ThinkProgressreportsthat oil company British Petroleum (BP) broke a self-imposed freeze on political contributions to make big donations to a few key Republicans in Congress, as well as some of the party's electoral campaigns. BP gave $5,000 each to House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy (R-California) and Rep. Fred Upton (R-Michigan), who is the chairman of the Energy Committee. Upton was the only one of the three to return the contribution. Other GOP leaders received between $1,000 and $3,000, while the National Republican Congressional Committee and the National Republican Senatorial Committee got $10,000.
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What? No comments from the Republican readers?
ReplyDeleteYou complain about higher gas/heating prices and you blame it on Obama but look who's getting lined pockets???
1118-Obama has recieved more political donations from BP than any other US politician over the past 20 years(Look it up, I ain't lying!). Know you're facts before you call out Repubs, demotard.
ReplyDeleteDitto. 11:52 took the words right out of my head. Obama and the dems got millions not thousands.
ReplyDeleteWhite House Response to donation:
ReplyDelete"Call Obama and tell him to come out here and BOW to the BP guys b/c they are giving our money away to the wrong persons..."
Point is: None of them should be getting campaign contributions from corporate America, period!
ReplyDeleteThat's what's happened in this country and why the little man no longer matters!
OUR votes don't matter. Our wishes don't matter. They no longer represent US, they represent the big corporations!