Big Donors Favored Dems In 2007
More than three dozen state residents each made at least $25,000 in federal campaign contributions last year, almost exclusively to political party committees that battled over the control of Congress, according to a nonpartisan watchdog group.
Data collected by the Washington, D.C.-based Center for Responsive Politics show that more than half of the 40 Connecticut “fat cats” each gave a whopping $28,500, with nearly all of the money going to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.
The Federal Election Commission data reveal that most of the remainder went to two other Democratic Party entities, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and DNC Services Corp., along with the Republican National Committee and the National Republican Senatorial Committee.
The bulk of the big contributors — who included six people with the same surname and addresses who each gave the same amount — hailed from Greenwich.
The 27 Greenwich residents included three couples in which each member gave $28,500 to the DSCC:
• Paul T. Jones, an assistant manager at Tutor Investment, and Sonia Jones, listed as a homemaker.
• Philip Laskawy, who listed himself as retired, and Patricia Laskawy, who also listed herself as a homemaker.
• Stephen Mandel Jr., a portfolio manager for Lone Pine Capital, and Susan Z. Mandel, who listed herself as retired.
A fourth Greenwich couple, Ronald Howard, the movie director for Imagine Entertainment, and Cheryl Howard, who listed herself as a self-employed writer, also each made $25,000 contributions to the DSCC.
Also contributing $28,500 to the DSCC were a fifth couple from Stamford, Steven Cohen, the founder of SAC Capital Advisors, and Alexandra M. Cohen, who identified herself as a homemaker.
Meanwhile, another Greenwich couple, Lawrence Auriana, a portfolio manager for Federated Investors, and Irene Auriana, each gave $28,500 to the RNC.
The 11 other Connecticut contributors included two residents of Westport, Arthur Samberg, a financier at Pequot Capital, and Jean Butler, an executive at Value Line.
Only one of the donors gave an address in north-central Connecticut - George Weiss of Hartford, who identified himself as the president of George Weiss Associates.
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