Big Oil Apologist Haley Barbour Raises More Than $2 Million In Oil Money For RGA
OPS_admin | Jul 27, 2010 | Comments 0
Thanks to Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour’s (R) prodigious fundraising, which continued apace even the very same day the oil slick reached Mississippi, the Republican Governors Association was able to raise an astonishing $19 million last quarter. A ThinkProgress review of RGA documents recently filed with the Internal Revenue Service reveals that a significant portion of last quarter’s haul—more than $2,000,000—came from oil and gas industry interests, including:
# $1,000,000 from infamous right-wing oil billionaire and tea party-funder David Koch.
# $250,000 from Devon Energy
# $150,000 from Chevron
# $100,000 from ExxonMobil
# $100,000 from Hunt Oil
# $25,000 from Marathon Oil
# $25,000 each from Bollinger Shipyards and the president of Gilbert Cheramie Boat, both of which provide support services to the offshore oil drilling industry.
Full Story: Think Progress » Big Oil Apologist Haley Barbour Raises More Than $2 Million In Oil Money For RGA.
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