Team Owners Donate, Raise More Than $3.2M For McCain's Campaign
Data from the Federal Election Commission indicated that, through the end of June, team owners in the "four major sports and their families have given to or raised as much or more than $3.2[M]" for presumptive Republican presidential candidate JOHN MCCAIN, "compared with as much as $615,000 for his Democratic rival" BARACK OBAMA, according to Vogel & Lindsey of POLITICO.com. Sports owners "may not be John McCain's answer to the Hollywood elite, but they're overwhelmingly supporting his presidential campaign over Barack Obama's." Not only did McCain "raise more than Obama from the owners in each of the four major professional sports leagues analyzed, but McCain even raised six times more from the owners of teams in Obama's hometown of Chicago." Tribune Co. Chair SAM ZELL "gave more than $22,000 to McCain's committees." The owners of the pro teams in McCain's "hometown of Phoenix, however, were more united in their financial support, giving nothing to Obama, while contributing or raising as much as $550,000 for McCain" (POLITICO.com, 8/16).
DISCUSSING THE ISSUES: McCain Thursday at a party for "top-fundraisers" in Aspen, Colorado, "personally congratulated Jets owner WOODY JOHNSON for reeling in" QB BRETT FAVRE. A source said, "Brett was a big topic of conversation" (N.Y. POST, 8/17).
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