2008 Election Cycle

Donors to DFER (PAC) during the 2008 election cycle  (via OpenSecrets.org)

Charles Gillman – Value Fund Advisors, Research – 1/18/08 – $5,000

James Ledley – Kleinberg Kaplan Wolff, Attorney – 3/31/08 – $5,000

Joanne Ackerman – Self-employed/Journalist – 7/30/07 – $5,000

Peter Ackerman – Rockport Capital, Inc, Managing Director – 7/30/07 – $5,000

Karen Ackman – Pershing Square, Founder – 12/13/07 – $5,000

William Ackman – Pershing Square, Investor – 12/19/07 – $5,000

Benjamin Appen – Magnitude Capital, Finance – 12/31/07 – $5,000

Dora Caceres – Self-employed/Homemaker – 8/23/07 – $5,000

Robert Goldstein – Gotham Capital, Attorney – 12/10/07 – $5,000

Stephanie Goldstein – Barclays Bank, Trader – 12/10/07 – $5,000

Joel Greenblatt – Gotham Capital, Investor – 12/10/07 – $5,000

Julia Greenblatt – Self-employed/Homemaker – 12/10/07 – $5,000

Charles Ledley – Cornwall Capital, Investor – 8/14/07 – $5,000

James Mai – Cornwall Capital, Investor – 7/10/07 0 $5,000

Rafael Mayer – Khronos LLC, Investor – 8/8/07 – $5,000

Yvette Mayer – Self-employed/Homemaker – 8/8/07 – $5,000

Christopher Stavrou – Self-employed/Investor – 12/15/08 – $5,000

Anthony Davis – Anchorage Capital, Investor – 8/21/07 – $5,000

Michael Novogratz – Fortress Investment Group, Investor – 8/23/07 – $5,000

John Petry – Gotham Capital, Investor – 8/13/07 – $5,000

Karen Petry – Self-employed/Homemaker – 8/13/07 – $5,000

Christopher Stavrou – Self-employed/Investor – 12/21/07 – $5,000

Whitney Tilson – T3 Partners, Investor – 8/31/07 – $5,000

Brian Zied – Maverick Capital, Investor – 8/8/07 – $5,000

Elisa Zied – Self-employed/Nutritionist – 8/8/07 – $5,000

Christopher Gabrieli – Massachusetts 2020 Foundation, Chair – 6/19/07 – $5,000

Charles Gillman – Boston Avenue Capital, Investor – 2/27/07 – $5,000

Cecilia Stone – Self-employed/Homemaker – 2/27/07 – $5,000

Maximilian Stone – D.E. Shaw, Finance – 2/27/07 – $5,000

Charles Ledley – Cornwall Capital, Investor – 8/4/08 – $5,000

Daniel Rothenberg – Pig Iron, Director – 12/31/07 – $3,500

Paula Rantz – Retired – 4/24/08 – $2,500

Jim Blew – Self-employed/Consultant – 6/8/08 – $1,000 (Director of K-12 education reform for Walton Family Foundation)

Sidney Gargiulo – Hawkshaw Capial, Analyst – 8/15/07 – $1,000

Todd Williams – Goldman Sachs, Investor – 9/14/07 – $1,000

Richard Murawczyk – Knott Partners, Analyst – 9/26/07 – $1,000

Angus Davis – Microsoft, Executive – 9/13/07 – $1,000

Jessica Segal – Morgan Stanley, Banking – 6/29/07 – $500

John Macintosh – Seachange Capital Partners – 4/16/08 – $500

Martha Revenaugh – Connections Academy, Vice President – 8/26/08 – $250

Joe Williams – Democrats For Education Reform, Executive – 12/13/07 – $250

Terri Dunham – Collaborative Communications Group – 9/17/07 – $250

David Smith – Jefferson Anesthesia, Physician – 7/31/07 – $250

Total: $163,000

Expenditures:

Education Reform Now Advocacy – $33,634

BRIDGE PAC – $10,000

Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee – $10,000

Democrats for Education Reform-NYS – $6,349

Donna Edwards for Congress – $5,000

Joshua Zeitz – $4,600

Tom Perriello – $4,600

Andrew David Kopplin – $3,000

James Clyburn – $2,300

Tom Harkin – $1,000

Mark Warner – $1,000

Charles Rangel – $750

Dan Maffei – $750