Politics and Dodge Cummins Diesel

I recently found a really cool website that takes a specific URL for an article, blog post, website and does a political influence evaluation of the subject. In this case I used a recent blog post listing the twenty most popular articles I have written about the Dodge Cummins DPF problem on the 2007-2009 Dodge Ram 2500 and 3500 trucks. Since Cummins was listed in the URl of every post, it rang-up a BIG keyword and delivered some very interesting information.

1.   The Cummins company gave 52% of their political donations to the Democrats and 48% to the Republicans, so it was almost equally split on the preference scale.

2.  HOWEVER, the other interesting factors this SUNLIGHT FOUNDATION ( a non-partisan, not-for-profit foundation working for greater transparency in government) web analyzer delivered was the names of the lobbyists Cummins hired, how much they spent on lobbying efforts : over $12 million, what committees they lobbied and how much these PAC’s got in financial aid. EXAMPLE : CUMMINS  Most Frequently Disclosed Lobbying Issues:

• Fed Budget & Appropriations,
• Taxes,
• Trade,
• Energy & Nuclear Power,
• Defense,
• Homeland Security,
• Transportation,
• Environment & Superfund,
• Clean Air & Water,
• Foreign Relations

You can checkout the entire report here, but note the Sarah Lee listed isn’t me.  http://influenceexplorer.com/organization/cummins-inc/40037198ed524ad7998db17c908bd06b

or go to this URL :  http://influenceexplorer.com/    and put in your own URL’s, peoples names, companies or blog posts and see what you get for FUN FACTS…

BTW, Chrysler, Fiat, Dodge, Daimler and the lot are all heavily swayed to the Republican side although their donations were relatively small compared to Cummins.