Chevron Donates $2.5 Million To GOP Super PAC In Single Largest Corporate Donation
Source: Think Progress
Chevron, the second-largest oil company in the U.S. and eighth-largest in the world, contributed $2.5 million in October to the Congressional Leadership Fund, a super PAC to elect House Republicans. That makes Chevron’s super PAC donation the single largest from a corporation.
The donation comes after House Republicans voted 109 times this Congress to enrich oil companies. According to Public Campaign Action Fund’s Adam Smith:
The donation appears to be the largest from a publicly-traded corporation in the post-Citizens United era. The corporate donation is double what the company’s PAC and employees have already donated to federal candidates and committees this cycle, according to analysis of data from the Center for Responsive Politics.
The company’s donation arrives in an election year where the oil industry has waged multimillion-dollar ad campaigns, including American Petroleum Institute’s campaign in swing states. Chevron has also sent 91 percent of its federal political contributions to Republican candidates. So far this year, fossil fuel groups have spent more than $153 million on campaign ads to promote pro-fossil fuel candidates.
Read more: http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/10/26/1094541/chevron-election-republicans/
Billionaires and oil companies once again continue their campaign to Post-Citizens United campaign to buy the 2012 elections.
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God help us if Romney/Ryan are elected (because "we" didn't GOTV)
