Posts
It would seem that Mr. Straight Talk has been bought off by big oil as his campaign contributions have gone up considerably thanks to his change on drilling for oil off of our coasts and up in ANWR.
One company in particular stands out, and that would be Hess.
Ten senior Hess Corporation executives and/or members of the Hess family each gave $28,500 to the joint RNC-McCain fundraising committee, just days after McCain reversed himself to favor offshore drilling, according to Federal Election Commission reports.
Nine of these contributions, seven from Hess executives and two from members of the Hess family, came on the same day, June 24th, the records show. The total collected in the wake of McCain's reversal for the fund, called McCain Victory 2008, from Hess execs and family is $285,000.The Washington Post reported last week that campaign contributions from oil industry execs rose in a big way in the last half of June, after McCain drew a huge amount of attention by reversing his opposition on June 16th to the federal ban on offshore drilling.
Not to be out done by the McCain camp, Barack Obama put out an ad taking Mr.McCain to task for his energy love-feast.
At least the ads coming forth from the Obama camp have truth to them.
0 Comments:
Post a Comment