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Friday, March 19, 2010

Twenty Who Gave Plenty

by Matt Stiles
January 26, 2010  |  1

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If you've been paying attention to Texas politics, you know that candidates collected millions in campaign cash during the last six months of 2009, and that the men and women at the top of the ballot — the ones running for governor — are at the highest point on the political food chain. 

Who's feeding them? Who wrote the most — or the largest — checks? We looked at the latest Texas Ethics Commission filings, filtered out contributions to PACs and trade groups and came up with a list of the top 20 donors to elected officials and other candidates from July ...

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  • deborahcalvert wrote on 1/29/2010 2:16 p.m.

    A public corporation, Sun Healthcare Group Inc, aka SUNH, gives money to politicians through their P.A.C., for which I've asked them all to return, since it is blood money that came from my mother's death and other patients who died when Sun violated a California State Injunction in 2003. The Dept of Justice turned a blind eye and never fined or punished Sun for these deaths. Why? Political corruption.

    I've asked the Grand Jury and Orange County DIstrict Attorney to indict the CEO of Sun Healthcare Group Inc, Rick Matros for perjury, obstruction of justice and manslaughters this month, January, 2010.

    Read my blog site at
    http://www.sunhealthcaregroupinc.blogspot.com

    Deborah Calvert
    Newport Beach, California

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