Summary and Rankings of Kansas Political Action Committees

By Earl Glynn on July 28, 2010

Updated receipts and expenditure reports for Kansas Political Action Committees (PACs) were due on Monday at the Kansas Governmental Ethics Commission.

The Commission’s web page shows rows for 233 PACs, but only 176 filed receipts and expenditure reports as of 7/27/2010 5:20 PM. Several reports were still missing at that time.

PACs filing affidavits of exemption were ignored in this analysis. These PACs say they will not raise or spend $500 or more, or receive any contribution in excess of $50 from any one contributor. See this example Affidavit of Exemption.

Two complete lists of the PACs are shown below:

Alphabetical Listing of PACs showing the amount of money raised, spent and in the bank. In kind contributions are also shown. Comments are shown for money transfers of $10,000 or more, or for the 20 PACs associated with the Kansas National Education Association PAC.
Rank Order Listing of PACs gives the approximate ranking for each PAC. Separate rankings are given for money raised, spent and cash on hand. An overall rank is also shown.

Summary of Kansas Political Action Committees, July 2010 (Alphabetical Order)

The Top 10 PACs based on money raised, spent and in the bank are:

Kansas National Education Association PAC
International Brotherhood of Boilermakers Legislative Education Fund
Kansas Contractors Assn PAC
Bluestem Fund
Kansas Realtors PAC
Life Sciences Fund of the Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce
[this PAC operates both in Missouri and Kansas]
Kansas Chamber of Commerce PAC
Kansas Medical Society PAC
Kansas Optometric PAC
PMCA GAS PAC

See the complete list:

Ranks of Kansas Political Action Committees, July 2010

The overall ranking is the ranking of the products of each of the three ranks. For example, the #1 PAC has a rank product of 1*3*2 = 6, the #2 PAC has a rank product of 3*1*10 = 30, while the #3 PAC has a rank product of 4*2*5 = 40, …

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