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Duplicitous Dave
Biography:
Dave Camp represents the people of the 4th Congressional District of Michigan, one of the largest congressional districts land-wise east of the Mississippi, encompassing all or parts of 14 counties in northwest and mid-Michigan.
First elected to Congress in 1990, Camp made an "unusually rapid rise to prominence," according to the major national policy journal, Congressional Quarterly. A native of Midland, Camp has earned a reputation for paying close attention to the needs of his constituents.
In the House of Representatives, Camp is the third most senior Republican on the Ways and Means Committee, is the Ranking Republican Member on the Health Subcommittee, and also serves as a member of the Human Resources Subcommittee. The committee is considered one of the most powerful in Washington, with jurisdiction over tax, tariff and trade laws, plus Medicare and Social Security.
On Ways and Means, Camp first made his mark in 1996 by playing a crucial role in the passage of the historic welfare reform legislation. Time magazine credited Camp's activity as the "decisive breakthrough" that led to the bill's enactment. Since then, Camp has pushed to move the massive Medicare program towards preventive health care with legislation like the Cholesterol Screening Act, and lower tax rates across the board for families and employers while arguing for a long term overhaul and simplification of the U.S. tax code.
As an attorney in private practice before his first election, Camp worked extensively with parents and children in the foster care system. His experiences in this field gave him the background and insight to introduce landmark Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1996, co-sponsor the Intercountry Adoption Act in 2000 and author the Adoption Promotion Act of 2003. Camp's work in this field has led to him to become one of the House's leading adoption and foster care proponents and experts.
Camp, who was born in Midland, Mich., earned his B.A., magna cum laude, from Albion College in Albion, Mich., and graduated with a J.D. from the University of San Diego.
He and his wife Nancy continue to reside in Midland with their three children.
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Thu Oct 06, 2005 at 01:00:00 AM EDT
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Sat Aug 09, 2008 at 13:36:29 PM EDT
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Stop the presses ... after reading this story in today's Midland Daily News, I surveyed people in my household. 100 percent of them came away unsatisfied that the basics of journalistic inquiry had been met. A day after U.S. Rep. Dave Camp launched an online survey of constituents in mid- and northern Michigan, nearly 70 percent of respondents favored exploration for oil and gas in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and 75 percent say Congress should take an up-or-down vote on it.
More than 2,800 people had responded to the survey by Thursday morning, reported Camp’s press secretary, Sage Eastman. Some 68.83 percent favored exploration in the ANWR while 31.17 did not. Some 77.04 percent favored oil and gas exploration in the waters of the Outer Continental Shelf while 22.96 percent did not.
The last time Dave Camp surveyed his constituents, it was via a survey e-mailed to people who'd signed up for Dave's dispatches from the front lines of Congress. The results are predictable -- most people surveyed think that Dave's doing a super, bang-up, terrific job. At fault here isn't Dave Camp's office. They're only doing what they've learned they can get away with ... time and time again. Notable in the article is how the reporter blew past all questions of whether the online survey could be trusted (hint, hint: it was produced internally, and produced results heavily tilted in favor of the source), and got reaction to it. Camp asked if a better policy is to expand exploration through mining, drilling and building power plants or through conservation and regulation. Hugh McDiarmid, communications director for the Michigan Environmental Council, took issue with lumping conservation and regulation together. “Regulation is a red flag for many people,” he said.
McDiarmid was an excellent reporter back in his day. He also makes a more diplomatic communications guy than I would. My response would have been, "So he surveys a hopelessly skewed population sample, and comes up with results favorable to him ... how is this a story?"
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Thu May 22, 2008 at 00:02:02 AM EDT
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This is the purpose of a bill that Tim Walberg voted against: A BILLTo assist in the conservation of rare felids and rare canids by supporting and providing financial resources for the conservation programs of nations within the range of rare felid and rare canid populations and projects of persons with demonstrated expertise in the conservation of rare felid and rare canid populations. It was Walberg, Peter Hoekstra and, Dave Camp! among Michigan's Congresscritters who voted against this. The bill, if you read through it, appropriates money to studying big cats and preserving their habitat, as long as the money is actually available.
