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For all of the controversy over the milk producers' campaign contributions, they have not abandoned money as a way of winning friends. Last week the Common Cause citizens' lobby reported that special interest groups have $14.2 million to contribute to congressional campaigns this fall. At the top of the list was AMPI'S political arm with $1.4 million. It was followed by nine maritime-related groups and unions, totaling $1 million; the United Automobile Workers, $717,000; and the American Medical Association and related groups, $889,000. Declared Fred Wertheimer, director of Common Cause's campaign-finance monitoring project: "Anyone who thinks the Watergate scandals have put special interest givers out of business had better take a close look at these figures."