It's been 11 years since the Padres were number 1 at anything, but new owner John Moores tops the list of professional baseball team owners who contributed money to federal candidates or a national party committee. So says a study by the Center for Responsive Politics. Moores gave $28,280 during the 1993-1994 tracking period, all to Democrats; members of his family chipped in another $29,980. Quips James A. Barnes in the National Journal, "Club owners, who have pleaded collective near-poverty in their current labor dispute with the players, were much more willing to reach into their pockets for gifts to the pols." Moores' largess toward the Democrats is famous; aside from his donations on the national level, Moores last year blew more than $200,000 on losing gubernatorial runs by Kathleen Brown in California and incurribentAnn Richards in Texas. who lost to the son of former president Bush, Neil Bush.
It's been 11 years since the Padres were number 1 at anything, but new owner John Moores tops the list of professional baseball team owners who contributed money to federal candidates or a national party committee. So says a study by the Center for Responsive Politics. Moores gave $28,280 during the 1993-1994 tracking period, all to Democrats; members of his family chipped in another $29,980. Quips James A. Barnes in the National Journal, "Club owners, who have pleaded collective near-poverty in their current labor dispute with the players, were much more willing to reach into their pockets for gifts to the pols." Moores' largess toward the Democrats is famous; aside from his donations on the national level, Moores last year blew more than $200,000 on losing gubernatorial runs by Kathleen Brown in California and incurribentAnn Richards in Texas. who lost to the son of former president Bush, Neil Bush.
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