Government by Corporate Imperium: Part I on WA 42nd

The ALEC Factor: "Out of State Donations" to the WA 42nd 

The Natalie McClendon campaign has maintained that current 42nd WA representative Jason Overstreet is receiving out of state corporate funding for his campaign.  After examining the data and their rhetoric, I think the question 42nd district residents should be asking is:

Are the legislators from Lynden, WA  (Jason Overstreet and Vincent Buys) simply surrogate corporate Christians pumping their brand of religion, social austerity, limited government, and free markets as a 'quid pro quo' for the support of  the corporate agenda of the American Legislative Exchange Council?

In this post , I discuss "out of state" donations to candidates for 42nd Legislative District. ( I discuss "out of county" donations here.)  All WA PDC data below is from October 22, 2012 . For the curious, a technical discussion of the Powershell 3.0, .NET 4.0 code I am used for this data analysis is here.  Please do not quote or rely on this data without calculating your own numbers from a PDC dataset first. (Linking and referencing this post URL is okay.)

The first table gives the nominal value of contributions received by candidates in the WA  42nd for the 2012 campaign that originate from outside WA State. Charts for this and the following data table are far below:

Candidate                      $ "Out of State" Contributions 
NM                             2750
MDK                            5490.5
JEO                            15450
VKB                            16250

The second table gives the percentage value of contributions received by candidates in the 42nd that originate from outside WA State:

Candidate                      % "Out of State" Contributions
NM                             5.919899
MDK                            9.436039
JEO                            24.61685
VKB                            22.90073

The data reveals a stunning difference in out of state contributions between  the Democrats-McClendon/Krogh ($8240) vs. Republicans-Overstreet/Buys ($31,700).  The depth of the Republicans out of state contributions  is significant. If we look at the Buys/Overstreet out of state donations side by side, we see considerable amount of overlap not only in corporation names but in dollar amounts.

Buys,Overstreet,McClendon,Krogh: 'Out of State Donations' (e.g. 'not listed as 'WA') for 2012 Legislative Campaign. From 10/22/2012 PDC data. The chart lists # of Donations, Contributor, Amount for each candidate.

