West Publishing's Campaign Contributions

We have subsquently updated the August 16, 1994 report. Like the first report, we examine campaign contributions from:
• West Publishing Company
• West Publishing's PAC
• Members of the Opperman family (Until the sale of the company to Thomson, the Opperman family ran West Publishing. Dwight Opperman was the Chairman of the Board, and his son Vance was the President. The Opperman family members owned a very large share of the company).
• The Law Firm of Schatz, Paquin, Lockridge, Grindal, and Holstein (This law firm does much of West Publishing's legal work and was formerly called Opperman, Heins, and Paquin).
• The Schatz, Paquin, Lockridge, Grindal, and Holstein PAC
• Partners and family members of partners of Schatz, Paquin, plus Gerry Sikorski, an employee of Schatz Paquin who lobbies for West.

The following additional tables are now available:
• Who contributed and how much they gave

• Largest individual recipients

• Donations to the Democratic and Republican Parties

• Donations to members of the Senate Judiciary Committee

• Donations to members of the House Judiciary Committee

• Donations to members of the Senate Appropriations Committee

• Donations to members of the House Appropriations Committee

Note: These tables include contributions made from 1993 through the second quarter of 1996.
Source: Federal Elections Commission

For comments or corrections, contact Alex Roth at roth@essential.org. My personal home page is http://www.cptech.org/staff/alex.html.

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