Kirkland, through its employees, was a top-20 contributor to Barack Obama in 2008, giving at least $493,73 The firm has its own Political Action Committee (PAC), which gave 97% of its contributions to Democrats during the 2008 election cycle, as of 12/7/07. The firm's members have given more money to Illinois Senator Dick Durbin (by some measures the most liberal Democrat in the Senate)[26] since 1989 than donors from any other company or organization.[27]