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Follow
the Money
June
17, 2010
As
I sit here watching the Senate hearing with BP CEO Tony Hayward, I
naturally start thinking about how much money the oil companies give
directly to our so-called duly elected representatives. As you know,
it is my personal and professional opinion that our representatives do
not act in our best interest first, they consider us second and
consider first those that pay them more money then we do.
With
the recent Supreme Court decision regarding corporations and our
elections, the Campaign Finance Ruling, this will just get worse.
In
the 2009, 2010 111th congress, oil companies gave $1,350,808.00
directly to congressional campaigns. Here is a breakdown of those
contributions.
| Chevron
Corporation |
$125,450.00 |
| Koch
Industries |
$123,550.00 |
| Exxon
Mobile |
$
98,000.00 |
| Valero
Energy |
$
72,300.00 |
| Marathon
Oil |
$
67,650.00 |
| Oil
& Gas |
$
66,458.00 |
| Oil
& Gas Producers |
$
52,750.00 |
| Anadarko
Petroleum |
$
52,400.00 |
| Occidental
Petroleum |
$
51,200.00 |
| Williams
Companies |
$
49,000.00 |
| Bass
Brothers |
$
45,200.00 |
| Quintana
Minerals |
$
44,800.00 |
| Conoco
Phillips |
$
43,500.00 |
| Tesoro
Petroleum |
$
39,000.00 |
| Jma
Energy |
$
38,600.00 |
| XTO
Energy |
$
36,900.00 |
| Southwestern
Energy |
$
36,800.00 |
| Chesapeake
Energy |
$
32,450.00 |
| Apache
Energy |
$
31,200.00 |
| Murphy
Oil |
$
27,900.00 |
| IPAA |
$
27,000.00 |
| Berexco |
$
24,700.00 |
| SIGM |
$
24,000.00 |
Here
are the top recipients of that money.
| Lincoln,
Blanche Lambert |
Dem |
AR |
$216,700.00 |
| Vitter,
David |
Rep |
AL |
$170,200.00 |
| Murkowski,
Lisa |
Rep |
AK |
$146,550.00 |
| Bennett,
Robert F. |
Rep |
UT |
$117,650.00 |
| Cornyn,
John |
Rep |
TX |
$
87,575.00 |
| Coburn,
Thomas A. |
Rep |
OK |
$
76,500.00 |
| Specter,
Arlen |
Dem |
PA |
$
74,000.00 |
| Dorgan,
Byron L. |
Dem |
ND |
$
70,950.00 |
| Bayh,
Evan |
Dem |
IN |
$
62,150.00 |
| Demint,
James W. |
Rep |
SC |
$
58,850.00 |
| Burr,
Richard |
Rep |
NC |
$
55,050.00 |
| Grassley,
Charles E. |
Rep |
IA |
$
53,400.00 |
| Landrieu,
Mary L. |
Dem |
LA |
$
51,850.00 |
| Nelson,
E. Benjamin |
Dem |
NE |
$
48,900.00 |
It
is critically important that we do everything possible to separate our
government from the corporations. Nothing for the benefit of the
people will happen otherwise. Corporate America and the mega
corporations own our government plain and simple and it must stop.
In
total, our representatives have accepted $143,831,148. Democrats have
accepted $38,188,446, Republicans $105,362,292, and others $280,410.
That is just from the oil industry.
Source-Opensecrets.org
Mr.
Green
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