John McCain (R-Hess) — In The Tank For Big Oil

I’ve previously noted McSame’s weird habit of bragging about how "oil executives" love his energy plan. Looks like it’s paying off.

Senator John McCain received a burst of donations in June from oil company employees after he came out in favor of offshore drilling, according to a report released last week by Campaign Money Watch, a watchdog organization.

But the largest collective response from a single company, the report noted, came from the Hess Corporation. Together, Hess employees or their relatives poured out more than $300,000 to Mr. McCain’s joint fund-raising committee with the Republican National Committee in June, according to campaign finance records.

TPM has a lot more on the story, and unearthed some rather dubious looking contributions from low level Hess employees. And now the Houston Chronicle also reports the spike of oil money flowing into McSame’s campaign after he flip-flopped on drilling.

Big Oil got their man.

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