A Year After Spill, BP Gives Big Bucks To GOP Leadership

[babsbunny]

http://thinkprogress.org/2011/04/20/bp-contributions-gop-leadership/

BP has broken a self-imposed moratorium on political donations to make big contributions to key Republican congressional leaders and the party’s electoral campaigns. Its first round of political contributions for the 2012 cycle total $29,000 and it “went almost entirely to the campaigns of a handful of House Republican leaders.” BP North America’s PAC gave $5,000 each to House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) and House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), along with $10,000 to the National Republican Congressional Committee and the National Republican Senatorial Committee, which are tasked with electing more Republicans to Congress.

Notably, BP also gave $5,000 to Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), who has used his chairmanship of the Energy Committee to push legislation friendly to oil companies like BP. However, Upton told The Hill “he is not accepting the contribution and will return it to BP.” The company also gave $1,000 to Rep. Dave Camp (R-MI), who chairs the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee. Rep. Pete Visclosky (D-IN), the only Democrat to which BP donated, received $3,000.

[Blue Owl]

1. When you need to polish a turd...

You can always, always count on the GOP's expert leadership.

[classysassy]

2. Bribes

accepted.It is disgusting how we the people let the people we elect take money from the people that harm our citizens,all congress criminals that take bribes should go to jail.

[Dr Fate]

3. Dont worry- Elected DEMS will turn this into a media shit storm of controversey and shame the GOP.

In some alternate dimension.

The ones we have will probably stay quite about this and hope for more $3000 checks.

Maybe we will get some strongly worded web-only "letters" or "releases". I'd look for it on a Friday around 5:30PM, if it even materializes.