Multiple Oil Company Executives Gave Huge Contributions To Electing McCain...

[babylonsister]

Multiple Oil Company Executives Gave Huge Contributions To Electing McCain Just Days After Offshore Drilling Reversal
By Greg Sargent and Eric Kleefeld - August 4, 2008, 12:47PM


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.

We were alerted to the contributions by Campaign Money Watch, a non-partisan group that tracks campaign contributions. The contributions were given a quick mention deep in a report the group issued late last week, but with no names or other details provided. The Hess contributions are clearly newsworthy on their own.

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[Coexist]

1. $57,000 from an office manager and her husband, who works for amtrak? THIS SMELLS.

A Hess "office manager" and her husband, an Amtrak worker, both chipped in $28,500 apiece on the same day that all those Hess execs did.

This needs to be investigated - NO WAY! those two had a spare $50,000 laying around, ready to donate to McCain.

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE INVESTIGATE THIS..

[babylonsister]

2. Stinks to high heaven, it does. nt

[americanstranger]

3. I posted this nearly an hour ago.

No takers. Apparently obsessing over tracking polls is much more interesting. :evilgrin:

- as

[Coexist]

4. these things are always hit or niss

I cannot count the times I post something, it sinks, someone else posts it and it hit the top of the rec list!!

Such is life!

[OhioChick]

5. K&R

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[Hutzpa]

6. K&R

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