According to the Hate Crime Statistics charts from the U.S. Department of Justice, Pullman, Wash. had 4 hate crimes in the years 2006 and 2007. Compared to other Washington State cities this is near the middle. There are many small towns with few incidents and the metropolitan areas have more incidents. All of the Pullman hate crimes were involved with sexual orientation.
According to Followthemoney.org, Christine Gregoire received 12,002,778 dollars in donations for the 2008 election. Her biggest contributor besides anonymous contributions and party contributions was from Amgen, a health care company. They gave 3,300 dollars. Dino Rossi received 11,599,166 dollars in donations for the 2008 contributions. Rossi's biggest donation from, besides party affiliated donations was from Associated General Contractors of Washington. They are a construction company and they gave 5,800 dollars.
In 2008 the forestry and forest products industry gave more money to the Republican Party. The Republican party also narrowly had more money in donations for Lobbyists and Public Relations than the Democrat Party.
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