Hi Mary, > Well, for starters, I'd get the list of the CEO's, Board of Directors, and top executive staff of the Fortune 500--and >then go down from there. Can anyone who reads the Wall Street Journal regularly (I have, and do) and listened to >Friday night's "Wall Street Week in Review," with the WSJ's editorial board, really believe that the top--and >richest-- business leaders in this country are *Democrats*?? I sure don't.
You can download the Forbes 400 at their web site. My point is that the list of the very richest, mega billionaires, not country club millionaires, has been comprised of mostly Democrats for a number of years now. Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Summer Redstone and so on. I just think the myth that all or most of the rich are Republicans went out of date (or should have) many decades ago. I have a sense that the perception may differ based on geography. Certainly the mega billionaires and millionaires out here in the west are mostly Dems. Virtually all of the media, film, music and high tech big business moguls out here in the west are Dems. Maybe in the mid-west and the east it is different. I don't know about the Wal-Mart family's political affiliation, for example. Nonetheless, these are the people that have been at the top of the money list for a number of years now. Kakki
