Election '98: AOPA Legislative Action-supported candidates
 | Election '98 |
AOPA Legislative Action-supported candidates
AOPA Legislative Action PAC is AOPA’s political action committee. The PAC provides financial support to candidates for the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives who are likely to support general aviation.Like most organizations, AOPA is forbidden by law from using dues money to contribute to federal political campaigns. Instead, AOPA’s political action committee supports candidates using funds given to it by AOPA members on a strictly voluntary basis. That’s why the PAC asks AOPA members for support instead of including a contribution with dues.
This is a list of candidates who received support from AOPA Legislative Action PAC in the 1998 election cycle (1997-1998). The PAC chooses its slate of candidates on a strictly bipartisan basis. Many of these candidates are pilots or AOPA members. Others demonstrated their support for the interests of general aviation. Matt Fong, Robin Hayes, Mike Robinson and Pat Toomey are AOPA members who ran for Congress for the first time. [See also: "Vast majority of candidates supported by AOPA Legislative Action are elected to Congress" news release.]
* denotes winner
| U.S. House | ||
| * | Don Young | AK at large |
| * | Sonny Callahan | AL-1 |
| * | Bob Riley | AL-3 |
| * | Robert Aderholt | AL-4 |
| * | Bud Cramer | AL-5 |
| * | Asa Hutchinson | AR-3 |
| * | John Shadegg | AZ-4 |
| * | Jim Kolbe | AZ-5 |
| * | Wally Herger | CA-2 |
| � | Randy Hoffman | CA-24 |
| * | Jerry Lewis | CA-40 |
| * | Ron Packard | CA-48 |
| * | Randy Cunningham | CA-51 |
| * | Mac Collins | GA-3 |
| * | John Linder | GA-4 |
| * | John Lewis | GA-5 |
| * | Newt Gingrich | GA-6 |
| * | Jim Nussle | IA-2 |
| * | Leonard Boswell | IA-3 |
| * | Greg Ganske | IA-4 |
| * | William Lipinski | IL-3 |
| � | Bill Price | IL-12 |
| * | Thomas Ewing | IL-15 |
| * | Ray LaHood | IL-18 |
| * | Dan Burton | IN-6 |
| * | Edward Pease | IN-7 |
| * | Jerry Moran | KS-1 |
| * | Todd Tiahrt | KS-4 |
| * | Harold Rogers | KY-5 |
| * | Bob Livingston | LA-1 |
| * | John Cooksey | LA-5 |
| * | James McGovern | MA-3 |
| * | Benjamin Cardin | MD-3 |
| * | Roscoe Bartlett | MD-6 |
| * | Connie Morella | MD-8 |
| * | Vern Ehlers | MI-3 |
| * | Martin Sabo | MN-5 |
| * | Jim Oberstar | MN-8 |
| * | Richard Gephardt | MO-3 |
| * | Pat Danner | MO-6 |
| * | Roy Blunt | MO-7 |
| * | Kenny Hulshof | MO-9 |
| * | Mike Robinson | NC-5 |
| * | Howard Coble | NC-6 |
| * | Robin Hayes | NC-8 |
| * | Cass Ballenger | NC-10 |
| * | Charles Bass | NH-2 |
| * | Joe Skeen | NM-2 |
| * | Jim Gibbons | NV-2 |
| * | Sherwood Boehlert | NY-23 |
| * | Steve LaTourette | OH-19 |
| * | Robert Borski | PA-3 |
| * | Curt Weldon | PA-7 |
| * | Bud Shuster | PA-9 |
| * | John Murtha | PA-12 |
| � | Jon Fox | PA-13 |
| * | Pat Toomey | PA-15 |
| * | Joe Pitts | PA-16 |
| * | Phil English | PA-21 |
| * | John Duncan | TN-2 |
| * | Bart Gordon | TN-6 |
| * | Nick Lampson | TX-9 |
| * | Chet Edwards | TX-11 |
| * | Lamar Smith | TX-21 |
| * | Tom DeLay | TX-22 |
| * | James Hansen | UT-1 |
| * | Merrill Cook | UT-2 |
| * | Thomas Bliley | VA-7 |
| * | Frank Wolf | VA-10 |
| * | Jennifer Dunn | WA-8 |
| * | Thomas Petri | WI-6 |
| * | David Obey | WI-7 |
| * | Bob Wise | WV-2 |
| U.S. Senate | ||
| * | Frank Murkowski | AK |
| * | Richard Shelby | AL |
| � | Matt Fong | CA |
| * | Ben Campbell | CO |
| * | Bob Graham | FL |
| * | Daniel Inouye | HI |
| * | Paul Coverdell | GA |
| * | Charles Grassley | IA |
| * | Sam Brownback | KS |
| * | John Breaux | LA |
| * | Barbara Mikulski | MD |
| * | Christopher Bond | MO |
| � | Lauch Faircloth | NC |
| * | Byron Dorgan | ND |
| * | Harry Reid | NV |
| � | Alfonse D'Amato | NY |
| * | Don Nickles | OK |
| * | Ron Wyden | OR |
| * | Ernest Hollings | SC |
| * | Thomas Daschle | SD |
| * | Robert Bennett | UT |
Updated Thursday, November 05, 1998 11:41:39 AM