Rep. Michele Bachmann went after Rick Perry on Monday night for the Texas governor’s ties to pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co. Inc. But Bachmann herself is no stranger to contributions from the pharmaceutical industry, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.
None of the roughly $146,400 the Minnesota lawmaker received from the pharmaceutical industry over the course of her career came from Merck, the nonpartisan research group said. Still, that sum ranks the pharmaceutical and health-products industry as her No. 15 career campaign contributor.
http://blogs.marketwatch.com/election/2011/09/13/bachmann-no-stranger-to-pharma-donations/
None of the roughly $146,400 the Minnesota lawmaker received from the pharmaceutical industry over the course of her career came from Merck, the nonpartisan research group said. Still, that sum ranks the pharmaceutical and health-products industry as her No. 15 career campaign contributor.
http://blogs.marketwatch.com/election/2011/09/13/bachmann-no-stranger-to-pharma-donations/
