NYC comptroller questions Texas oil company's NRA donation

[TexasTowelie]

ALBANY, N.Y. — The New York City comptroller wants a Texas oil company to explain its chairman's reported donations of $1 million each to the National Rifle Association and conservative political action committee American Crossroads.

Comptroller Scott Stringer, investment adviser and trustee to the $150 billion city pension funds, is questioning "both the magnitude and the corporate purpose" of the Clayton Williams Energy Inc. donations. He says they also raise questions about the corporation board's independent oversight.

Stringer notes Chairman Clayton Williams Jr. and his family control 51 percent of the stock. Williams was Republican candidate for Texas governor in 1990.

A company spokeswoman declines to immediately respond to the letter, saying the Midland-based company has been closed since Thursday.

More at http://lubbockonline.com/filed-online/2014-04-21/nyc-comptroller-questions-texas-oil-companys-nra-donation#.U1V4JMLQf5o .

[underpants]

1. Hey their from Midland, what could possibly go wrong?

[TexasProgresive]

2. Oh, Claytie!

Why don't you just lie back and enjoy it.

Clayton Williams quote (1990) on rape, "As long as it’s inevitable, you might as well lie back and enjoy it,”

[Paladin]

3. Yeah, back then a remark like that could (and did) lose an election.

1990 politics seem downright quaint, compared to the right-wing lunatics we're saddled with, today.