Michele Bachmann Bachmann no stranger to pharma donations

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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/
 
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A report on Tuesday said that Perry actually low-balled his contributions from Merck. Citing records from the Texas Ethics Commission compiled by the National Institute on Money in State Politics, National Journal reported that Perry got a total of $28,500 in contributions from the company’s political action committee from 2002 to 2010.
 
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