Senate millionaires
Wow - These guys must have been really successful in the private sector?
John Kerry, D-Massachusetts: $163,626,399
John Rockefeller, D -West Virginia: $81,648,018
Dianne Feinstein, D-California: $26,377,109
Frank Lautenberg, D-New Jersey $17,789,018
Edward Kennedy, D-Massachusetts: $9,905,009
http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/06/13/senators.finances/
2007-10-19 07:12:04 · 13 answers · asked by PNAC ~ Penelope 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Mitt Romney earned his money working for Bain Capital as it's CEO.
2007-10-19 07:20:53 · update #1
haaaa,good one,,love it...chow
2007-10-19 07:17:11 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Frank Lautenberg a trust fund baby? Get your facts straight.
"Lautenberg was born in Paterson, New Jersey to poor Jewish immigrants from Poland and Russia; his father Sam, who worked in silk mills, sold coal, farmed and once ran a tavern, died of cancer when Frank was 19. Lautenberg served overseas in the United States Army Signal Corps in World War II after graduating from high school in Nutley, NJ. Then, financed by the GI Bill, he attended and graduated from Columbia University in 1949 with a degree in economics. He co-founded the successful Automatic Data Processing, Inc. (ADP) and was its chairman and CEO. He was the executive commissioner of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey from 1978 to 1982."
I have nothing against rich people choosing careers in public service. They have the money and don't need to steal from the public.
2007-10-19 07:27:30 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Actually, Romney is the son of a former chairman of AMC, so he'd certainly classify as a trust fund baby. I'm not sure quite how wealthy Feinstein's father was, as he was a surgeon. He may have been wealthy, but probably not in the realm of the others you listed. It seems that your entire assertion is now based on three people. Nice going.
2007-10-19 07:45:49 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course you omitted these 22 Republicans who make up more than half of the 40 listed names. How non-partisan of you! You spinster you!
Peter Fitzgerald, R-Illinois: $26,132,013
Bill Frist, R-Tennessee: $15,108,042
Richard Shelby, R-Alabama: $7,085,012
Gordon Smith, R-Oregon: $6,429,011
Lincoln Chafee, R-Rhode Island: $6,296,010
Lamar Alexander, R-Tennessee: $4,823,018
Mike DeWine, R-Ohio: $4,308,093
Ben Campbell, R-Colorado: $3,165,007
Chuck Hagel, R-Nebraska: $2,963,013
Olympia Snowe, R-Maine: $2,955,037
James Talent, R-Missouri: $2,843,031
Arlen Specter, R-Pennsylvania: $2,045,016
Judd Gregg, R-New Hampshire: $1,916,026
John McCain, R-Arizona: $1,838,010
James Inhofe, R-Oklahoma: $1,570,043
John Warner, R-Virginia: $1,545,039
Kay Bailey Hutchison, R - Texas: $1,513,046
Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky: $1,511,017
Sam Brownback, R-Kansas: $1,491,018
Ted Stevens, R-Alaska: $1,417,013
Orrin Hatch, R-Utah: $1,086,023
Charles Grassley, R-Iowa: $1,016,024
2007-10-19 07:33:26 · answer #4 · answered by It's Your World, Change It 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
True "Trust Fund Babies", don't usually have any interest in politics, unless "Mums & Daddy" tell them too.
They live a life of indolent ease, and don't really care what "the HoiPolloi" are up too.
I don't know about some of your examples, but Kennedy, Lautenberg, Rockefeller and Kerry all inherited most of their bucks. Teddy probably had 20 times that much at one time, but :Dude knows how to ParTay !
2007-10-19 07:28:31 · answer #5 · answered by thehermanator2003 4 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Interestingly, the Rockefellers have been republicans and democrats. One of them was a republican governor of West Virginia.
(They are the trust fund babies of Standard Oil, one of the early American monopolies.)
The Kennedy's are the trust fund babies of Old Joe Kennedy, who was Roosevelt's Secretary of the Treasury. Before that, Joe was a mob money broker. Moving crime family money is how Joe made his fortune.
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Ooops, Joe was the first chairman of the SEC. My mistake.
2007-10-19 07:17:14 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Judging by your list of trust fund babies it appears they love the Democrats. That is what happens when one never had to live in the real world and make their own way. They have a complete lack of understanding of how most people in the USA live and that they don't need or want handouts from relatives or the government..........
2007-10-19 07:20:25 · answer #7 · answered by Brian 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
So you are complaining about Democrats having money?
Why?
Arent there plenty of rich Republicans who have never worked a day in their life also?
Both parties have rich families. You already know that!
2007-10-19 08:21:05 · answer #8 · answered by Jim W 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yeah, and mitt romney is worth $250,000,000.00!!!
you should read the article before posting a link to it. 22 of the 40 millionaires in the senate are REPUBLICANS! apparently you've taken after your hero G.W. and you never learned to read.
oh, and mahal you're wrong. old man joe kennedy made his money bootlegging alcohol durring the prohibition.
2007-10-19 07:18:24 · answer #9 · answered by Liberal & Proud! 5 · 6⤊ 2⤋
5 points to ask a question when you already have the answer. i think from that post we can figure out which party the unintelligent support.
2007-10-19 07:17:29 · answer #10 · answered by MyMysteryId 3 · 2⤊ 3⤋