McCain and big oil connections email I received. Great to forward I think.

[MidwestTransplant]

Think McCain will be helpful with oil prices? Does a guy who traipses around in $540 Ferragamo Italian loafers really understand how oil prices are affecting American families? Maybe we should ask the Big Oil lobbyists who work for his campaign. They are the people that formulate his oil policies. Do they care about prices at that pump? Their clients make more when WE pay more. McCain has even more Big Oil lobbyists working for him than worked for Bush/Cheney. His Senior Political Adviser even lobbied for the national Russian and Chinese oil companies. Below is a list of Big Oil lobbyist that work for his campaign. Scary…

1 Rebecca Anderson / Women for McCain Steering Committee / Williams & Jensen / Sunoco

2 Wayne Berman / National Finance Co-Chairman / Ogilvy Government Relations / Amerada Hess Chevron Texaco American Petroleum Institute

3 Charlie Black / Senior Political Adviser / BKSH Occidental Petroleum Corp. / Yukos Oil Chinese National Off-Shore Oil Corp.

4 Carlos Bonilla / Economic Adviser / Washington Group / Chesapeake Energy

5 Eric Burgeson / Fundraiser / Barbour Griffith & Rogers / BP

6 Kerry Cammack / Fundraiser Cammack and Strong / Exxon Mobil

7 Frank Donatelli / McCain Pick as Deputy RNC Chair / McGuire Woods / Exxon Mobil Dominion Resources

8 Melissa Edwards / Fundraiser / Washington Group / Chesapeake Energy

9 John Green / Congressional Liaison / Ogilvy Government Relations / Amerada-Hess Chevon Texaco El Paso Energy American Petroleum Institute

10 Robert Harding / Fundraiser / Greenberg Traurig / Chevron Murphy Oil Phillips Petroleum Company

11 Richard Hohlt / Fundraiser / Hohlt and Associates / Chevron

12 James "Jim" Hyland / Fundraiser / Pennsylvania Avenue Group / BP America Independent Fuel Terminal Operators Assoc. Occidental Petroleum Corp. Independent Fuel Terminal Operators Assoc.

13 Peter Madigan / Fundraiser / Johnson, Madigan, Peck, Boland & Stewart / Shell Oil

14 Susan Molinari / Women for McCain Steering Committee / Washington Group / Chesapeake Energy

15 Jack Oliver / Fundraiser / Bryan Cave Strategies / Shell Oil

16 Nancy Pfotenhauer / Adviser / Koch Industries / Koch Industries

17 Steve Phillips / Fundraiser / DLA Piper / BP America Occidental Petroleum

18 Elise Pickering / Women for McCain Steering Committee / Mehlman Vogel Castagnetti / Koch Industries

19 Sloan Rappoport / Fundraiser / Downey McGrath Group / Koch Industries

20 Matt Salmon / Fundraiser / Greenberg Traurig / El Paso Energy

21 Randy Scheunemann / Defense and Foreign Policy Coordinator / Scheunemann and Associates / BP Amoco

22 Jeffrey Weiss / Fundraiser / BKSH / Yukos Oil Company

[Kermitt Gribble]

1. Thanks for this.

It will be useful to send to the imbeciles I know who are voting for McCain.

[MidwestTransplant]

2. Of course!

[Muttocracy]

3. kick

[MidwestTransplant]

5. Thanks, everybody should see this.

[Gabi Hayes]

4. Nancy Pfotenhauer was on Lehrer tonight, identified only as working for McCain.

look at these 'credentials'

http://thinkprogress.org/wonkroom/2008/06/28/dirty-nancy-pfotenhauer/

Nancy Pfotenhauer Is A Pure Right-Wing/Koch Industries Product. Pfotenhauer’s resumé includes George Mason University (funded by Koch), Citizens for a Sound Economy (founded by Koch), Americans for Prosperity (founded by Koch), and the Independent Women’s Forum (funded by Koch). She also worked directly for Koch Industries as their top Washington lobbyist. When not on the Koch payroll, Pfotenhauer worked for the Republican National Committee, Sen. William Armstrong (R-CO), and Dan Quayle’s Council on Competitiveness.


Koch Industries Is The Secret Dirty Energy King. With $90 billion in annual sales, Koch Industries is the largest privately owned company in the United States. Begun in 1940 as an oil refining business by Fred Koch, his company — now controlled by sons David and Charles Koch — has diversified into “refining and chemicals; process and pollution control equipment and technologies; minerals and fertilizer; fibers and polymers; commodity and financial trading and services; and forest and consumer products” — a global warming pollution factory.

Koch Industries Is At The Center Of The Right-Wing Message Machine. Koch’s founder, Fred Koch, also helped found the John Birch Society, an ultraconservative organization that believed the U.S. government was controlled by a traitorous cabal of Communist sympathizers. Koch Industries’ charitable arm, the Koch Family Foundations, has provided over $120 million in the past 20 years to the Cato Institute (founded by Charles Koch), Citizens for a Sound Economy (founded by David Koch, now Americans for Prosperity and FreedomWorks), the Heritage Foundation, George Mason University, the Federalist Society, the Mercatus Center, and dozens more right-wing, anti-regulatory, and global-warming denial organizations.