[PEN-L:30600] Re: corporate poltiical contributions over-rated?

[Bill Lear <rael@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Saturday, September 21, 2002 at 16:16:58 (-0700) Devine, James writes:
>New York TIMES/September 19, 2002
>Are Political Contributions Worth the Money?
>By ALAN B. KRUEGER
>...

I haven't followed the entire discussion and have quickly read the
article, so I may have missed something, but as Tom Ferguson points
out, when Michael Dell contributes $50,000 to politics, it isn't to
burnish his personal image.  I don't see any evidence of the authors
attempting to find patterns in donations by individuals who own or
control corporations, as Ferguson does so astutely.  This seems to me
to be a extremely shoddy study, and Krueger's analysis of it
very superficial.


Bill