Bennet Donors: Individuals
The nearly 3,500 Individual donors who gave between $200 and $4800 total to the Bennet campaign by the end of 2009 included senior executives, retirees, doctors, lawyers, venture capitalists, real estate professionals, consultants, education administrators and teachers, university professors, engineers, and community activists.
Denver-area companies and organizations with which some Bennet donors are affiliated include:
--Corporations such as Excel Energy, CH2M Hill, Lockheed Martin, Whiting Petroleum, Qwest, the Denver Newspaper Agency, and Liberty Media
--School districts such as Denver Public Schools
--Universities such as Colorado State University, the University of Colorado, and the University of Denver
--Medical establishments such as The Colorado Hospital Association, Denver Health, Kaiser Permanente, National Jewish, and Children’s Hospital
--Real Estate development companies such as West State Development, RDN Properties, Shames-Makovsky Realty Company, and Foundation Properties Inc.
--Financial institutions such as UMB Financial, COBank, and 1st National Bank
--Environmental groups such as The Wilderness Society, the Colorado Conservation Trust, and the Nature Conservancy
Individual donors from outside the state include:
--investment bankers in Hong Kong, Washington, DC and Los Angeles as well as in New York City at firms that include Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Bank of America/Merrill Lynch and Citigroup
--attorneys in London and in Washington, DC (including attorneys at the U.S. Department of Justice and at the State Department) as well as in CA, NY, MA, MD, VA, NJ, and TX
--film producers and production companies in Denver, Los Angeles, and New York City
--senior executives at the Anschutz Entertainment Group in Los Angeles, one of Bennet’s former employers
--multiple United Airlines senior executives in Chicago, including the president and the CEO
--the president of Combine International in MI
--oil and gas company executives in OK and TX
--commercial banking executives in NY, MA, OK, and at US Bank in MN
--senior executives at PhRMA (Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America) in Washington, DC
--professors at the American University in Silver Spring, MD as well as at Georgetown University in Washington, DC; Washington University in St. Louis; Stanford University; the University of Arizona; Yale; and Columbia
--physicians, including one at the Georgetown University Hospital
--property developers in CA, PA, CT, and Washington, DC
--the chancellor of the New York State Education Department Board of Regents
--educators and education administrators in New York City
--the president of Harrah’s Entertainment in New Orleans
--the CEO at IMAX Corporation in New York City
Out-of-state Individual donors were responsible for a total of approximately $2,200,000 in donations to the Bennet campaign as of December 31, 2009, or approximately 46% of the total raised.
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