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Title: BP donates big to GOP leadership
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URL Source: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0411/53428.html
Published: Apr 19, 2011
Author: DARREN GOODE
Post Date: 2011-04-19 22:16:59 by Skip Intro
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Views: 6793
Comments: 10
BP is doling out the cash again to lawmakers on Capitol Hill. The company at the center of the storm in last year’s Gulf of Mexico spill sent out its first checks for the 2012 election cycle in March totaling $29,000. They went almost entirely to the campaigns of a handful of House Republican leaders. BP on March 11 gave House Speaker John Boehner the maximum $5,000 contribution that can go toward a candidate’s 2012 primary campaign, according to a Federal Election Commission filing Tuesday, on the eve of the anniversary of the April 20 Deepwater Horizon disaster. House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton also received a $5,000 check on March 1 — but Upton's office says the money was not accepted and returned. Both House and Senate Republican campaign committees received $5,000 checks that day, as did House GOP Whip Kevin McCarthy. House Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp’s campaign received $1,000 on March 11. Republicans weren’t the only benefactors of BP’s initial largess. Rep. Peter Visclosky (D-Ind.) received $3,000 in primary help on March 22. BP’s North American PAC had $332,408 cash on hand at the end of March, according to the filing. The company’s PAC received close to $18,000 in contributions in March and just more than $55,000 for the year.
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#1. To: Skip Intro (#0)
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America...My Kind Of Place...
I've been waiting for two days for someone to comment just so I could say "I didn't know Obama was a Republican". I guess you'll have to do.
Maybe they think they won't be shook down by the GOP for $20 Billion like they were with Obozo..... And I know what you are going to say, but nobody believes it anymore.... only Libs.... (Come on I got $20 on it).....
"I love the 45 caliber M1911, I respect the 9MM M9 Beretta but I only carry a CZ for my own personal protection". Quote courtesy of Lt Col John Dean Cooper, recognized as the Father of Modern Handgunning
Yeah and Goldman Sachs donates BIG to Obama and Democratic politicians. Has the GOP handed out subsidies to BP? No. But Goldman Sachs has gotten several bailouts from the taxpayers, including TARP.
You're kidding me? The oil industry is one of the most heavily subsidized in the US.
America...My Kind Of Place...
After hObama screwed oil companies by prohibiting drilling on their leases, BP is grasping at straws and donating to R's. O is anti civilization, anti human, anti American, and an eco terrorist. So ya, the dims aren't going to be getting many donations from businesses in general. The pubbies are just as bad for the most part, but BP is hoping against hope for a change. Just goes to show how desperate they are.
I recall a re-run of MASH I saw where this uber right winger named Colonel Flagg... Completely WRONG as usual. The government does NOT write checks to the oil industry.
Chuckles...as if... That rig that blew up in the Gulf last year was getting a write off of $1,575,000.00 PER WEEK...
America...My Kind Of Place...
A write off is not a hand our. A write off means they pay less of the money they earned in taxes. The problems is that you leftist SCUM think that the government owns everything so you confused people paying less with the government handing our more.
Jackass - do you even know what the word "subsidy" means? Apparently not. [snicker]
America...My Kind Of Place...
#2. To: war (#1)
#3. To: Skip Intro (#0)
#4. To: Skip Intro (#0)
"Everything that can be invented has been invented."-- Charles Duell, Commissioner of US Patent Office, 1899
#5. To: jwpegler (#4)
Has the GOP handed out subsidies to BP? No.
#6. To: Skip Intro (#0)
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"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
Godwinson posted on 2011-02-23 11:47:32 ET
http://libertysflame.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=18011&Disp=46#C46
#7. To: war (#5)
The oil industry is one of the most heavily subsidized in the US.
"Everything that can be invented has been invented."-- Charles Duell, Commissioner of US Patent Office, 1899
#8. To: jwpegler (#7)
Completely WRONG as usual.
#9. To: war (#8)
write off
"Everything that can be invented has been invented."-- Charles Duell, Commissioner of US Patent Office, 1899
#10. To: jwpegler (#9)
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