WASHINGTON — Last year proved to be a record setting one forcontributions to the Credit Union Legislative Action Council,CUNA's political action committee. According to Richard Gose,CUNA's senior vice president for political affairs, CULAC broughtin more than $2 million.

Gose attributed the solid increase to a shift in attitudes aboutthe necessity of contributing to credit union causes among creditunion members and a growing number of different tools to makecontributing easier to do.

Speaking to reporters about CULAC's performance, Goseparticularly noted that the increased contributions came in anon-election year, when fundraising efforts in the past havegenerally yielded lower results. CULAC's previous record overallcame last year, $1.98 million. CULAC's previous record fornon-election year came in 2005 with $1.77 million. CULAC is no ontrack to beat the 2005 — 2006 election cycle total of $3.75million.