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THE FLIGHT HOME WAS GREAT. I watched the Lion King, some Big Bang Theory, KINKY BOOTS AT LONG LAST, and the Devil Wears Prada. I was going to do things like write while I watched things, but I ended up playing Angry Birds the entire flight instead. And then Greg Dobbs was clearing customs at the same time as me, which I discovered because I spotted his stack of Florida Marlins luggage emblazoned with his number. Get some new gear, Miami boy.
My abuelas are making arroz con pollo for me tonight. ALL FOR ME. Well, for everyone else who is going over for H's birthday, but mostly they are making it because I have missed it a lot and they love me. OM NOM NOM.
I don't know what to do with the Panthers right now. The team that lost 5-0 to the Flyers should not then lose 2-1 in a shootout to the Penguins the next night, especially not with how shit our second night of back-to-backs have been this season. It's weird. But we're very likely to win the division, no matter what Wyshynski says, because no one else wants it and then PLAYOFFS IN FLORIDA IN A SPORT I CARE ABOUT FOR THE FIRST TIME IN WAY TOO LONG. \o/
Anyway, I need to go try and do some work on my essay so that I can pretend I am doing work this break, but this morning when I was up way too early I ended up curious about political contributions from athletes and ran this set of stuff, specifically for hockey players because the first football player I found the information on, from a different site, made me cry.
I found all of this by searching opensecrets.org using the employer search and plugging in the name of the team. These only include contributions of over $200, because under $200 is not something it's required to report. It's not totally complete -- there are some scouts and marketing people I left off, but it's an interesting set of data, I guess. Also the way I gathered it means not everyone is under the team you might associate them with -- Bill Torrey, for example, has his entries under the Panthers because of when these are from. Also because whatever, he loves us and we love him. It's only from more recently than 1990, because ... that's what opensecrets.org has the data for. And there are some dudes, like Mike Comrie, who listed their employer/occupation as just "nhl," so they're under that.
There are a lot of super egregious failures on here -- two dudes giving money to Bachmann or her PAC, lots of Bush money, mounds of money straight to the Republican party -- but I'm going to say the worst was Brian Rafalski, a Michigan boy who was playing in Michigan, giving to a fucking Florida Tea Party candidate. >:( The Penguins are the best organization, because other than a 1999 donation to Santorum, they do not give to Republicans. Also, Chris Pronger sucks. Fuck you, Canada, stop giving money to Republicans.
Anaheim Ducks
Chris Pronger - 5/21/2007 - $2,000 - Rudy Giuliani
Brian Burke - 7/10/2006 - $2,000 - Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee
Boston Bruins
Tim Thomas - 10/27/2010 - $2,000 - FreedomWorks
Charlie Jacobs -- in 2010 and 2011, a total of $3,400 to Kristen Gillbrand (D) -- 10/26/2010, $2,000 to Joe Manchin (D) -- 6/25/2003 - $2,000 - George W. Bush -- 3/31/2005 - $1,000 - Arizona Republican Party
Gord Kluzak - $2,400 in 2011 to Scott Brown (R)
Buffalo Sabres
Doug Gilmour - 2000 - $8,000 to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, $1,000 to Tom Carper (D)
THE KNOXES, UNSURPRISINGLY, ARE BIG FAT REPUBLICANS AND I'M NOT TYPING IT ALL UP.
Larry Quinn - exclusively donations to democrats, totaling $5,500 and including $1,000 to Hillary Clinton.
Carolina Hurricanes
Peter Laviolette - 8/31/2007 - $500 - Mitt Romney
Jim Rutherford - 2/15/2007 - $2,300 - Mitt Romney
Jim Rutherford - 3/9/2007 - $495 - Republican National Committee
Jim Rutherford - 9/3/2004 - $500 - National Republican Congressional Committee
Jim Rutherford - 10/27/2006 - $495 - Republican National Committee
Jim Rutherford - 7/16/2004 - $500 - National Republican Congressional Committee
Chicago Blackhawks
James Blunk and John McDonough gave identical donations of $1,000 on 10/17/2010 to Mark Kirk (R) and on 6/13/2011 to Peter Roskam (R)
Rocky Wirtz - 10/28/2010 - $2,400 - Robert Dold (R)
Rocky Wirtz - 5/23/2011 - $1,000 - Tim Pawlenty (R)
Pat Foley - 5/25/2004 - $500 - Jack Ryan (R)
Mark Janssens - 11/17/1999 - $500 - George W. Bush
Robert Probert - 4/27/1999 - $1,000 - Al Gore
Pete Wirtz - 10/31/2005 - $2,100 - Evan Bayh (D)
Bill Wirtz - 10/24/1994 - $1,000 - Bob Kerrey (D)
Bill Wirtz - 8/4/2000 - $1,000 - Peter G Fitzgerald (R)
Columbus Blue Jackets
John McConnel - 7/6/2006 - $2,000 - Gerlach, Jim (R)
Dallas Stars
Doug Armstrong - 3/23/2007 - $2,300 - Rudy Giuliani
Doug Armstrong - 7/17/2003 - $1,000 - George W. Bush
Doug Armstrong - 6/2/2004 - $1,000 - George W. Bush
Robert Hutson - 8/7/2008 - $500 - John McCain
James Lites - 3/27/2007 - $2,300 - Rudy Giuliani
James Lites - 7/30/2003 - $2,000 - George W. Bush
Ralph Strangis - 10/24/2008 - $1,000 - Barack Obama
Ralph Strangis - 9/6/2008 - $1,000 - Barack Obama
Bill Guerin - 8/27/2003 - $2,000 - George W. Bush
Bill Guerin - 8/23/2004 - $1,000 - George W. Bush
Detroit Red Wings
From 2009-2011, Brian Rafalski gave $4,650 to Republicans, including $500 to Marco Rubio, current senator for Florida and TEA PARTY SCUM OF THE EARTH, $2,400 to Andrew Raczkowski, and $250 to Michele Bachmann's PAC.
