This computer-assisted story shows how Hispanic contributions to congressional and presidential candidates, national party funds and political action committees more than tripled over the past three presidential elec- tions. Interestingly, a disproportionate amount of the $3.16 million Hispanics contributed in this election cycle as of March 31 is coming from Florida and is going to Republicans, according to the report.
Mendosa and Acosta also isolated the largest Hispanic political giver. The National Library on Money & Politics, a Washington-based non-partisan, non-profit research organization, searched FEC records from 1979 to 1992 for 3,000 Hispanic surnames supplied by Hispanic Business and isolated 30,000 contributions. Mendoza and Acosta took these records, in comma delimited form, and zed them in dBASE by year, party, state type of contribution.