Popeye
Well-Known Member
Ever wonder why John McCain did such a turnaround on offshore oil drilling? If you take a look at some numbers you'll get a pretty good idea:
Yeah, McCain gave the usual reasons for the change of heart, rising gas prices etc. but:
I guess you could look at it this way...the Republican party has been in bed with the fossil fuel industry from the beginning, why should John McCain be any different?
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/07/27/MN4I120EGN.DTL
Campaign contributions from oil industry executives to Sen. John McCain rose dramatically in the last half of June, after the senator from Arizona made a high-profile split with environmentalists and reversed his position on the federal ban on offshore drilling.
Oil and gas industry executives and employees donated $1.1 million to McCain last month - three-quarters of which came after his June 16 speech calling for an end to the ban - compared with $116,000 in March, $283,000 in April and $208,000 in May.
Yeah, McCain gave the usual reasons for the change of heart, rising gas prices etc. but:
McCain delivered the speech before heading to Texas for a series of fund-raisers with energy industry executives, and the day after the speech he raised $1.3 million at a private luncheon and reception at the San Antonio Country Club, according to local news accounts.
"The timing was significant," said David Donnelly, the national campaigns director of the Public Campaign Action Fund, a nonpartisan campaign finance reform group that conducted the analysis of McCain's oil industry contributions. "This is a case study of how a candidate can change a policy position in the interest of raising money."
I guess you could look at it this way...the Republican party has been in bed with the fossil fuel industry from the beginning, why should John McCain be any different?
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/07/27/MN4I120EGN.DTL