Top Business Donors in the Midterm Elections

 

Company     Total          Dems           Repubs       %Dem          %Repub

Grain Communications Group    $80,000 $64,700 $15,300 81%      19%

Beall’s Inc**       $79,250 $0         $78,750 0%       99%

Neal Communities         $64,850 $0         $60,050 0%        93%

Center for Sight $54,550 $0         $50,800 0%       93%

Benderson Development           $48,000 $0         $24,000 0%        50%

Medallion Homes          $39,400 $0         $34,600 0%       88%

JCI Jones Chemicals     $37,000 $0         $37,000 0%        100%

Renco Group                $36,600 $22,000 $14,600 60%      40%

Sarasota Development Corp      $26,900 $0         $17,300 0%        64%

Sunovia Energy Technologies    $24,250 $24,250 $0         100%    0%

Intershow Inc     $23,100 $0         $18,300 0%        79%

Aurus Advisors             $22,800 $0         $22,800 0%       100%

Shapiro, Goldman et al  $22,600 $3,400  $0         15%      0%

Physicians Group LLC   $18,700 $4,000  $9,900  21%      53%

Mabry Carlton Ranch     $16,400 $0         $6,800  0%        41%

Clark & Weinstock         $16,000 $16,000 $0         100%    0%

Youth Services International       $14,700 $300     $14,400 2%        98%

Re/Max $14,400 $0         $14,400 0%       100%

Dolphin Aviation            $13,400 $0         $13,400 0%        100%

Consult Ltd       $12,500 $0         $0         100%    0%      

Halfacre Construction    $10,700 $0         $10,450 0%        98%

Boar’s Head Provisions             $10,600 $10,600 $0         100%    0%

Udell Assoc      $10,350 $0         $10,350 0%        100%

Coastal Construction Group       $10,100 $0         $5,300  0%       52%

Ceres    $10,000 $0         $10,000 0%        100%

Delicatessen Services   $10,000 $10,000 $0        100%    0%

Metz Group       $10,000 $0         $10,000 0%        100%

Risk Services    $10,000 $0         $10,000 0%       100%

Sanborn Enterprises      $10,000 $0         $10,000 0%        100%

*Ranking includes the top 29  business donors in Sarasota and Manatee. **In some cases the percentages to do not add up to 100 percent because businesses contributed

to third-party or independent candidates such as Gov. Charlie Crist, or to independent federal party committees. Source: Center for Response Politics (opensecrets.org)