I just heard the author of "The Bush Agenda" say that the three

[Hieronymus]

candidates who got the most from the oil industry are, in order, Giuliani, Romney, and Hillary.

[shadowknows69]

1. I'm waiting for the feeling of surprise to hit me

but I suspect it might be a while.

[papau]

2. Does open secrets confirm that ?

[Hieronymus]

3. Perhaps you should look it up.

[warren pease]

5. Yeah, it does...

Right here.

However, none of those numbers is very significant in the grand mix of corporate bribes these three have taken so far this year. Clinton has raked in about $91 million, Ghouliani about $31 million and Romney about $54 million. Exact numbers here.


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[papau]

7. Thanks for the info - I wonder if Dennis Kucinich should give back the $700 he received?

Rudolph W. Giuliani (R)


graph $545,058

Mitt Romney (R)


graph $309,933

Hillary Clinton (D)


graph $220,550

John McCain (R)


graph $189,935

Bill Richardson (D)


graph $126,600

Fred Thompson (R)


graph $112,650

Barack Obama (D)


graph $106,112

Sam Brownback (R)


graph $54,415

Christopher J. Dodd (D)


graph $38,550

Ron Paul (R)


graph $34,102

John Edwards (D)


graph $27,850

Mike Huckabee (R)


graph $18,450

Joseph R. Biden Jr. (D)


graph $16,650

Tom Tancredo (R)


graph $6,450

Mike Gravel (D)


graph $2,000

Duncan Hunter (R)


graph $1,800

Dennis J. Kucinich (D)


graph $700

[mmonk]

4. No surprise.

[LeFleur1]

6. Wait

" and contributions from individuals giving more than $200."

What does that mean? Does it mean that people who work for oil companies, who are Democrats, and contributed are counted as OIL MONEY?

[mmonk]

8. That would have to be determined

by how oil companies deals with memos asking their employees to vote for certain candidates to "protect their interests".

[papau]

10. I work for the Met and they do send out political memo's - but somehow that doesn't affect my $/vote

[mmonk]

11. It may not yours, but maybe someone else.

The "proposed threat" of job loss trumpeted to some people if they don't vote for certain candidates has always had it's effect on employees that don't know better. As far as Antonia Juhasz goes, what she says you can take to the bank. She has been a trade representative.

[papau]

12. She is referring to Pac contributions - which management does review and which are "industry"

contributions.

Unfortunately the data the FEC gets/gives(?) does not break out pac from non-pac - at least not in the summaries provided to us to date.

[papau]

9. Yes - silly as it sounds - many at DU pretend employee giving means industry bribing :-)

[peacetalksforall]

13. I'm not following this carefully, but I 'feel' that those are the three that

are getting most of the attention by GE, Time-Warner, Murcdoch, Disney, Viacom, etc. All linked up.

[Lord Wortherington]

14. 9/11iani will be the new pResident