Lobbying Disclosures

The Indianapolis Star has compiled data on lobbying money spent on legislators. From that data, I made a list of those legislators who received more than (the arbitrary amount of) $1,500 in reported gifts. The list also includes the primary form of the gifts and the major lobbyists. Please note that the gifts and lobbyists aren’t exhaustive, so in many cases there were other forms of gifts and other lobbyists that make up the total dollar amount.

Sen. Brandt Hershman $1,795.98
Sporting event tickets, Indiana Energy & AT&T

Sen. David Long $1,597.70
Charity golf tournament & dinners, Indiana Banker’s Association

Sen. Vi Simpson $2,847.35
Meals & transportation; Indiana Motor Truck Assoc.

Sen. Greg Taylor $1,550.57
Meals with Baker & Daniels

Rep. Terri Austin $2,433.98
Meals, airfare, hotel; Indiana Motor Truck Assoc.

Rep. B. Patrick Bauer $5,223.05
DNC and Obama inauguration; Indiana Motor Truck Assoc.

Rep. Robert Cherry $2,615.22
Ryder Cup; Duke Energy

Rep. Jeff Espich $2,362.74
Meals, airfare, hotel; Indiana Motor Truck Assoc.

Rep. L. Jack Lutz $2,823.97
Dinners and sports tickets; AT&T, IPALCO

Rep. David Niezgodski $3,109.22
Indy 500; AT&T

Rep. Greg Porter $2,527.91
Symphony tickets, DNC; AT&T, Roche Diagnostics

Rep. Dan Stevenson $1,787.93
Sporting events; Indiana Energy

Rep. Eric Turner $1,570.80
Sporting event tickets; Indiana Energy Association

Rep. Trent Van Haaften $4,335.33
Inaugural Ball & DNC; AT&T

Rep. Peggy Welch $1,533.14
Sporting event tickets; Indiana Energy Association

Rep. David Wolkins $3,231.75
Ryder Cup, Duke Energy

The major contributors by quite a bit were the following entities:
Indiana Motor Truck Association – $11,660
Duke Energy – $12,168
Indiana Energy Association – $13,579
AT&T – $15,600.

It looks like the House ($61,489) got a lot more love than the Senate ($27,118) and a several of the Democrats put up big numbers associated with events having to do with the Presidential election and inauguration.