Election 2012: How Much Have Your Neighbors Given to Obama and Romney?
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Shaker Heights residents made nearly 700 contributions to presidential candidates in this election cycle — and more than 90 percent of the donations went to President Barack Obama.
The public-record list of contributors in Shaker includes a variety of attorneys, investment bankers, college professors and physicians. Though Shaker residents overwhelmingly contributed to Obama, the largest donation went to the Romney campaign. Truck Fax Inc. President Brian Luntz made two contributions totaling $7,250.
Forest City Enterprises executive James A. Ratner twice donated $2,500 to the Obama campaign. Susan Ratner, a social worker at Bellefaire JCB, also made two contributions of $2,500 to Obama, as did Deborah Ratner, founder of Young Audiences of Northeast Ohio.
Of the 658 campaign contributions in Shaker Heights, only 45 went to Romney. Forty of the Obama donations were for $1,000 or more. Results show 24 contributions of $1,000 or more to Romney.
Patch has created an interactive database so you can see how much your neighbors are donating to the presidential campaign—and to which candidate they’re writing their checks. We’ve included communities across Ohio, so if you want to see what the campaign contributions in Beachwood or Cleveland Heights look like, go right ahead.
The information in the database was downloaded from the Federal Election Commission’s website. The data is based on quarterly reports, and is current through July. The data will be updated in mid-October.
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Gramps Pupany
11:55 am on Wednesday, September 19, 2012
Tea Party and GOP corruption starts with Romney & Ryan and lies they told us about who they'll serve and who they won't. Lies of "omission", like hidden budget cuts, are equal to lies of "commission", like telling the rich one thing and the rest of America another.
They're up to his necks in The Lying Game. What they say is all part of the larger GOP strategy. Believe me, Ryan "takes direction" in order to "stay on" the Republican message. He must "sing the GOP song" to be a GOP candidate.
All across the nation, millionaires are backing these liars. They want full control in order to create the final divide between rich and poor. "Us and them".
Their misjudgment? A lot of that 47% they despise is part of working America; students working their way through college, single moms restarting their lives with their first job since high school and truly poor mothers, working while the kids are at school, just to buy fuel oil for this winter and food for the day.
These are proud Americans. Romney has just stolen their pride, their will power and more...their dignity.
Men like Romney, Ryan and Republican candidates for Congress have no place in the seats of government (at any level) making decisions for "all Americans". They only have experience with the "jet set" and their "country club" members. That's okay, if you're running for Prom Queen, but the responsibilities here are far reaching and their vision does not include all Americans, as we've just found out.