[ Report Home | Previous Page | Next Page ] Tony Sanchez’s War Chest: Who Gives To A $600 Million Man?   V. Contributions By Interest Category

 

Interest Group	Amount	Percent
Lawyers & Lobbyists	$829,783	24%
Finance	$367,719	11%
Health	$238,910	7%
Real Estate	$171,791	5%
Miscellaneous Business	$147,500	4%
Construction	$140,500	4%
Transportation	$125,500	4%
Energy & Natural Resources	$110,500	3%
Electronics	$106,643	3%
Other	$62,000	2%
Labor	$54,500	2%
Communications	$28,139	1%
Insurance	$13,000	0%
Ideological	$10,000	0%
Agriculture	$5,000	0%
Unknown	$1,005,971	29%
TOTAL:	$3,417,455	100%

The accompanying charts reveal that Sanchez obtained 67 percent of the external money studied in this report (more than $2.2 million) from business interests. Most of the remainder of his external money came from donors whose interests were not identified (29 percent) with negligible amounts coming from Labor, Ideological and Other sources. In reality, of course, the total money that Sanchez has raised is overwhelmingly business money, since 89 percent of his total war chest is derived from the huge fortune that Sanchez made in energy, banking and other ventures. The remainder of this report takes a closer look at the three business sectors that contributed the largest share’s of Sanchez’s external campaign money.