Does Leftist disdain for the rich extend to wealthy Democrats?

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Mark Warner, consistently one of the wealthiest members of Congress, saw his net worth increase by almost $10.5 million, after his wealth grew by $10 million the year before.

Warner also reported $7.1 million to $35.3 million in holdings in the Columbia Capital Equity Partners technology and telecommunications investment company.

He reported no earned income or liabilities. His only position listed on his disclosure form is a seat on the board of directors of the Alexandria-based Collis Warner Foundation Inc., led by his wife, Lisa Collis.




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Richard Blumenthal, who was the wealthiest member of the congressional class of 2010, landed near the top of the 50 Richest list again after seeing his net worth increase by at least $5 million. The bulk of his wealth comes from the family of his wife, Cynthia Blumenthal, the daughter of New York real estate magnate Peter Malkin.

There are many assets worth at least $1 million listed under the Peter L. Malkin Family 9 LLC, including a JPMorgan checking account, hedge funds, a real estate company in Sao Paulo, Brazil, multiple properties in midtown Manhattan and entities that leased and operated the Empire State Building. He also lists $1 million to $5 million in gold held at JPMorgan.

Blumenthal receives an annual pension for his 20 years as Connecticut’s attorney general before being elected in 2010.



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Jay Rockefeller may be retiring from Congress in 2014, but he’s still worth at least $83.77 million, up almost $1 million from last year.

Rockefeller and his wife, who is CEO of WETA-TV in Arlington, Va., have a condominium worth more than $1 million listed among their assets, along with land worth $1 million to $5 million in Pocahontas, W.Va., and a residence in Charleston worth $500,000 to $1 million.


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John Delaney was the richest freshman in Congress, with $51.49 million spread among stocks, bonds and partnerships, on top of trusts valued at almost $15 million.

He reported holding $25 million to $50 million of company stock that paid at least $1 million in dividends. He received $17.23 million in salary, stock awards and director fees.

Delaney reported a stake worth at least $5 million in Alliance Partners, a Maryland financial firm, and has investments of at least $1 million in three equity or hedge funds. He holds smaller positions in an Atlanta service that provides home nursing for sick infants, a mini-storage facility in Waldorf, Md., a Bethesda, Md., stair manufacturing company and orthopedic and dental device businesses.



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Jared Polis is the only one of the 10 wealthiest members under age 50.

His vast portfolio stocked with emerging growth and startup investments performed extremely well.

The Colorado Democrat sold part of his stake in the photo-sharing company LifePics for $1 million to $5 million. Other assets include a $2.85 million share of the world’s only aquaculture venture capital firm, Aquacopia; $6 million in the medical equipment and services companies Symbius Medical and Bridgehealth Medical; and $700,000 in the business incubator Techstars, which uses executives from Birchbox, Warby Parker and Twitter to mentor the next generation of startups.

Polis received at least $1.9 million in rental income from properties in his Colorado district and in Japan. His Colorado real estate holdings include farmland, commercial buildings and a few empty parcels. His stake in Asia Investment Partners gives him a piece of Japanese retirement homes and other health-related facilities.



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Scott Peters has a reported minimum net worth of $44.74 million.

The Democrat’s wife, Lynn E. Gorguze, is president and CEO of Cameron Holdings, a private equity firm established by her father, former Emerson Electric Co. executive Vincent Gorguze. She holds more than $12 million in assets, including at least $1 million in a provider of ground storage tanks, and $100,000 to $250,000 in the plastic manufacturer Sinclair & Rush Inc., both subsidiaries of Cameron Holdings.

Although his wife’s assets would be enough to land him on the list, Peters reports more than $37 million in his own assets. His tastes run toward municipal bonds, including at least $2 million in California state water and transportation bonds and at least $2 million in education bonds for Kenosha, Wis., and the University of Texas.

The former city councilman and environmental attorney surprised many by loaning his own campaign $2.75 million.


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Dianne Feinstein maintained her place near the top of the 50 Richest list, largely from holdings she shares with her husband, Richard Blum, the president and CEO of the private equity firm Blum Capital Partners LP. The California Democrat was worth at least $41.67 million, according to her disclosure forms.

The couple listed condominiums worth at least $1 million on Lake Merced in San Francisco and on Kauai, Hawaii, and one in Tahoe City, Calif., worth at least $250,000. Feinstein’s biggest single holding remains a stake in San Francisco’s Carlton Hotel Properties worth $5 million to $25 million, which generated more than $1 million in income.


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Chellie Pingree’s reported wealth rose about $8 million, mostly from the more than $22 million in investments she holds with her husband, Wall Street billionaire financier Donald Sussman.

The Maine Democrat has assets in excess of $1.52 million in her own name.

