4824guyThe oil companies are in Bush's back pocket, make no mistake about that.
climateark.org
Acceptance of large amounts of fossil fuel money by the front-runners should come as no surprise since both men's fathers were oilmen.
When Al Gore Sr. lost his U.S. Senate seat in 1970, legendary businessman Armand Hammer tapped him as president of Occidental's Island Creek Coal, then the nation's third largest coal mining concern. Later, Gore Sr. made $750,000 annually as a vice president and board member at Occidental Petroleum.
"Gore Senior had never been rich 'till he worked for Hammer," author Edward Jay Epstein of the book "Dossier; The Secret History of Armand Hammer," told Reuters. In 1966, Gore Sr. brought Hammer and Libya's King Idris together, an event that led to Occidental's biggest concession - a billion-barrel Libyan oil field. Hammer died in 1990, but Ray Irani, Occidental's current chief executive officer, for years one of country's highest paid corporate executives ,has been no stranger to the White House. In election year 1996, Irani donated $100,000 of 'soft money' to the Democratic National Committee.
Look at this
chart. and then tell me who the biggest contributors were.
Look at this chart of Gore's
contributors. Lawyers and lobbyists are the largest contributors. I don't think the democrats have much room to argue which side was bought out if any.
sandorski I would also be interested in some documentation as to your claim.
Soapdish "People like you give the US a bad name. Intolerant. Arrogant. Wrong."
"That's what I love about you mindless republicans,"
If you had bothered to actually read the article I posted you would have seen the date. Try reading then come back and talk about it.
As for your degeneration into name-calling, I'll take that as you being out of any valid arguments.