DNR
Watch
Inside Governor Thompson's
DNR
The Natural Resource
Accountability Project
Research Report No. 1
August, 1998
Thompson Defends Fox River Polluters
Against Responsible Cleanup
The Paper Money Trail - Political Campaign Contributions
to the Governor
Paper Money
Fox River Polluters and Governor Thompson
Money from Paper Allies
Landfills and the Governor
Paper Money
Contributions for Gov. Thompson's and Lt. Gov. McCallum's
Re-election Campaigns, 1990 thru 1997, from executives,
leaders and Political Action Committees in the pulp,
paper, paper coating, and converting industry
Donors' Corporations
Dollars
Appleton Papers
$100
AT&T (NCR Corp.)
4,349
Beck Carton Corp.
250
Bemis Corp.
6,650
Consolidated Paper
7,401
C&H Packaging
500
Dunsim Industries
500
Fiberesin Industries
500
Fort Howard Corp. (Ft. James)
32,335
Fox River
100
Fox River Paper Co.
100
Fox Valley Corp.
200
Georgia-Pacific
1,000
Great Northern Container
200
Green Bay Packaging
8,550
Hayes Manufacturing
975
International Paper
1,000
Jefferson Smurfit
100
Kell Container Corp.
3,500
Kimberly Clark Corp.
700
Little Rapids Corp.
4,600
Menasha Corp.
6,750
Midland Container
625
Milwaukee Envelope
500
Mosinee Paper Corp.
13,450
Nekoosa Corp.
8,108
Nichols Paper Products
8,200
Packaging Corp. of America
3,350
Pacon
490
Paper Converting Machine Co.
3,000
Phoenix Products Co.
1,000
Ponderosa Fibres-America
1,000
Pope & Talbot Inc.
100
PPC Industries
150
Proctor & Gamble
125
Quincy Container Corp.
100
Repap Enterprises
3,000
Rhinelander Paper
500
Riverside Paper
250
Shade Business Forms
500
Specialty Packaging Group
100
Stearns Packaging Corp.
500
Tekra Corp.
4,350
TFIC Corp.
500
US Paper Mills Corp.
3,000
Wausau Coated Products
1,000
Wausau Paper
8,250
Wisconsin Converting Co.
100
Wisconsin Paperboard Corp.
3,850
Wisconsin Tissue Mills
4,995
Wright Brothers Paper Box
4,100
________________________________________________
Total
$155,553
Source: the Wisconsin Cooperative Campaign Finance
Database, a joint
project of Wisconsin Democracy Campaign and Wisconsin
Citizen Action,
funded by the Joyce Foundation. (7)
Fox
River Polluters
and Governor Thompson
Contributions for Gov. Thompson's and Lt. Gov.
McCallum's Re-election Campaigns, 1990 thru 1997,
from executives, leaders and Political Action Committees
of the seven corporations named as "potentially
responsible parties" in the federal Superfund process
Donors' Corporations
Dollars
Appleton Papers
$100
AT&T (owned NCR Corp.)
4,349
Fort Howard Corp. (Ft. James)
32,335
Riverside Paper
250
US Paper Mills Corp.
3,000
P.H. Glaffelter Co.
0
Wisconsin Tissue Mills
4,995
________________________________________________
Total
$45,029
Source: The Wisconsin Cooperative Campaign
Finance Database (7)
Money
from Paper Allies
Contributions for Gov. Thompson's and
Lt. Gov.
McCallum's Re-election Campaigns, 1990
thru 1997,
from executives and leaders in these industries
Donor Category
Dollars
Banking & Finance
$970,342
Lawyers, Law Firms, & Lobbyists
644,704
Insurance Companies
324,520
Tourism Industry
432,923
Realtors
406,339
_________________________________________________
Total
$2,778,828
Source: The Wisconsin
Cooperative Campaign Finance Database (7)
Landfills
and the Governor
Contributions for Gov. Thompson's and
Lt. Gov. McCallum's
Re-election Campaigns, 1990 thru
1997, from leaders in solid waste
landfill businesses and landfill engineering
firms
Donors' Corporations
Dollars
Ayres Associates
$11,555
Browning Ferris Industries (BFI)
4,620
Cedar Corporation
100
Central Wisconsin Engineers
2,000
CH2M Hill
4,000
Delta Environmental
180
Donohue Engineers & Architects
2,200
Foth & Van Dyke
3,350
Montgomery Watson
600
Rust Environmental & Infrastructure
20,190
STS Consultants
1,750
Superior Services
100
Terra Engineering & Construction
3,300
Vijay Environmental
2,740
Waste Management Inc. (also WMX)
80,000
Wheeling Disposal Service
1,000
Woodward-Clyde
700
Zenith Kremer Waste System
100
________________________________________________
Total
$138,485
Report Sections
The Purpose of this
Report
Twelve Years of Delay
- A Fox River Clean-up Timeline
Deals, Consultants,
Paper Industry Allies, and Tourism
The Health Risks
of PCBs and Landfilling Contaminated Sludge
Legislative Connections,
Paper Company Economics, and Industry Control of the Process
The Fed's Step In
Conclusions and Recommendations
The Paper Money
Trail - Political Campaign Contributions to the Governor
DNR Report Study
Methods
References
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