James Lites - 10/2/1990 - $700 - Carl Levin (D)
Curtis Joseph and his wife - 4/21/2004 - $500 each to George W Bush
Florida Panthers
Michael "OH MY GOD SHUT UP ALREADY" Yormark gave $9,400 from 2006-2010 to Ron Klein (D), who is kind of scummy but likes Obama.
Michael Yormark - 3/27/2009 - $2,400 - Harry Reid (D)
Chuck Fletcher - 5/20/1996 - $400 - Lee Wasserman (3rd party)
Bill Torrey - about $1,000 from 1994-2002 to Republicans.
Los Angeles Kings
Charlie Jacobs - 6/13/1995 - $1,000 - Alfonse D'Amato (R)
Charlie Jacobs - 12/5/1997 - $1,000 - New York Salute 1998
Bruce McNall - 1992 - $2,000 - Dianne Feinstein (D)
Bruce McNall - 1992 - $2,000 - Gray Davis (D)
Minnesota Wild
Craig Leipold - SO MUCH MONEY TO REPUBLICANS 2008-2011, including $1,000 to Bachmann; one lone Democrat (Jon Hulburd) got $2,000
Robert Naegele - 2010 - $2,000 - Ron Johnson
Nashville Predators
Craig Leipold - something like $20,000 to the Republican Part of Wisconsin between 2007 and 2011. And also a whole bunch of stuff earlier than that, including $2,000 in 2003 to George W Bush.
New Jersey Devils
Matthew Lombardi - 8/4/2010 - $250 - Joseph Malone (R)
Jeffrey Vanderbeek - 10/30/2008 - $5,000 - New Jersey First (D)
Jeffrey Vanderbeek - 12/7/2007 - $2,300 - Mitt Romney
Jeffrey Vanderbeek - 2003/2004 - $6,000 - George W. Bush
New York Rangers
Chris Drury - 9/29/2008 - $500 - Republican National Committee
Glen Sather - 6/30/2007 - $2,000 - Hillary Clinton
Philadelphia Flyers
Jay Snider - 11/2/1990 - $1,000 - Steny Hoyer (D)
Robert Esche - 7/17/2006 - $1,000 - Raymond Meier (R)
Phoenix Coyotes
Richard Burke gave lots of money to John McCain over the past forever. Which isn't really surprising. Dear John McCain, please buy the Coyotes.
Pittsburgh Penguins
Ron Burkle and David Morehouse gave tons of money to Democrats, BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY, Georges Laraque gave $1,500 to Barack Obama because he's great.
Mario Lemieux - 3/30/2007 - $2,300 - Hillary Clinton
Mario Lemieux - 10/11/1999 - $500 - Rick Santorum
St Louis Blues
Chris Pronger - 2004 - $1,400 - Christopher "Kit" Bond (R)
Chris Pronger - 6/30/2005 - $500 - James Talent (R)
Tampa Bay Lightning
Jay Feaster - thousands to the Republican Party of Florida. WORTHLESS.
Washington Capitals
Ted Leonsis - 2/1/2011 - $1,000 - John Sarbanes (D)
Ted Leonsis - 9/19/2004 - $1,000 - Nick Clooney (D)
Other NHL
Brendan Shanahan - 2008 - $2,300 - Barack Obama
Mike Comrie - 11/30/2011 - $5,000 - Barack Obama
Mike Comrie - 11/30/2011 - $30,800 - DNC Services Corporation
Gary Bettman - 10/14/2008 - $2,300 - Norm Coleman (R)
Gary Bettman - 12/20/2002 - $1,000 - New Jersey Democratic State Committee
Gary Bettman - 3/16/1990 - $1,000 - Bill Bradley (D)
My abuelas are making arroz con pollo for me tonight. ALL FOR ME. Well, for everyone else who is going over for H's birthday, but mostly they are making it because I have missed it a lot and they love me. OM NOM NOM.
I don't know what to do with the Panthers right now. The team that lost 5-0 to the Flyers should not then lose 2-1 in a shootout to the Penguins the next night, especially not with how shit our second night of back-to-backs have been this season. It's weird. But we're very likely to win the division, no matter what Wyshynski says, because no one else wants it and then PLAYOFFS IN FLORIDA IN A SPORT I CARE ABOUT FOR THE FIRST TIME IN WAY TOO LONG. \o/
Anyway, I need to go try and do some work on my essay so that I can pretend I am doing work this break, but this morning when I was up way too early I ended up curious about political contributions from athletes and ran this set of stuff, specifically for hockey players because the first football player I found the information on, from a different site, made me cry.
I found all of this by searching opensecrets.org using the employer search and plugging in the name of the team. These only include contributions of over $200, because under $200 is not something it's required to report. It's not totally complete -- there are some scouts and marketing people I left off, but it's an interesting set of data, I guess. Also the way I gathered it means not everyone is under the team you might associate them with -- Bill Torrey, for example, has his entries under the Panthers because of when these are from. Also because whatever, he loves us and we love him. It's only from more recently than 1990, because ... that's what opensecrets.org has the data for. And there are some dudes, like Mike Comrie, who listed their employer/occupation as just "nhl," so they're under that.
There are a lot of super egregious failures on here -- two dudes giving money to Bachmann or her PAC, lots of Bush money, mounds of money straight to the Republican party -- but I'm going to say the worst was Brian Rafalski, a Michigan boy who was playing in Michigan, giving to a fucking Florida Tea Party candidate. >:( The Penguins are the best organization, because other than a 1999 donation to Santorum, they do not give to Republicans. Also, Chris Pronger sucks. Fuck you, Canada, stop giving money to Republicans.
Anaheim Ducks
Chris Pronger - 5/21/2007 - $2,000 - Rudy Giuliani
Brian Burke - 7/10/2006 - $2,000 - Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee
Boston Bruins
Tim Thomas - 10/27/2010 - $2,000 - FreedomWorks
Charlie Jacobs -- in 2010 and 2011, a total of $3,400 to Kristen Gillbrand (D) -- 10/26/2010, $2,000 to Joe Manchin (D) -- 6/25/2003 - $2,000 - George W. Bush -- 3/31/2005 - $1,000 - Arizona Republican Party
Gord Kluzak - $2,400 in 2011 to Scott Brown (R)
Buffalo Sabres
Doug Gilmour - 2000 - $8,000 to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, $1,000 to Tom Carper (D)
THE KNOXES, UNSURPRISINGLY, ARE BIG FAT REPUBLICANS AND I'M NOT TYPING IT ALL UP.
Larry Quinn - exclusively donations to democrats, totaling $5,500 and including $1,000 to Hillary Clinton.
Carolina Hurricanes
Peter Laviolette - 8/31/2007 - $500 - Mitt Romney
Jim Rutherford - 2/15/2007 - $2,300 - Mitt Romney
Jim Rutherford - 3/9/2007 - $495 - Republican National Committee
Jim Rutherford - 9/3/2004 - $500 - National Republican Congressional Committee
Jim Rutherford - 10/27/2006 - $495 - Republican National Committee
Jim Rutherford - 7/16/2004 - $500 - National Republican Congressional Committee
Chicago Blackhawks
James Blunk and John McDonough gave identical donations of $1,000 on 10/17/2010 to Mark Kirk (R) and on 6/13/2011 to Peter Roskam (R)
Rocky Wirtz - 10/28/2010 - $2,400 - Robert Dold (R)
Rocky Wirtz - 5/23/2011 - $1,000 - Tim Pawlenty (R)
Pat Foley - 5/25/2004 - $500 - Jack Ryan (R)
Mark Janssens - 11/17/1999 - $500 - George W. Bush
Robert Probert - 4/27/1999 - $1,000 - Al Gore
Pete Wirtz - 10/31/2005 - $2,100 - Evan Bayh (D)
Bill Wirtz - 10/24/1994 - $1,000 - Bob Kerrey (D)
Bill Wirtz - 8/4/2000 - $1,000 - Peter G Fitzgerald (R)
Columbus Blue Jackets
John McConnel - 7/6/2006 - $2,000 - Gerlach, Jim (R)
Dallas Stars
Doug Armstrong - 3/23/2007 - $2,300 - Rudy Giuliani
Doug Armstrong - 7/17/2003 - $1,000 - George W. Bush
Doug Armstrong - 6/2/2004 - $1,000 - George W. Bush
Robert Hutson - 8/7/2008 - $500 - John McCain
James Lites - 3/27/2007 - $2,300 - Rudy Giuliani
James Lites - 7/30/2003 - $2,000 - George W. Bush
Ralph Strangis - 10/24/2008 - $1,000 - Barack Obama
Ralph Strangis - 9/6/2008 - $1,000 - Barack Obama
Bill Guerin - 8/27/2003 - $2,000 - George W. Bush
Bill Guerin - 8/23/2004 - $1,000 - George W. Bush
Detroit Red Wings
From 2009-2011, Brian Rafalski gave $4,650 to Republicans, including $500 to Marco Rubio, current senator for Florida and TEA PARTY SCUM OF THE EARTH, $2,400 to Andrew Raczkowski, and $250 to Michele Bachmann's PAC.