In addition to the Nebo Lodge, an inn and restaurant in North Haven, Maine, Pingree listed dozens of spousal assets in energy, real estate, software and media. Many were valued at $1 million or above, the maximum reporting range for congressional spouses, which can dramatically understate the true wealth of a couple.

Sussman founded a hedge fund, Paloma Partners, in 1981, the same year he married the daughter of the co-owner of the New York Giants. Sussman divorced about a decade later, and he married Pingree in 2011.In 2012, he bought a controlling stake in Maine Today Media Holdings, which publishes two of the biggest newspapers in Pingree’s district, the Portland Press Herald and the Kennebec Journal.



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House minority leader Nancy Pelosi’s minimum net worth is $24.45 million.

Pelosi and her husband, Paul, enjoy the fruits of their real estate investments, literally and figuratively. Their holdings include California properties worth at least $22.98 million, including a St. Helena vineyard worth $5 million to $25 million that generates at least $50,000 in annual grape sales.

A good portion of Pelosi’s reported earnings are connected to her husband, who invests heavily in stocks. Paul Pelosi also is a big backer of the United Football League. In 2011 his stake in the league was valued at $1 million to $5 million, with a separate interest in the Sacramento Mountain Lions franchise worth $5 million to $25 million. In 2012, though, he upped his financial interest in the UFL to a minimum of $5 million.

Nancy Pelosi also reported her position on a number of boards and associations. Notable among these positions is her role as chief financial officer and secretary of the Paul and Nancy Pelosi Charitable Foundation and as a member of the Wheelchair Foundation.


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Washington Democrat Suzan DelBene met her husband, Kurt, while both worked at Microsoft Corp. in the 1990s. She built her fortune through ties to the tech industry, accruing a minimum net worth of $23.91 million.

The lawmaker reported more than $12.9 million in index and mutual funds held by herself, her husband and their children. The couple disclosed $1.35 million in Microsoft assets, $1 million of which belongs to Kurt DelBene, who headed the company’s Office Division through July 2013.

At least $8 million of the fortune is jointly invested in bonds financing universities, hospitals, electric utilities, transportation projects and urban development initiatives in Western and Southern states. The couple also has more than $100,000 in the finance funds of Global Partnerships, a nonprofit the congresswoman consulted and advised from 2008 to 2009.

DelBene reported earning $14,070 as director of the Washington State Department of Revenue before she resigned on Jan. 12, 2012.


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Alan Grayson founded the Grayson Fund Management Co. after losing his first re-election bid in 2010, a career change that freed him up to dive headlong into asset management.

His stake in the firm is worth at least $5 million, according to his financial disclosure report.

Grayson also reports at least $5 million in cash and liquid assets.

The Florida Democrat has no shortage of places to lay his head, boasting homes from the Sunshine State all the way up to Appalachia. A 2,300-square-foot house in Vienna, Va., he bought for $285,000 in 1994 has more than doubled in value. There’s also a six-bedroom, seven-bathroom spread in Orlando he bought for $1 million that carries a Wells Fargo mortgage worth at least $500,000. Grayson reports other properties in Orlando and Charles Town, W.Va.

Grayson’s portfolio includes stakes worth at least $500,000 in drugstore chain CVS and Russia’s second-biggest oil company, Lukoil.


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Joseph P. Kennedy III, the son of former Rep. Joseph P. Kennedy II and grandson of Robert F. Kennedy, owns trusts worth about $15 million.

The Kennedy trusts contain a wide variety of holdings, including investments in companies ranging from the Walt Disney Co. to Exxon Mobil.

His wife, Harvard Law School sweetheart Lauren Anne Birchfield, earned more than $70,000 in consulting fees from Harvard and Boston Medical Center, and an undisclosed salary from NARAL in Washington, D.C.


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Claire McCaskill’s reported net worth is just below the $15 million mark.

Nearly all of McCaskill’s assets are held by her husband, Joseph Shepard.

More than half of the assets are held in real estate investments. That includes at least $1 million each in the Missouri and Georgia Housing Tax Credit funds. There’s also at least $1 million tied up in Terrace Apartments LLC.

The couple’s finances became a focus during the 2012 campaign when The Associated Press reported that firms affiliated with Shepard received about $39 million in federal payments for low-income housing developments during McCaskill’s first five years in office.

Her 2012 report also shows at least $500,000 in Berkshire Hathaway stock held by Shepard. That’s the conglomerate run by the billionaire Warren Buffett, whose statements on taxes for the wealthy became something of a rallying cry for Democrats.


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New York Democrat Nita M. Lowey’s real estate holdings include 57 West 70th Development LLC, which is worth at least $1 million, and a Washington, D.C., rental property worth at least $250,000 that generates $15,000 to $50,000 in annual income.

