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Pennsylvania's Top PACs

PENNSYLVANIA STATE EDUCATION ASSOCIATION $1,677,994
State teachers Union
$1,266,600
LABORERS DISTRICT COUNCIL
Building Trades Union
ELECTRICAL WORKERS LOCAL 98 $1,037,057
Building Trades Union
PENNSYLVANIA ASSOCIATION FOR JUSTICE  $1,005,882
Trail Lawyers
PENNSYLVANIA FUTURE FUND $951,064
Conservative causes PAC
METRO REGIONAL COUNCIL OF CARPENTERS & JOINERS $837,800
Building Trades Union
PHILADELPHIA TRIAL LAWYERS ASSOCIATION $642,490
Trail lawyers association 
KEYSTONE LEADERS PAC  $607,201
Liberal oriented PAC
WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA LABORERS $540,550
Building Trades Union
AFSCME COUNCIL 13  $     505,360
State Employees Union
PENNSYLVANIA BANKERS ASSOCIATION $468,169
Banks
PENNSYLVANIA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS $403,602
Realtors
INSURANCE FEDERATION OF PENNSYLVANIA $361,360
Insurance companies
PPL CORP $317,836
Pennsylvania Power and Light (Electric Utility)
PENNSYLVANIA AUTOMOTIVE ASSOCIATION $314,050
Auto dealers
PENNSYLVANIA BUILDERS ASSOCIATION $306,110
Residential housing builders
INT. BROTHERHOOD OF ELECTRICAL WORKERS $300,105
Building Trades Union
PENNSYLVANIA SERVICE EMPLOYEES $297,000
State and local government employees
S R WOJDAK & ASSOCIATES  $282,101
Philadelphia lobbying firm
PENNSYLVANIA ORTHOPAEDIC SOCIETY $272,400
Doctors
SUNOCO INC $271,375
Oil Company
ASSOC. OF PA. STATE COLLEGE &UNIVERSITY FACULTY $267,015
State university faculty union
HOSPITAL & HEALTH SYSTEM ASSOC OF PA $260,276
Hospitals
PENNSYLVANIA INSTITUTE OF CPAS $248,350
Accountants
PENNSYLVANIA BAR ASSOCIATION $237,005
Lawyers
PENNSYLVANIA CHAMBER OF BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $234,035
Business 
HIGHMARK $222,180
Health Care Company 
PAINTERS & ALLIED TRADES DISTRICT COUNCIL 21 $196,635
Building Trades Union
PENNSYLVANIA STATE TROOPERS ASSOCIATION $192,050
State police union
PENNSYLVANIA SOCIETY OF ANESTHESIOLOGISTS $191,850
Physicians
CITIZENS FOR A BETTER COMMONWEALTH $191,000
Lobbying firm
CAPITAL BLUE CROSS INDEPENDENCE BLUE CROSS $188,500
Health Insurance Company
PECO ENERGY $184,430
Philadelphia electric utility
PENNSYLVANIA AFL-CIO $182,862
Statewide union organization
PENNSYLVANIA ASSOCIATED BUILDERS & CONTRACTORS $180,030
Builders
PENNSYLVANIA FEDERATION OF TEACHERS $175,600
Teachers Union
COALITION FOR PENNSYLVANIA'S FUTURE  $162,370
Conservative causes 
STEAMFITTERS LOCAL 420  $     158,510
Building Trades Union
OPERATING ENGINEERS LOCAL 66 $139,905
Building Trades Union
STEAMFITTERS LOCAL 449
Building Trades Union $129,195
PA. BUILDING & CONSTRUCTION TRADES COUNCIL
Building Trades Union organization $128,537
PENNSYLVANIA LEADERSHIP PAC 
Conservative causes $126,255
PENNSYLVANIA ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY BANKERS
Banks $116,659
PENNSYLVANIA MOTOR TRUCK ASSOCIATION
Trucking firms $113,000
PENNSYLVANIA DENTAL ASSOCIATION
Dentists $112,850
PAC: PADPAC
PENNA STATE CORRECTIONAL OFFICERS ASSOC. $112,620
State Prison Guard Union
PENNSYLVANIA FINANCIAL SERVICES ASSOCIATION $109,458
Banks
FOOD & COMMERCIAL WORKERS LOCAL 1776 $108,810
State Liquor store and supermarket clerks union
IRONWORKERS LOCAL 401 $107,725
Building Trades Union
SPRINKLER FITTERS LOCAL 692 $104,150
Building Trades Union
Source: followthemoney.org/Pennsylvania 2008
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