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Fri May 16, 2008 at 11:40:38 AM EDT
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This is just ... I don't know how to describe this. The U.S. House today voted to extend unemployment benefits an additional 26 weeks in hard-hit states like Michigan -- 13 weeks for states that aren't suffering as badly. An amendment extending the benefits passed by a vote of 256 to 166.
...snip... Voting against the amendment that included the jobless benefits were Pete Hoekstra of Holland, Mike Rogers of Brighton, Vern Ehlers of Grand Rapids, Tim Walberg of Tipton, Thad McCotter of Livonia and Dave Camp of Midland.
Offered a chance to support something that would specifically benefit unemployed workers in the state of Michigan, these people said, "Nah ... not interested."
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Fri May 16, 2008 at 10:10:49 AM EDT
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If there's one thing Dave Camp has been adept at doing, it's been maintaining the image that he is engaged in his district. In my college days, I used to get wave after wave of press releases from his office, and his press person used to provide me regular updates of what the Congressman was doing. One day, he showed up to the campus of CMU for an awards ceremony and got his photo snapped a couple of times passing a scholarship check (alas, not one of those oversized checks). While I was writing up the story, a photographer (Bonnie, my roommate at the time) came back from taking shots at a local CMU clothing store because there was some significant sporting event coming up (un-riot-related), and there was a featur-y story running on school spirit. She said some guy saw her shooting photos and offered to model with the shirt. Yes, indeed, when we looked at the photos, it was Dave Camp, hoping to get his mug into the school paper twice in one edition. He'd go on to become an expert in smothering various newsrooms in press releases. A friend of mine at the Mt. Pleasant paper kept them in what was first a manilla folder. Then, an expanded folder. Finally, a drawer was dedicated to Dave Camp press releases. And, when you'd look at papers from across mid-Michigan, you'd regularly find stories about how Dave Camp had blown into some little crossroads VFW hall to award some veteran some medal he'd earned 50 years ago, but that no one had gotten him. In stories involving controversy, he developed a habit of issuing incredibly vanilla statements. When you'd press him on issues of real importance, he'd claim amazement. Once, when asked about membership issues involving the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe (background, members of the Tribe get a cut of the casino profits, a stipend called colloquially "per caps," so being a member of the Tribe carries with it direct financial advantages), he said, "There are membership issues?" The casino and central reservation territory of the tribe, mind you, is about 20 miles west of Camp's home town of Midland. When asked to visit the cleanup and mess in and around Alma and St. Louis involving the Pine River, while stirring up the petroleum-soaked muck of Horse Creek, Camp said something like, "I had no idea it was like this." The point of this is that Dave Camp was among a handful of Michigan Congressmen who yesterday voted against expanding the G.I. Bill. The list of 'no' voters includes such bright lights of legislating like Tim Walberg (natch), who also voted against Head Start. Other Michigan Congresscritters who voted against it include Peter Hoekstra, Thaddeus McCotter, and Vern Ehlers. Voting in favor of it was everyone else, including all of the state's Democrats. The bill passed the House, 256-166, and is expected to go to a vote in the Senate perhaps early next week. The president said he thinks he might veto it.
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Mon Apr 14, 2008 at 17:46:42 PM EDT
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UPDATE: New CD-07 Numbers!
