Who Fills the Bush War Chest? : Top 10 Corporate Donors

Here are the top contributors of soft money to the Republican Party. So-called soft money is given to a party rather than to an individual candidate. But it has emerged as a primary means of bolstering federal funds that each party is given for the fall presidential campaign:

1. Archer-Daniel-Midland $1,012,000 Agricultural products 2. American Financial Corp. $715,000 Insurance/finance 3. Internationa Marketing Bureau $603,770 * 4. RJR Nabisco $426,100 Tobacco/food 5. UST Inc/US Tobacco Co. $408,174 Tobacco 6. Merrill Lynch & Co. $399,100 Securities 7. Atlantic Richfield $371,000 Oil and gas 8. Joseph E. Seagram & Sons $355,500 Liquor 9. Philip Morris $292,330 Tobacco 10. Brown-Forman Corp. $240,216 Liquor

* Principal contributor is Michael Kojima, a Los Angeles businessman. His donations have been put into escrow because of lawsuits he faces.

Lawyers, Lobbyists Lead Lawyers/Lobbyists: $1,369,001 Retirees: $1,172,245 Securities and investment: $775,700 Health professionals: $682,473 Real estate: $567,845 Oil and gas: $535,882 Miscellaneous manufacturing: $477,705 Insurance: $349,500 Commercial banks: $337,450 Business services: $313,745

Top Three States Texas: $2.5 million California: $2.4 million New York: $2.3 million Footnote: Figures for professions and states are through May

Sources: Center for Responsive Politics, National Library on Money & Politics