VKB JEO NM MDK 2 NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA, CA, 900 2 NRA - POLITICAL VICTORY FUND, VA, 900 1 WEBB LISA, MT, 100 2 WILKINSON KIM, , 50 1 WASHINTON FOODPAC, OR, 500 1 WASHINGTON FOODPAC, OR, 500 1 VASKAS JANET, PA, 100 2 WERNER ELIZABETH, CA, 100 1 WAL-MART STORES INC, AK, 800 1 WAL-MART STORES INC, AR, 800 1 VASKAS ALAN, PA, 100 2 KROGH PETER, CA, 100 1 TESORO COMPANIES INC, LA, 250 1 UP RAILROAD COMPANY, NE, 250 1 TURNER ZACHARY M, CO, 900 2 FULLENWIDER PETER, OR, 800 1 SOUTHERN SPIRITS OF AMERICA INC, FL, 250 1 TESORO COMPANIES INC, TX, 250 1 TERESA JUDITH, WV, 50 2 BERKMAN ALEC, CA, 100 1 PROPERTY CASUALTY INSURERS ASSOC OF AMERICA, IL, 250 1 SOUTHERN WINE & SPIRITS OF AMERICA INC, FL, 500 1 SOTO JLEANA, CA, 100 1 WELLS JAMES, WI, 100 1 PHILIP MORRIS USA, VA, 800 1 PMSA WASHINGTON STATE PAC, CA, 250 1 MCCLENDON SUSAN, GA, 500 1 TULCHIN ANDREW, NM, 50 1 PFIZER INC, NY, 800 1 PHILIP MORRIS USA, VA, 800 1 ATU, DC, 900 1 TALLEY RICHARD, MD, 50 1 NOVARTIS PHARMACEUTICALS CORP, NJ, 500 1 PFIZER INC, NY, 900 1 SHAYS MARY, CA, 200 1 LIBERTY MUTUAL GROUP INC, NH, 800 1 OVERSTREET J.J. MR, CA, 800 1 SHASTA SOFTWARE, CA, 30 1 DOCPAC, CA, 300 1 OVERSTREET J.J. MR, CA, 100 1 SEGAL ALEXIS K, FL, 60.5 1 CONOCOPHILLIPS COMPANY, CA, 800 1 NOVARTIS PHARMACEUTICALS CORP, NJ, 500 1 NIENSTEDT CHRISTINE, ID, 50 1 COMCAST, PA, 700 1 NOVARTIS PHARMACEUTICALS CORP, NJ, 300 1 NEWMAN CHRISTIAN, FL, 100 1 CASH AMERICA, TX, 400 1 ENTERTAINMENT SOFTWARE ASSN, DC, 400 1 MILLER MARILYN, CA, 50 1 CAMBIA HEALTH SOLUTIONS, OR, 900 1 DOCPAC OF WA, CA, 300 1 MAZZAG BORI, CA, 50 1 BURLINGHAM MARCHETA, CA, 500 1 CONOCOPHILLIPS COMPANY, TX, 800 1 LINN GRACE, FL, 50 1 BP NORTH AMERICA EMPLOYEE PAC, TX, 900 1 COMCAST FINANCIAL AGENCY CORP, PA, 400 1 LINN FREDERICK, FL, 50 1 BP NORTH AMERICA EMPLOYEE PAC, TX, 350 1 CAMBIA HEALTH SOLUTIONS, OR, 900 1 LAKE HENRY, SC, 100 1 BP NORTH AMERICA EMPLOYEE PAC, TX, 250 1 BP EMPLOYEE PAC, TX, 900 1 KROGH PETER, CA, 600 1 BNSF RAILWAY CO, TX, 500 1 BP EMPLOYEE PAC, TX, 350 1 KROGH EGIL, DC, 800 1 ASURION, TN, 900 1 BP EMPLOYEE PAC, TX, 250 1 KROGH EGIL, DC, 100 1 ANHEUSER-BUSCH COS INC, CA, 800 1 BNSF RAILWAY CO, TX, 500 1 KIMSEY ROBERT, UT, 100 1 ALTRIA CLIENT SERVICES INC, VA, 800 1 ANHEUSER-BUSCH COS INC, MO, 900 1 GLENN HANSEN NANCY, DC, 200 1 ALLSTATE, IL, 500 1 ANHEUSER-BUSCH COS INC, MO, 800 1 FOGELBERG PAUL, MN, 100 1 ABBOTT LABRATORIES, IL, 500 1 ALTRIA CLIENT SERVICES INC, VA, 800 1 EVERITT DAVID, UT, 300 1 7-ELEVEN INC, TX, 400 1 7-ELEVEN INC, TX, 400 1 BARTOW PHILIP, PA, 50

The Buys-Overstreet ALEC Corporate Team?

Are the legislators from Lynden simply surrogate corporate Christians pumping their brand of religion, austerity, limited government, and free markets as a 'quid pro quo' for  the support of the corporate agenda of the American Legislative Exchange Council?  I divided up the Buys/Overstreet contributors into arbitrary industrial groups. A following asterisk represents a corporation or industry trade group that donated to both Republican candidates.

Company Type	Company	ALEC Ties
Retail	Southern Spirits(*), Anheuser-Busch(*),7-ELEVEN(*),Washington FOOD PAC(*),WALMART(*)	# Anheuser-Busch,WALMART have ALEC ties according to Sourcewatch
Insurance and Health	AllState,Property Casualty Insurers Assoc.,Liberty Mutual, Cambia Health(*)	# Property Casualty Insurers Assoc. is an ALEC trade group according to SourceWatch
Tobacco,Retail	Phillip Morris(*), Altria(*)	# Altria and its (former?) subsidiary Phillip Morris have ALEC ties according to Sourcewatch
Pharmaceutical	PFizer(*), Novartis Pharma(*), ABBOTT Labs	# PFizer,  Novartis, Abbott Labs  have ALEC ties according to Sourcewatch
Telecom	Comcast(*), Asurion	# Comcast has ALEC Ties according to SourceWatch
Energy	BP North America Employee PAC, TESORO, Conoco Phillips	# Conoco Phillips , BP have ALEC ties according to Sourcewatch
Transportation	BNSF(*),UP RAILROAD COMPANY (Union Pacific)	# BNSF and Union Pacific have ALEC ties according to Sourcewatch
2nd Amendment Lobbyist	National RIFLE ASSOCIATION of AMERICA, NRA POLITICAL VICTORY FUND	# NRA has ALEC ties according to Sourcewatch
Industry Trade Group	Entertainment Software ASSN.	# ALEC Trade Group according to Sourcewatch

The  charts below effectively illuminate how much more Republican candidates Overstreet and Buys are dependent on "out of state" corporate donations than Democrat candidates McClendon and Krogh: