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Tuesday, September 14, 2004

Non-baseball: Full disclosure

You may have seen this ESPN article which finds that MLB owners have donated to Republican causes at a far greater rate than Democratic ones. That's not much of a surprise, as Bush is the former owner of the Texas Rangers, and baseball players and insiders have skewed to the right for as long as anyone can remember.

Strangely, Arte Moreno was not mentioned in the piece despite the fact that he is an out-spoken supporter of the President, even once enjoying a lunch with Mr. Bush.

I did a little bit of digging, and here's what I found:

  • Mr. Moreno has given at least $21,000 to political causes in this election cycle.

  • His single largest donation was $10,000 to the Arizona Republican Party.

  • Moreno has given $2,000 to Bush/Cheney '04 primary campaign- the maximum allowed under campaign finance laws. There is no record of a contribution to the Bush/Cheney general election campaign as of today.

  • He has made at least $2,000 in contributions to the re-election campaign for Arizona Senator Jon Kyl, a Republican. Strangely, there seems to be two separate FEC filings for this contribution.

  • Finally, Mr. Moreno made a $5,000 contribution to the "Office of the Commissioner of Major League Baseball Political Action Committee"- a non-partisan PAC that fights for MLB's political interests. Judging from the PAC's other filings, I'd say they have an interest in keeping the status-quo.

  • Mr. Moreno's wife, Carole, has made matching contributions to all those causes, plus a $500 contribution to "John Shadegg Friends"- the re-election campaign of Arizona representative John Shadegg, a Republican. Mrs. Moreno's contributions total $21,500.
Have I ever mentioned how much I love Arte Moreno?

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