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Paper: Insurers are big contributors to legislative candidates
2006-08-09
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Campaign finance advocates said it is no surprise that state lawmakers this year passed a wide-ranging bill that property insurance companies like, considering how much money insurers donate to legislative candidates. The help for property insurers follows a decade in which the industry gave $11.2 million to Florida candidates and state political parties, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reported Tuesday. Campaigns this year have received at least another $1.7 million from the industry, state records cited by the paper show. Roughly three of every four dollars given by the insurance industry have gone to Republicans over the past decade, the party overwhelmingly in charge of the Legislature for most of that time, the newspaper reported. The industry isn't close to being the largest giver to Florida campaigns - its $11.2 million was only about 2 percent of the total of more than $557 million in campaign contributions over the last decade.
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