UPDATE 2: More Numbers! We're starting to get gotten all of the fundraising numbers for the first three months of 2008 for the Michigan Congressional races. Please note, all sources for data will be cited. Press releases will likely differ from the FEC filings since campaigns have more than one source of income. CD-07
Sen. Mark Schauer (D-Battle Creek) has raised more than $326,000 this quarter with more than $750,000 in cash on hand. (Source: Schauer Campaign press release) [FEC Reports say $323,549.59] Jim Berryman raised $0 and has $16,098.82 cash on hand while Sharon Renier raised $275.00, has a total of $45.04 cash on hand and owes a campaign debt of $5,200.00. Congressman Walberg raised $265,095.70 ($87,500 from PACs) and has a total of $604,466.54 cash on hand. Brad Smith raised $0, $465.83 cash on hand and debt of $138,150. Former Congressman Joe Schwarz raised $300.00 and has $59,144.09 cash on hand. (Source: FEC Campaign Reports) CD-09
Democratic candidate Gary Peters has raised more than $346,000 this quarter bringing his total raised to nearly $748,000. (Source: Peters Campaign press release) Incumbent Joe Knollenberg raised a total of $400,171.00 with $112,500.00 from PACs. Knollenberg has total cash on hand of $1,336,212.77. Now former candidate Nancy Skinner raised $14,178.87 and has $13,680.48 cash on hand. (Source: FEC Campaign Reports) CD-01
Congressman Bart Stupak raised a total of $109,292.14 with a total cash on hand of $451,522.03. Tom Casperson raised $5,481.57 with a total cash on hand of $29,661.62. (Source: FEC Campaign Reports) There's more below the fold...
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Thu Feb 21, 2008 at 11:19:16 AM EST
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The League of Conservation Voters today released their national legislative scorecard, and while Michigan's delegations overall did pretty well, a few things stood out. The first is that while Joe Knollenberg was named by the League of Conservation Voters to its 2008 Dirty Dozen list, his score isn't actually the lowest of any Michigan Congressman. Knollenberg, who was named to the list because of his lifetime voting score of 7 percent, managed to more than double that last year, coming in at 20 percent. What did he support that got him there: Grasslands preservation, a repeal of oil company subsidies, clean energy, and agricultural subsidies reform. What did he oppose? Fighting global warming, a national renewable portfolio standard, increased fuel efficiency, and a bunch of other stuff. Why? Well, it could be the nearly $650,000 he's taken from polluting interests. (The fuel efficiency bit, folks might remember, prompted him to erect a bunch of billboards about how much Arnold Scwarzenegger hates Michigan.) But, who did worse than Knollenberg? Oh, some familiar names like Hoekstra, McCotter, Rogers, Walberg, and Camp ... and McCain. (for this, we go below the fold...)
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Thu Jan 31, 2008 at 12:25:42 PM EST
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Wow... I was searching around the blogosphere when I stumbled on an odd site for supporters of my congressman Dave Camp (MI-04). Fat Cats 4 Camp I know Dave is a minion to the Bush Republican Cabal, but I had no idea that such a powerful group was behind his campaign. Just look at what they have posted so far...
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Fri Jan 18, 2008 at 16:56:50 PM EST
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Introducing Andrew Concannon
Dave Camp recently gave $400,000 to the Republican efforts for 2008. He has served in the House since 1990, and like many of his fellow Michigan Republicans, he hasn't done a thing for its people.
The only thing he knows how to do is vote yes when Bush asks him to.
It is time for a change...follow me after the jump to learn more about Andy.
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Thu Jan 18, 2007 at 21:17:10 PM EST
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Check out MyDD's "Top 50 House pick-up chances" at http://www.mydd.com/.... There are four Michigan seats on the list; Tim Walberg (MI-07) is number one, Joe Knollenberg (MI-09) is number eleven, Thaddeus McCotter (MI-11) is number twenty-five, and Dave Camp (MI-04) brings up the rear at number fifty.
Republicans currently hold a three vote advantage in the Michigan delegation (9-6). Think what Michigan could bring to the table if its Congressional delegation matched the majority.
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Wed Nov 01, 2006 at 09:24:38 AM EST
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You wouldn't think this would be a time when a candidate for Congress would call attention to his own efforts for free trade, but Dave Camp did in a little blue letter I received yesterday.
