Romney Super Pac: Federal Contractors' Future Restored
The GOP Standard Bearer is also the Standard Bearer of Federal Contractors looking for a pay day at tax payers' expense.
Oxbow Carbon, a major coal and petroleum supplier that gave Restore Our Future $750,000 last year, now says its contracts to sell fuel to the federal government are through a sister company that is a separate legal entity — an arrangement that allows it to skirt the prohibition on federal contractors making political expenditures....Oxbow Carbon & Minerals, controls the firms that have sold coal to the Air Force and the Tennessee Valley Authority, said spokesman Brad Goldstein. According to federal contracting records, the company received at least $21 million to provide the fuel....most major super PACs explicitly warn donors on their websites that federal contractors cannot give. But Restore Our Future took a different posture, soliciting money from companies that work for the government.
Restore Our Future 'super PAC' rethinks donations from federal contractors - latimes.com
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Top Organizations Donating to Restore Our Future, 2012
http://www.opensecrets.org/outsidespending/contrib.php?cmte=C00490045&type=T
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Donors to Restore Our Future, 2012
http://www.opensecrets.org/outsidespending/contrib.php?cmte=C00490045&type=A
The GOP Standard Bearer is also the Standard Bearer of Federal Contractors looking for a pay day at tax payers' expense.
Oxbow Carbon, a major coal and petroleum supplier that gave Restore Our Future $750,000 last year, now says its contracts to sell fuel to the federal government are through a sister company that is a separate legal entity — an arrangement that allows it to skirt the prohibition on federal contractors making political expenditures....Oxbow Carbon & Minerals, controls the firms that have sold coal to the Air Force and the Tennessee Valley Authority, said spokesman Brad Goldstein. According to federal contracting records, the company received at least $21 million to provide the fuel....most major super PACs explicitly warn donors on their websites that federal contractors cannot give. But Restore Our Future took a different posture, soliciting money from companies that work for the government.
Restore Our Future 'super PAC' rethinks donations from federal contractors - latimes.com
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Top Organizations Donating to Restore Our Future, 2012
http://www.opensecrets.org/outsidespending/contrib.php?cmte=C00490045&type=T
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Donors to Restore Our Future, 2012
http://www.opensecrets.org/outsidespending/contrib.php?cmte=C00490045&type=A
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