Industry Gushed Money (to McCain) After Reversal on Drilling

[DogPoundPup]

Source: Washington Post

Campaign contributions from oil industry executives to Sen. John McCain rose dramatically in the last half of June, after the senator from Arizona made a high-profile split with environmentalists and reversed his opposition to the federal ban on offshore drilling.

Oil and gas industry executives and employees donated $1.1 million to McCain last month -- three-quarters of which came after his June 16 speech calling for an end to the ban -- compared with $116,000 in March, $283,000 in April and $208,000 in May.

McCain said the policy reversal came as a response to rising voter anger over soaring energy prices. At the time, about three-quarters of voters responding to a Washington Post-ABC News poll said prices at the pump were causing them financial hardship, the highest in surveys this decade.

Opening vast stretches of the country's coastline to oil exploration would help America eliminate its dependence on foreign oil, McCain said.

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/26/AR2008072601891.html

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From article: "The timing was significant," said David Donnelly, the national campaigns director of the Public Campaign Action Fund, a nonpartisan campaign finance reform group that conducted the analysis of McCain's oil industry contributions. "This is a case study of how a candidate can change a policy position in the interest of raising money."

[vixengrl]

1. The thot plickens.

If we can all turn the psalm-book back to Vicki Iseman and the cable companies, or even further back to the Keating Five scandal:

"Lo, and didst Honest John see the money, and saw he also the money was good:

"Yea, did it beckon him to come hither, and his feet did move.

"Swore he to do that which was against his straight talking, but was for the money:

"Yea, verily, for the lucre it was, and filthy.

"But filthy never hurt none, so he rolled in it.

"Sayeth ye, Amen."

[Arctic Dave]

3. Ramen. n/t

[Trillo]

2. I've read a number of times that Congress Critters have said

there is no evidence that money influences legislation.

Change a policy position, raise cash. What difference does it make if they're running for election, or are already in office.

[EFerrari]

4. Yeah, right. That's why lobbyists are all panhandling on the Mall. n/t

[tbyg52]

5. Ha!

:rofl:

As soon as they say that, you know they're bought.

[defendandprotect]

6. The oil industry has long been at war on America ---- and democracy ---

[The Croquist]

12. If it wasn't for the oil industry you would be walking to work

And that work would pay you 50 cents an hour.

In case you never noticed the world lives on oil. Get used to it.

[crikkett]

13. your world lives on oil. The world and people on it lived happily many an era without your oil. n/t

[defendandprotect]

15. What crap . . . the first cars were ELECTRIC ---

trolley transportation was and still is ELECTRIC ---

Also GM bought up the trolley services in most American cities and ripped them up after WWII --

I guess you haven't noticed . . . oil is coming to an end ?????

[defendandprotect]

16. You might also notice not only the pollution of the planet . . .

but the oil industry having given us Global Warming which will serious threaten the fate

of our own species ---

And decades of denial and heavily funded campaigns by the oil industry have sought to

confuse and disinform the public of this --

See the criticism of the Royal Academy of Scientists about a year ago re ExxonMobil and

their lying propaganda ---

[mtf80123]

7. Here... Piggy, piggy, piggy,

piggy!

[orleans]

8. .

whore Audio Help (hôr, hōr) Pronunciation Key
n.
A prostitute.
A person considered sexually promiscuous.
A person considered as having compromised principles for personal gain.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/whore

[rontun]

9. McCain gorging on Oil Money?

Who would have thought? He's as corrupt as the assholes currently occupying 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

[annabanana]

10. flip flopping pays off big time for mccain!

OIL - where the money is

[wordpix]

11. and the Congressional/presidential whoring continues...

:puke: not surprised :puke:

[Kathleen Lucas]

14. The Mind Boggles

I wish this stuff got more play in our supposedly liberal media. Voters should know where his support really lies.