The letter highlighted Dave's role in fighting for worker pensions, and also increasing the deductible teachers can take for classroom supplies (up a whopping $150 a year ... it'll help defray the rising costs of health care teachers are increasingly expected to share).
Well, heck, here it is (something for the Republican junkmail repository):
The letter also mentions Dave's efforts to create a free trade prosecutor to make sure that other countries obey free trade laws. Dave says Michigan workers can compete with anyone in the world.
Of course, scrape away the pablum, and you're still left with this reality:
Free trade doesn't reward quality workmanship, but the ability of a corporation to turn a better profit. If that means leaving Michigan's highly trained and motivated workforce to find jobs flipping burgers, and moving the factory to a country where workers earn much lower wages, and where the company doesn't have to offer health care benefits, and that don't have a bunch of sticky environmental rules ... sayanora, Michigan.
Thanks Dave, for your efforts on behalf of free trade. Thanks.
One final note -- in five years of living in Dave Camp's district, this is the first time I've heard from him. His lack of engagement with the citizens of his district might have something to do with the warm, loving greetings he sometimes gets when he parachutes in (ahh, those angry radical moonbat Gratiot County seniors...).
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Thu Feb 02, 2006 at 13:34:03 PM EST
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Read more from the AP Wire story and the Washington Post story. Because the bill already passed the Senate, now it goes to the President's desk - who will almost certainly sign it.
...Republicans said the measure cemented the GOP's status as the party of smaller, more efficient government. But Democrats said the measure, when combined with an upcoming bill cutting taxes by about $70 billion, would lead to an increase in the deficit.
...Pediatricians say provisions allowing states to eliminate some guaranteed Medicaid child health care services and charge new and increased co-payments would end up hurting children by driving tens of thousands of beneficiaries out of the program.
Student groups charged the bill harmed college student through $11.9 billion in cuts to the student loan program, including higher fees on student and higher interest rates on parent loans.
Roll Call vote count here. All the Democrats were united against it, and 13 Republicans crossed over to vote against it too. But the bill passed, 216-214.
Did any of Michigan's GOP delegation grow a backbone and vote against it? No.
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Fri Jan 06, 2006 at 12:30:52 PM EST
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This is posted at ICDP also.
The Morning Sun in central Michigan has it wrong with their headline
Dave Camp is refusing to give back the money clearly influensed by Abramoff's lobbying.
From the same article: But Camp and a political action committee he controls also received a total of $15,000 from Native Tribes that were Abramoff's clients. Camp, in a prepared statement, said he believes those gifts were legitimate expressions of support.
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The Choctaws gave Camp a total of $6,500 in 2000 and 2004, all while using Abramoff as a lobbyist. Since firing him, the Tribe has continued to be a generous political donor, but hasn't given Camp anything. The Tigua Tribe's giving appears closely related to its relationship with Abramoff. The Tribe made just $7,250 worth of political donations during the 2000 election. Then it hired Abramoff. In the 2002 campaign, while Abramoff was being paid by the Tiguas, the Texas Tribe's giving jumped to $160,000, including a $2,000 gift to Camp. Then the band fired Abramoff after learning the lobbyist had worked for a competing Tribe to shut down the Tiguas' Speaking Rock Casino. In the 2004 campaign, the cash-strapped Tiguas gave nothing. They have given no donations during the 2006 campaign, either.
That smell stinketh. $8500 worth of stinketh.
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Thu Oct 06, 2005 at 01:00:00 AM EDT
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Alan Fox (interview
with Matt Ferguson, October, 2005):
MF: Slightly less Republican than Hoekstra, Ehlers, or Miller - but not by much. What do we know about him?