A profit-sharing plan at Stephen Lowey’s law firm is valued at $500,000 to $1 million.

The Loweys also reported at least $2.5 million invested in hedge funds that kicked off at least $130,000 in capital gains. And they received $200 to $1,000 in distributions in 2012 from a trust connected to Pequot Partners, a hedge fund that was shut in 2009 amid a federal insider-trading investigation.


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Tom Harkin's wealth increased by 18.7 percent, with most of the reported assets connected to his wife, Ruth.

Two of Ruth Harkin’s largest holdings are investments of more than $1 million in Phillips 66 and Conoco Phillips Co., on whose board of directors she served until May. She previously was senior vice president for international affairs and government relations for United Technologies Corp., in which she also holds more than $1 million.

Ruth Harkin reported receiving salaries from Conoco, United Technologies and Ireland’s National Toll Road, disclosing that those agreements include the right to receive stock in the future.

The couple also holds stock valued at more than $1,000 in companies including Walt Disney and Procter & Gamble. Their largest joint holding is a vacation home in the Bahamas worth $500,000 to $1 million that generates more than $15,000 in rent annually.


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Texas Democrat Lloyd Doggett has revived his portfolio since the 2008 stock market crash, posting a minimum net worth of $10.51 million last year, up from $8.94 million in 2011 and $8.53 million the year before that.

Though the bulk of Doggett’s $10.76 million of reported assets are spread among mutual funds and large market cap stocks, he also owns three properties in Austin worth at least $250,000 apiece and a rental spread in Travis County, Texas, worth $1 million to $5 million. Combined, the real estate holdings generate $70,000 to $165,000 in annual rental income.

Among Doggett’s biggest individual investment is a stake in Whole Foods worth $1 million to $5 million. Beyond his congressional salary, he also lists $64,906 in annuity income from the Employees Retirement System of Texas for his tenure in the Texas Senate and the Texas Supreme Court.



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Democrat Brad Schneider, representing the well-off communities north of Chicago is a former consultant and insurance executive with a diverse portfolio spread among 18 brokerage accounts.

His largest stock holdings were stakes worth $50,000 to $100,000 in such companies as Apple, Caterpillar, Google, Union Pacific and Exxon Mobil.

At least $322,000 of his assets are in real estate funds and partnerships in apartment buildings in Georgia, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, North Carolina and Texas. And Schneider reported at least $640,000 in bank accounts.

Schneider also earned about $46,000 in income for insurance renewals at the Davis Dann Adler Schneider life insurance firm, where he was a managing principal a decade ago.



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Carolyn B. Maloney’s source of wealth continues to come from real estate holdings.

She reported $11.86 million in assets, including properties in Jamaica, Virginia Beach, Va., and North Carolina’s Albermarle Sound.

Maloney also has a residence in her congressional district on the Upper East Side of Manhattan and a Washington home on D Street Southeast, just a stone’s throw from her office on Capitol Hill.

The New York Democrat came in last year with a minimum net worth of $9.86 million, a little less than the $10.5 million she boasted the year before. In 2012, she sold an Arlington, Va., condominium for at least $500,000.

Maloney also received an income of $26,955 in management fees from Sea Bay Development Corp.; she holds stake in the Virginia Beach coastal residential development firm.


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Former investment banker Jim Cooper kept busy in the markets, more than doubling his wealth from $3.41 million in 2011 to nearly $8 million.

Most of Cooper’s wealth is still derived from a diverse real estate portfolio which includes undeveloped tracts in his hometown of Nashville, a waterfront lot in Gulfport, Miss., and $5.7 million worth of farmland, residential lots and commercial properties in Tennessee and Kentucky.

He also boasts a $3.25 million stake in two office buildings in Brentwood, Tenn.

Cooper remains heavily invested in technology concerns, spreading his money among major players in computing such as Hewlett Packard, Intel, IBM and Microsoft, as well as service providers including Comcast and Qualcomm.

His mutual fund holdings skew toward health care, a specialization that helped him rake in $841,000 in dividends and $1.7 million from stocks liquidated within two such accounts.

Cooper also reported pulling down $20,000 from an adjunct teaching gig at Vanderbilt University’s Owen School of Management.


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North Carolina Democrat Kay Hagan owns a stake in Anchuca Holdings LLC worth $5 million to $25 million that she received as a gift.

The limited liability corporation is one of several controlled by Hagan’s father, Joe Ruthven, who has substantial warehouse and industrial park holdings in Florida.

Hagan’s office didn’t have an exact figure on the value of the transfer but described it as "toward the lower end of the $5 million to $25 million" reporting category on her disclosure.

Hagan’s other assets include at least $250,000 in BNC Bancorp stock and a stake in a Davis, N.C., fishing club worth $100,000 to $250,000.


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