Who Took the Most Campaign Money from Big Oil?
Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, or John McCain - Each Has Accepted Over $100 Thousand Dollars
If our country operates on the principal that nobody gets something for nothing, it's worth a look to see which of the three remaining candidates, Democrat Barack Obama, Republican John McCain, and Democrat Hillary Clinton all stand in relation to campaign contributions from the oil industry; Exon, Shell, Occidental, Global Partners Ltd., ConocoPhillips, etc. The very corporations and companies that may be or may not be manipulating the prices of oil to line the pockets of their shareholders. The companies and corporations traditionally associated, at least by Democrats, with big money, old money, Texas money, smart money and Republicans.
Unlikely as it sounds, it's Democrat Hillary Clinton who has taken the most from big oil money of the big three candidates. It's also a fact according to Follow The Oil Money, a website that compiles statistics on who is taking what from who at oilmoney.priceofoil.org/federalRaceGraph.php. And in Hillary Clinton's case she has taken a whopping $267 thousand dollars from big oil interests to fuel her campaign. In second place is Republican John McCain with $229 thousand dollars in big oil contributions. Coming in last in big oil money contributions is Democrat Barack Obama. But before crowning Senator Obama a man of the people, Obama was no slouch either, having accepted over $128 thousand dollars from big oil interests. The actual number of contributing oil corporations in Barack Obama's case were fewer and the contributions themselves were generally smaller. The politician who benefitted the most from big oil campaign contributions in the 2008 Presidential campaign was former Presidential candidate Republican Rudy Giuliani with $634 thousand dollars.
By constrast, in the 2004 Presidential election George Bush ran for re-election with the help of $2.5 million dollars from the oil industry, an indication that the "Big Oil President" label he's been given by political opponents has a basis in fact. His Democratic competitor in that election, John Kerry, took $187 thousand dollars in oil money by comaprison to fuel his campaign for the White House in 2004.
Bush took $1.95 million dollars from big oil during his first campaign for President in 2000 compared to only $142 thousand dollars taken in by Democrat challenger Al Gore.
SOURCE:
Follow the Oil Money, @ oilmoney.priceofoil.org/federalRaceGraph.php
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Post a CommentObama, Hillary, and McCain are typical politicians. All three have recieved campaign contributions from investment banks which recieved $200 billion bank bail out money from the Federal Reserve. Now, if these banks have enough money to contribute to political campaigns then perhaps they don't need $200 billion tax payer dollars to line their pockets or the pockets of the candidates. Presidential candidates with oil, healthcare, banks and other special interests pulling their strings make me nervous. I'm voting for Nader, he's not getting money from big oil or big banks. NADER 2008
Hillarious! Hillary took the MOST money from Big Oil, yet she just posted a memo accussing Obama of taking oil money. Her lies and deception are just too much! LOL!
..on our way to more accountability and better government in DC.
..give us equal access to all candidates. Perhaps via a 24/7 citizen monitored television station and/or website. The problem is when lobbyists can buy favors from those they give $$$ to. Like Bill in Arkansas when he wrote a law to favor one of his gas company buddies. Hillary pointed out a conflict of interest for GWB on the east coast Dubai port deal citing Neil Bush. She forgot to mention her own potential conflict of interest with Bill and his Dubai partners. Scary there is that Dubai (China, Turkey, Tawain etal) hire people to curry favor from our government. It seems these lobbyists do contribute to campaigns and that a Dubai lobbyist does contribute to Hillary. Obama and 17 other bipartisan Congress people did get OPEN Government Act of 2007 passed in conjunction with the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act, making the US Spending site a reality. Both Clinton and Obama co-sponsored with 8 others the Election Fraud Prevention Act...so perhaps we are on our way t
Quite interesting. I have spent some time at Open Secrets online studying individual contributers to candidates and how much PAC money given and from who the PACs are. They have listed that 72% of contributions from people who work in the oil and gas industry go to Republicans, whereas 77% Lawyers/Law Firms workers give to Democrats. Health Professionals give 54% to Dem. and 46% Rep. Interesting is that Obama's Hope Fund Political Action Committe gave $4,200. to Hillary in her 2004 election campaign (bet he never donates to help her again, eh). I forget off the top of my head how much Clinton's Hill PAC gave to Governor Richardson, for example. It seems both Hope Fund and Hill PAC have donated to Senator Ted Kennedy and Senator Feinstein's campaigns. I am with Obama on this one. The government (or our tax dollars) should be funding campaigns (he did not say it that way). Money raised should not give one candidate an edge of others. The gov is us, so the gov should budget to give us eq