January 22, 2010 08:19 PM UTC

Amigos Bennetistos

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• by: JO

Insomnia. Cure: Study FEC filings by Bennet for Colorado detailing individual contributions through the first three quarters of 2009.

Not just Bennet for Colorado, it turns out, but also Bennet for New York, Bennet for the Districolumbia, Bennet for California…friends from all over!

For the period in question, in fact, 1,458 separate contributions (counting each contribution separately; the number of unique individual contributors was somewhat less) came from outside Colorado; 1,079 contributions came from people inside Colorado. For the percentage minded that’s 57% of MB’s contributions came from outside Colorado; 43% from inside the state.

Similar figures for the amounts contributed. Individual contributors from Colorado gave a total of $1,140,782, or 40.4%. Individual contributors from outside the state gave a total of $1,680,956, or 59.6%.

Zippity-dough-voila! Of course, New York is a big state, and it’s not to say that Michael doesn’t have friends in Buffalo and Schnectady–to say nothing of Scarsdale–but some Zip codes in the Big Apple seem to jump out more often than others. 10028, for example, covering part of Manhattan’s Upper East Side (Fifth Avenue and Park Avenue included) generated a dozen contributions worth $23,650; 10065, also Upper East Side, another 17 contributions worth $25,150, whereas 10075 (Upper East Side again!) brought in 10 contributions worth $29,000. But, what about the Upper West Side, you ask? Well, 10025 brought in 30 contributions worth $33,650. Further uptown, but still part of the West Side Story, 10028 has 27 friends of Michael who last year gave $38,086.  

Pshaw! Who cares about Manhattan? What about Pueblo, right here in good ol’ Colorado, zip codes 81001-81012? Good question! Mike has friends in Pueblo, of course he does! SIX contributions from  Ray and Linda Kogovsek totalling $6,050! (Ray is a lobbyist with Kogovsek & Associates.) At least those are the ones I found; others may prove better dollar detectives.

But, hey, we natter on. No time to look at the DC contributions, which numbered 232 and were worth $263,758.