Obama and Yucco Mountain
One of Sen. Obama's biggest donors is the energy giant Exelon. Exelon is the sixth largest donor to Sen. Obama's presidential campaign and the fourth largest career donor to Obama's federal campaigns. Exelon employees have donated over $269,100 to his federal campaigns and over $194,750 in 2008 as shown by opensecrets.org.
Exelon's CEO is also a key advocate for storing nuclear waste at Yucca. So what does Exelon Chief Executive Officer John Rowe want? Fortune magazine, in a May 15, 2006 article titled 'Meet Mr. Nuke', details Rowe's call to solve the waste problem before additional nuclear power plants are built. " We have to be able to look the public in the eye and say,' If we build a plant, here's where the waste will go', Rowe told Fortune. The Yucca Mountain Project is the "linchpin" to solving the waste problem and building new plants.
Exelon has spent millions lobbying to open up Yucca Mountain, for instants, in 2002; Exelon spent $2,172,000 dollars on lobbying the federal government on issues including 'Yucca Mountain Project Management'. In 2003, again, Exelon spent $2,864,400 dollars on lobbying the federal government on issues including 'Yucca Mountain Project Management'. Then, yet again, in 2004, Exelon spent another $1,000,000 dollars on lobbying the federal government
If that's not alarming enough, in 2005, Exelon spent $1,815,000 dollars on lobbying the federal government on issues including 'the Department of Energy's Yucca Mountain Project'. Again in 2006 and 2007, Exelon spent millions more lobbying on the 'Yucca Mountain' issue. If anyone in Nevada is having a difficult time deciding who to caucus for, the issue of Yucca Mountain should be at the forefront on their minds. Obama is clearly not the choice.
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Post a CommentGood research, I hope the Clinton campaign has you on their paid staff because you deserve to be and that is not a snark or a criticism.
My search of the opensecrets.org database shows Obama at slightly over $127,000 from Exelon employees, but even if your nearly $200,000 number is correct, out of $80,000,000 raised, this hardly suggests the guy has been "bought" by Exelon. If you tipped a cabbie one fourth of one percent of the total fare...would you own them?