Richard Lugar
U.S. Senator
Republican, Indiana
- Date of Birth: April 4, 1932
- Birthplace: Indianapolis, Ind.
- First Elected: 1976
Committee Assignments:
Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
Campaign Fundraising
2005 - Present| Top 5 Organizations | PACs | Individuals | Total |
| Barnes & Thornburg | $2,500 | $39,800 | $42,300 |
| Eli Lilly & Co | $9,000 | $26,350 | $35,350 |
| Ice Miller | $0 | $31,500 | $31,500 |
| Cinergy Corp | $8,250 | $16,000 | $24,250 |
| Baker & Daniels | $3,000 | $17,788 | $20,788 |
| Top 5 Industries | PACs | Individuals | Total |
| Retired | $0 | $93,855 | $93,855 |
| Lawyers & Law Firms | $6,750 | $26,450 | $33,200 |
| Real Estate | $2,500 | $25,000 | $27,500 |
| Chemicals | $3,500 | $19,600 | $23,100 |
| Lobbyists | $1,000 | $20,600 | $21,600 |
Richard Lugar in the News
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Influential Conservative Group Endorses Lugar Challenger
February 14, 2012
Anti-tax advocacy group endorses conservative challenger to long-time Indiana senator. -
Milligan: Tea Party Harms 2012 Prospect of a GOP Senate
December 27, 2011
Tea Party extremists are doing the Republican Party more harm than good in the upper chamber. - Sen. Lugar won't attend conservative convention in Indiana The group tells CNN that their convention will be held on September 24th in Greenfield, Indiana and that it will include both a convention style format and a straw poll, with two delegates each from 55 tea party groups from…
- Tom Friedman Continues to Give Cover to the Extremism of the Republican Party Click here to view this media It looks like Tom Friedman has a new book to sell, so naturally that meant that Howard Kurtz just had to give him two full segments on this weekend's Reliable Sources to sell the CNN viewers on some more of his Third Way nonsense that he and a bunch of Republicans and corporate Democrats are trying to push now that they realize the right wing of the Republican Party has taken them over to the point that they rightfully should find themselves going the way of the Know Nothings once the better part of…
- Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest: 8/1 IN-Sen: While it would have been fun, this is actually good news for those hoping to see Dick Lugar get teabagged to death. Aaron Blake says that ex-Rep. IN-Gov: I'm pretty unimpressed with the production values of this ad from Jim Wallace, the businessman who is challenging Rep. Mike Pence for the GOP gubernatorial nod. Bad shirt that gives off a moire pattern, squinting into the sun, a jarring chair-swivel to start, and a weird full-second pause in his dialog while he's walking down the street at about the 19 second mark. Also, he says he "approves this message." Is…
