Oil Industry Floods McCain With Cash After Offshore Drilling Reversal ($1.1 million in June)

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Oil Industry Floods McCain With Cash After Offshore Drilling Reversal



By Matthew Mosk
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, July 27, 2008; Page A10

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/26/AR2008072601891.html?nav=rss_politics

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.

[KansDem]

1. GOPportunist !!!

We don't need another corporate shill in the White House...:grr:

[Bobcat]

2. Flip-Flop for Dollars

Any news of this on CNN, Fox, MSNBC, ABC. NBC, CBS et al.??????????? If it had been Obama we would be hearing "flip-flop" 24/7..........

[flpoljunkie]

3. McCain has completed the transformation from 'maverick' to shameless 'panderer.'