AF: Again, it's a district that was drawn carefully to be just
Republican enough to stay out of the Democrats' reach, but not so
Republican that Republican votes were wasted and couldn't go into other
districts. Camp's district sheds some Republican votes into Mike
Rogers' district, for example. Camp had enough of a margin to do that
with. There's no Democrat with a real base there. It's a district where
Bush got 55% and Camp got 65%, and Democrats are not going to take a
real shot at it. The district was last held by Democrats when Don
Albosta represented it in the 1970's for a couple of terms. He's
probably a model of what it would take to win that district - a farmer,
not liberal - by any stretch of the imagination - and there's really
nobody else like him coming up. In addition, the Traverse City area,
which is now part of the district, has gotten more and more populated -
and more and more Republican. So if there's any growth factor in the
district, it's Republican, not Democratic.
MF: Maybe if there was another Bart Stupak floating around somewhere?
AF: Even a Bart Stupak couldn't win election to the Legislature in that
district. Shiawassee County and Saginaw county have had
Democratic state representatives, but they're kind of off on one side
of the district and there isn't much to work with.
MF: That's probably the most awkwardly configured district. It goes all
the way up from Shiawassee county in the south (near Lansing and Flint)
to Midland, and all the way up to Leelenau county in north...
AF: To the Fox Islands, even...The district, I think, is always the one
that's left over when you carve up the rest of the state. It's in the
middle of the state, and once you've carved up where the U.P.
district is, and given everybody else what's south and west of it,
what's left over is always going to be pretty Republican.
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Thu Sep 29, 2005 at 01:00:00 AM EDT
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Matt was sad because a big discussion wasn't generated about Tom Delay. He quickly reinstated the Michigan content only rule.
Well...I'll start out some Michigan connections to Tom Delay, thus holding to the rule, and commenting on Tom Delay.
US Congressman Dave Camp of Mi-4 tried to shield Tom Delay from the consequences of the indictment.
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Fri Aug 26, 2005 at 01:00:00 AM EDT
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...I thought they were less expensive.
With the summer months winding down, the desire to get out of town one last time is heavy. But, us working folks are taking less and less of our vacations, if we can even afford to have one.
If we could only be a Republican in Washington...
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Mon Aug 15, 2005 at 01:00:00 AM EDT
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For quick reference, here's a wallet-sized list of all of Michigan's congressional delegation and the amounts each officeholder has received from Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. PAC for Responsible Government over the past five years or so (the horrible irony behind the names of some of these corporate PACS never ceases to amaze me). Funny how U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Brighton) got 20 grand from Wal-Mart as he continues to crusade against Chinese currency manipulation, or - as he so eloquently put it - "the new red menace." (snark) I'm no economist, but it sure seems to me that an inflated Yuan would cut into Wal-Mart's bottom line. All of this begs the question of whether Wal-Mart is getting a poor return on their "investment" or Mike's talk about currency manipulation is a bunch of non-starter B.S. You decide.
U.S. Senate
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Carl Levin (D)
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$0.00
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Debbie Stabenow (D)
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$0.00
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Bart Stupak (D)
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$0.00
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Pete Hoekstra (R)
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$5,000.00
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Vern Ehlers (R)
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$5,000.00
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Dave Camp (R)
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$2,500.00
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Dave Kildee (D)
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$0.00
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Fred Upton (R)
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$10,000.00
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Joe Schwarz (R)
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$0.00
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Mike Rogers (R)
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$20,000.00
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Joe Knollenberg (R)
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$20,000.00
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Candice Miller (R)
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$6,000.00
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Thaddeus McCotter (R)
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$13,500.00
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Sander Levin (D)
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$0.00
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Carolyn Kilpatrick (D)
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$1,000.00
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John Conyers, Jr. (D)
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$0.00
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John Dingell (D)
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$5,000.00
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Source: Federal Elections Commission
BTW, Dingell got his 5k during his primary fight with then-U.S. Rep. Lynn Rivers (who really needs to get back into politics). Also -- At first glance, it doesn't appear that Wal-Mart has a state-level PAC. If they do, it doesn't include the word "Wal-Mart" in the name.
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