She has, among others, the giant American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, AFSCME.
Spending totals are still in flux, and another group could overtake AFSCME in the race's remaining days.
Scholastica, and is being joined in its push by another Citi holder, the AFSCME Employees Pension Plan.
Gregory King, a spokesman for AFSCME, said conservatives make too much of the issue, especially the link to taxpayers.
"We're the big dog, " said Larry Scanlon, the head of AFSCME's political operations.
No offense, but I do not consider AFSCME workers wealthy enough, or necessarily financially savvy enough, to be considered sophisticated investors.
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Afscme officials say Ms. Raimondo's alliance with the Arnolds shows she is out of step with the interests of working-class Rhode Islanders.
Based on their logic, "the government is funding the movie industry every time AFSCME members go out to the movies, " he said.
AFSCME's campaign push accounts for an estimated 30% of what pro-Democratic groups, including unions, plan to spend on independent campaigns to elect Democrats.
The union is spending heavily this year because "a lot of people are attacking public-sector workers as the problem, " said AFSCME President Gerald McEntee.
Much of that decline came from Afscme Council 24, which represents Wisconsin state workers, whose membership plunged by two-thirds to 7, 100 from 22, 300 last year.
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In that state, AFSCME lost more than half of its membership in a single year, a strong rebuke from the workers they claimed to be protecting.
Mr. Scanlon, who has run elections for AFSCME for nearly 15 years, acknowledged the connection between the number of government jobs and the union's political clout.
Dean was the front-runner in national polls of Democratic presidential candidates at the time AFSCME endorsed him, but he has yet to win a single primary contest.
AFSCME, with about 1.4 million members, endorsed Dean in November, citing his record as Vermont governor, his position on the issues and the strength of his campaign.
But also watching today was 54-year-old AFSCME member Michael Fox.
'' said Steve Kreisberg head of collective bargaining for Afscme.
In eastern Ohio, AFSCME is campaigning hard for Rep. Zack Space, even though the second-term Democrat has been abandoned by other unions and Democratic interest groups after he voted against health-care legislation.
But with a Republican takeover of the House in the offing, AFSCME reversed itself and began supporting Democrats it once opposed, following what it calls the "218 Strategy, " after the number of seats needed for a House majority.
Working against Walker are unions like AFSCME, the American Federation of Teachers, the National Education Association and the Service Employees International Union, which have also steered millions of dollars to the state in their efforts to unseat the governor.
Wisconsin membership in the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees--the state's second-largest public-sector union after the National Education Association, which represents teachers--fell to 28, 745 in February from 62, 818 in March 2011, according to a person who has viewed Afscme's figures.
Members include: ACORN, AFSCME, Americans United for Change, Campaign for America's Future, Center for American Progress Action Fund, MoveOn.org, National Council of La Raza, National Education Association, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Service Employees International Union, United Food and Commercial Workers, and USAction.
On March 27th it was reported that Goldman Sachs had made peace with the pension fund of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), which had proposed a resolution to split the roles of chief executive and chairman, both of which are held by Lloyd Blankfein.
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