James Lites - 10/2/1990 - $700 - Carl Levin (D)
Curtis Joseph and his wife - 4/21/2004 - $500 each to George W Bush
Florida Panthers
Michael "OH MY GOD SHUT UP ALREADY" Yormark gave $9,400 from 2006-2010 to Ron Klein (D), who is kind of scummy but likes Obama.
Michael Yormark - 3/27/2009 - $2,400 - Harry Reid (D)
Chuck Fletcher - 5/20/1996 - $400 - Lee Wasserman (3rd party)
Bill Torrey - about $1,000 from 1994-2002 to Republicans.
Los Angeles Kings
Charlie Jacobs - 6/13/1995 - $1,000 - Alfonse D'Amato (R)
Charlie Jacobs - 12/5/1997 - $1,000 - New York Salute 1998
Bruce McNall - 1992 - $2,000 - Dianne Feinstein (D)
Bruce McNall - 1992 - $2,000 - Gray Davis (D)
Minnesota Wild
Craig Leipold - SO MUCH MONEY TO REPUBLICANS 2008-2011, including $1,000 to Bachmann; one lone Democrat (Jon Hulburd) got $2,000
Robert Naegele - 2010 - $2,000 - Ron Johnson
Nashville Predators
Craig Leipold - something like $20,000 to the Republican Part of Wisconsin between 2007 and 2011. And also a whole bunch of stuff earlier than that, including $2,000 in 2003 to George W Bush.
New Jersey Devils
Matthew Lombardi - 8/4/2010 - $250 - Joseph Malone (R)
Jeffrey Vanderbeek - 10/30/2008 - $5,000 - New Jersey First (D)
Jeffrey Vanderbeek - 12/7/2007 - $2,300 - Mitt Romney
Jeffrey Vanderbeek - 2003/2004 - $6,000 - George W. Bush
New York Rangers
Chris Drury - 9/29/2008 - $500 - Republican National Committee
Glen Sather - 6/30/2007 - $2,000 - Hillary Clinton
Philadelphia Flyers
Jay Snider - 11/2/1990 - $1,000 - Steny Hoyer (D)
Robert Esche - 7/17/2006 - $1,000 - Raymond Meier (R)
Phoenix Coyotes
Richard Burke gave lots of money to John McCain over the past forever. Which isn't really surprising. Dear John McCain, please buy the Coyotes.
Pittsburgh Penguins
Ron Burkle and David Morehouse gave tons of money to Democrats, BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY, Georges Laraque gave $1,500 to Barack Obama because he's great.
Mario Lemieux - 3/30/2007 - $2,300 - Hillary Clinton
Mario Lemieux - 10/11/1999 - $500 - Rick Santorum
St Louis Blues
Chris Pronger - 2004 - $1,400 - Christopher "Kit" Bond (R)
Chris Pronger - 6/30/2005 - $500 - James Talent (R)
Tampa Bay Lightning
Jay Feaster - thousands to the Republican Party of Florida. WORTHLESS.
Washington Capitals
Ted Leonsis - 2/1/2011 - $1,000 - John Sarbanes (D)
Ted Leonsis - 9/19/2004 - $1,000 - Nick Clooney (D)
Other NHL
Brendan Shanahan - 2008 - $2,300 - Barack Obama
Mike Comrie - 11/30/2011 - $5,000 - Barack Obama
Mike Comrie - 11/30/2011 - $30,800 - DNC Services Corporation
Gary Bettman - 10/14/2008 - $2,300 - Norm Coleman (R)
Gary Bettman - 12/20/2002 - $1,000 - New Jersey Democratic State Committee
Gary Bettman - 3/16/1990 - $1,000 - Bill Bradley (D)