AREA Adviser Rebecca Zorach has been keeping a notebook of what Rahm Emanuel has been up to. Read the ongoing Notebook in AREA's new blog Grid City. Here's a sample:
Day 5. In 2008, 17 of Rahm's top 20 campaign committee contributors (ranked by aggregate per organization or business) were in the financial services industry: that is, banks, options traders, private equity management companies, hedge funds, etc.
(In case it seems like this is probably typical of politicians, just for comparison, of IL Rep. Jan Schakowsky's top 20 contributors, none were in the financial services industry.)
Open Secrets explains; "The organizations themselves did not donate, rather the money came from the organization's PAC, its individual members or employees or owners, and those individuals' immediate families." This means that companies are ranked according to the totals of those individual donations.
