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With Chip: Show Me The Money Update!
By L. R. Petolicchio
Posted March 23, 2006
Updated April 17, 2006
Reposted February 5,
2008
Following is a breakdown
of financial contributions received (over $74,000) by state Senator
David J. "Chip" Brightbill between 2003 and 2005 either from gaming interests
or lobbyists whose clients include gaming interests (i.e.: many of the
lobbying firms have multiple clients, both gaming and non-gaming):
$2500 - April
1, 2004 - Wallace R. Barr, Executive head of Park
Place-Caesar's Entertainment (link is for parkplace.com; the homepage
for Harrah's will appear)
$1000 - August 26,
2004 -
Pennsylvania
Horsemen's Benevolent & Protective Association
$1000 - August 25,
2005 - Pennsylvania Horsemen's Benevolent & Protective Association
(while the PA chapter does
not have it's own website, the national group includes them as an affiliate
)
$723 - Sept. 30, 2003
- Pugliese Associates
$1000 - October 23,
2003 - Pugliese PAC
$1250 - March 15,
2005 - Pugliese PAC
$1264 - May 24, 2004
- Pugliese PAC
(Rocco
Pugliese currently represents Pennsylvania Horsemen's Benevolent &
Protective Association and Sands Pennsylvania; past clients included Multimedia
Games and Pittsburgh
Palisades Park, LLC)
$10,000 -
March 15, 2005 - D & L Realty
$10,000 - October
8, 2004 - D & L Realty
$5,000 - December
17, 2003 - D & L Realty
(Dominck & Louis A DeNaples
are reportedly business partners in at least three ventures - D & L
Realty, Keystone Landfill, and DeNaples Auto Parts; Louis owns the Mount
Airy Lodge, for which he has applied for a slots
license)*
$1000 - August
26, 2004 - Bruce R. Hironimus
(Hironimus
has been identified as both a lobbyist for the gambling interests as well
as a gambling interest )
$500 - Sept.
26, 2003 - F. Joseph Loeper
$500 - Dec. 17, 2003
- F. Jospeh Loeper
$1000 - April 1,
2004 - F. Joseph Loeper
$1000 - March 30,
2005 - F. Joseph Loeper
$1000 - November
4, 2005 - F. Joseph Loeper
(Loeper, a former state
Senator, was a lobbyist
for Callowhill Center Associates in 2004 and 2005 and a lobbyist 100% Purses,
Inc., dba Freedom Park and Chester Downs and Marina, LLC in 2003)
$3750 - Dec. 17, 2003
- Malady & Wooten Public Affairs, LLP
$1000 - Nov. 8, 2004
- Malady & Wooten Public Affairs, LLP
(Malady
& Wooten are lobbyist
for 100% Purses, Inc., dba Freedom Park,Chester Downs and Marina, LLC,
and Resorts USA)
$750 - April
21, 2003 - Kevin M. Pasquay
(Pasquay is a lobbyist
for Ameristar Casinos, Inc.)
$250 - Sept.
23, 2003 - Greenlee Partners State PAC
$2011 - Dec. 7, 2003
- Greenlee Partners State PAC
$750 - May 19, 2004
- Greenlee Partners State PAC
$1850 - August 26,
2004 - Greenlee Partners State PAC
$1500 - May 4, 2005
- Greenlee Partners State PAC
$1000 - August 25,
2005 - Greenlee Partners State PAC
(Greenlee
Partners lobbyist for Harrah's Entertainment, MTR Gaming, Chance Enterprises,
Standing Stone Gaming and Scientific Games Int'l.)
$250 - August
3, 2004 - Klett, Lieber, Rooney & Schorling PAC
(Klett, Lieber, Rooney &
Schorling law firm is a lobbyist
for Balyasny Asset Management and Venetian Resort Hotel and Casino)
$5000 - October
23, 2003 - Triad Strategies PA PAC
$5000 - September
24, 2004 - Triad Strategies PA PAC
$2500 - February
11, 2005 - Triad Strategies PA PAC
$1000 - August 12,
2005 - Triad Strategies PA PAC
(the following lobbyists
for Boyd Gaming Corporation made political contributions only to Triad
Strategies PAC [dollars are not indicative of monies paid on behalf of
Boyd Gaming]:
Michael Acker -
$2925 in 2003
Anthony Barbush, HBG - $2125
in 2005; $3250 in 2004; $3250 in 2003
Jonathan Bigley [VP at Triad]
- $5200 in 2005; $7750 in 2004; $6750 in 2003 Tim Bittle - $1200 in 2005;
$1300 in 2004; $850 in 2003
Thomas Blikle [two contributions
went outside of Triad] - $2500 in 2005; $3300 in 2004; $2750 in 2003
Virginia Jordan - $100 in
2005; $1250 in 2004; $1300 in 2003
Robert Keaton - $600 in
2005; $3100 in 2004; $2600 in 2003
Martin Sellers [Dir. at
Triad] - $9234 in 2004 [as Marty Sellers]; $7250 in 2003
Brad Shopp - $900 in 2004;
$3900 in 2003
Jere Strittmatter* - $5960
in 2005; $5140 in 2004; $500 in 2003
Roy Wells [Pres. at Triad]
- $40,000 in 2005; $39742 in 2004; $46536 in 2003)
$1000 - August
11, 2003 - Dechert
(lobbyist for Centaur, Inc
and PA Harness Horsemen's Assoc.)
$2500 - April 6, 2005
- Stephen R. Wojdak
$500 - November 1,
2005 - SRW & A PAC
$1000 - May 5, 2004
- SRW & A PAC
$750 - August 26,
2003 - SRW & A PAC
(Wojdak has an interest
in Liberty Gaming, and was the primary contributor to the SRW & A PAC)
$1000 - October 23,
2003 - Gary Loebig, Executive VP Sales, Multimedia
Games
$1000 - June 14, 2004
- C J Betters
$1000 - October 23,
2003 - C J Betters (Charles Betters [erroneously listed as J C Betters];
lobbyist exclusively for Pittsburgh Palisades Park LLC and for himself)
*former
State Rep., Republican, Lancaster County
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