National City

National City Corporation is a top bank in the U.S. headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, operating in the states of Ohio, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri, and Pennsylvania with about 1,300 bank branches. It offers retail banking, corporate and small business banking, wealth management services, and mortgage banking.

Political contributions
Richard B. Payne, Jr., Executive Vice President of National City, is a Bush Pioneer having raised at least $100,000 for Bush in the 2004 presidential election.

National City gave $142,250 to federal candidates in the 2006 election through its political action committee - 19% to Democrats and 81% to Republicans.

Lobbying
The company spent $190,000 for lobbying in 2006. $100,000 went to three lobbying firms with the remainder being spent using in-house lobbyists.

Personnel
Key executives and 2007 pay:
 * Peter E. Raskind, Chief Executive Officer, $4,340,328
 * Jeffrey D. Kelly, Vice Chairman and Chief Financial Officer, $4,994,851 (also exercised $746,586 in options)
 * Daniel J. Frate, Executive Vice President of Retail, $3,248,535
 * Stephen A. Stitle, Executive Vice President
 * Richard B. Payne, Jr., Executive Vice President

Former:
 * David A. Daberko, Executive Chairman, $1,000,000 (2006)

Selected board members:
 * Jon E. Barfield, Chairman and President of The Bartech Group, Inc.
 * James S. Broadhurst, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Eat’n Park Hospitality Group, Inc.,
 * Christopher M. Connor, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of The Sherwin-Williams Company

Contact details
1900 East Ninth Street Cleveland, OH 44114 Phone: 216-222-2000 Fax: 216-222-9957 Web: http://www.nationalcity.com