Allstate

Allstate (The Allstate Corporation) sells auto, homeowners, and life insurance in the U.S. and Canada. It is the number two personal insurance company in the U.S. after State Farm. Subsidiaries are Allstate Life, American Heritage Life, and Lincoln Benefit Life. It also has investment products for middle-income and affluent customers. It provides emergency road service and recently launched Allstate Bank.

In 2011, Allstate had revenues of $33,000,000,000.

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The Campaign to Fix the Debt is the latest incarnation of a decades-long effort by former Nixon man turned Wall Street billionaire Pete Peterson to slash earned benefit programs such as Social Security and Medicare under the guise of fixing the nation's "debt problem."

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Board of Directors
As of January 2013
 * Thomas J. Wilson, Chairman, President & CEO
 * F. Duane Ackerman, former Chairman and CEO of BellSouth (now AT&T)
 * Robert D. Beyer
 * Kermit R. Crawford, President of pharmacy, health and wellness for Walgreen Co.
 * W. James Farrell, Director of Abbott Laboratories, Kraft Foods Inc., 3M Company and UAL Corporation (United Airlines)
 * Jack M. Greenberg, Chairman of The Western Union Company, Former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of McDonald's
 * Ronald T. LeMay, Former President and Chief Operating Officer of Sprint (now Sprint Nextel)
 * Andrea Redmond
 * H. John Riley, Jr., Lead Director
 * John W. Rowe, Chairman and CEO of Exelon Corporation
 * Joshua I. Smith
 * Judith A. Sprieser
 * Mary Alice Taylor

Former board members include:
 * Edward M. Liddy - Chair

Political contributions
Allstate gave $195,300 to federal candidates in the 2006 election through its political action committee - 31% to Democrats, 67% to Republicans, and %2 ($3,000) to independent Joseph Lieberman (I-CT).

Lobbying
Allstate spent $4,080,000 for lobbying in 2006. $60,000 went to the lobbying firm James Lee Witt Associates with the remainder being spent using in-house lobbyists.

Contact details
The Allstate Corporations 2775 Sanders Rd. Northbrook, IL 60062-6127 Phone: 847-402-5000 Fax: 847-326-7519 Web: http://www.allstate.com

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