A Donnelly Watch reader alerted us to some interesting information regarding Rep. Donnelly’s fundraising. According to information made available electronically by Federal Election Commission on June 24, 2008, 61% of Donnelly’s fundraising comes from Political Action Committees (PACs).
Interestingly, Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama has rejected PAC money.
Why isn’t Rep. Donnelly following Sen. Obama’s lead?
Rep. Donnelly’s opponent, Luke Puckett has received only 1% of his fundraising total from PAC contributions.
Furthermore, Rep. Donnelly’s top contributor thus far is the Renco Group, a New York City-based holding company controlled by Ira Rennert.
From Rennert’s wikipedia entry:
Rennert was awarded the The Awful Truth Man of Year Award in 1999 by filmmaker Michael Moore, based on a 1996 EPA Report which lists Magnesium Corp Of America as the top single polluting industrial facility in the United States and a second EPA report from the same year which lists Renco Group Inc. as the top most polluting parent company (based on total on-site and off-site releases)
The Renco Group is essentially a holding group that owns other companies, such as Doe Run, and used to own AM General, manufacturer of the Hummer. Ira Rennert, bought AM General for $133 million in 1992. Ronald Perelman, a Wall Street corporate raider, bought a 70 percent interest in AM General of Mishawaka, Indiana. The deal reportedly cost close to US$1,000,000,000. The company makes the military Humvee, as well as the Hummer H1 and H2 sold by General Motors. In February 2008 the Company acquired Delphi’s interiors and closures business which has been renamed Inteva Products, LLC.
The Renco Group’s wikipedia entry includes the following section under the heading “Pollution.”
The Renco Group also owns mills and mines in the United States and South America, and pollution problems at the company’s properties have sparked public outcries, environmental lawsuits, and hundreds of millions of dollars in environmental penalties and fines. One Renco subsidiary, U.S. Magnesium, is accused of polluting the Great Salt Lake.
Smelting operations by another Renco subsidiary, Doe Run Company, have caused are responsible for elevated levels of lead, arsenic, and cadmium in Herculaneum, Missouri and elevated levels of lead, copper, zinc, and sulfur dioxide in La Oroya, Peru and Doe Run, Missouri.
In 2007, La Oroya was listed by Blacksmith Institute as one of the “World’s Worst Polluted Places.”
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POLLUTION TO THE OROYA CITY PERÚ
The years 2006 and 2007 the Blacksmith Institute have accomplished a research about the cities more contaminated to the world and arrived to the conclusion that the Oroya city was between the 10 cities more polluted of the world and, the environment Graffiti 2008 said that is between five more pollute too to the world and the 2008 Blacksmith Institute and Green Cross Switzerland say that Oroya is between the most polluted of the world. This qualifications are benevolents; according to my researchs to many years who I am publishing, the Oroya city is the more polluted to Peru, Latin America and of the world and every day is being more polluted: lead in blood in children in the Ancient Oroya in average 53.7 ug/dl ( DIGESA 1999); pregnancies women 39.49 ig/dl ( UNES 2000), new borns children 19.06 ug/dl, puerperal 319 ug/100 grams/placenta ( Castro 2003) and workers 50 ug/dl ( Doe Run 2003).Top lead in blood accepted 10 ug/dl; present day is 0 ug/dl ( Pediatric of Academy to USA)
When the Oroya city was in hands to the CentroMin eliminated only by the upper chimney to 167.500 meters, in average by day in tons: sulfur dioxide 1000, lead 2500, arsenic 2500, cadmium 40, particulate matter 50 and so on, more 24,000 to toxis gas product to the incomplete combustion of the coal, without count it is eliminated by industrial incinerator y by the 97 smalls chimneys, it is estimated 15,000; overall 45,000 tons for day (PAMA . El Complejo Metalúrgico de la Oroya, 1996); other research say that by this chimney only eliminate overall 119¨917,440 tons too every day to a velocity to 8.7 meters by second ( Chuquimantari C. Yauli-La Oroya Minería y Ciudades Empresas Pág. 57, 1992)
Doe Run envoy every three months the concentrations of the heavy metals to the Ministry to the Energy and Mines and with the sames datums Ceverstav have demostrated the pollution was increased; for example the sulfur dioxide it have increased in near to 300 %, by increment to the production (Cederstav. La Oroya no Espera 2002
The American Association to the Environment say that the environmental quality to the Oroya it is serious deteriorated since that Doe Run was owner and the same enterprise
declared that the concentrations of the heavy metals gas it is ncreased in the air: lead 1160 %, cadmium 1990 % and arsenic 6006 % (Portugal, et al. Los Humos de Doe Run 2003)
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