $2,455,200 in total money contributed, with most of that coming from team owner Alex Spanos, who has given more than $2 million, almost all of it to Republicans.

Read the full article at POLITICO

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