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Top McCain Officials Were Paid Oil Lobbyists


First Posted: 08- 7-08 04:36 PM   |   Updated: 09- 7-08 05:12 AM

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Talking Points Memo:

Okay, here's some more on the ties between the McCain campaign and the Hess Corporation, the company whose senior executives all dumped $28,500 apiece into the RNC-McCain fundraising committee at around the same time as McCain reversed his previous opposition to offshore drilling.

It turns out that two high-ranking McCain campaign officials, one of whom is also one of McCain's more prolific bundlers, were both were paid lobbyists for Hess for roughly three years, according to disclosure forms.

Read the whole story: Talking Points Memo

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