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rdean
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Your thread....how much did he take?
I know. From the company, he didn't take anything, but from the 80 thousand employees, he took 70 thousand dollars.
I await the documentation that 80,000 employees from BP donated $70,000. First hole in that would be the legality of a foreign national donating money to a political campaign.
BP Spent Millions on Lobbying, Campaign Donations - Political Hotsheet - CBS News
----the 2008 campaign cycle, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, individuals and political action committees (PACs) associated with oil-giant BP contributed about $500,000 to federal candidates. About 40 percent went to Democrats.
---- top recipient overall? President Obama, who got $71,000 from the company tied to the environmental disaster in the Gulf, according to the group.
---- the money that flowed to Mr. Obama during the campaign from BP came from individual employees, not PACs or federal lobbyists.
----in response to news of the contributions that Mr. Obama that "since he became president, he rolled back tax breaks and giveaways for the oil and gas industry, spearheaded a G20 agreement to phase out fossil fuel subsidies, and made the largest investment in American history in clean energy incentives."
They are talking about the very stimulus package that Republicans didn't want. Either Obama is in the pocket of Big Oil or he is pro clean energy. You can't have it both ways.