1.0 link 115174 <![CDATA[Anatomy of a Fundraising Gusher, or McCain's Sellout to Big Oil]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-donnelly/anatomy-of-a-fundraising_b_115174.html On June 16th, a day before Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) scheduled to begin a series of big donors fundraising events in Texas, the presidential candidate announced a reversal in his longstanding opposition to coastal drilling for oil.

The reversal was been met with derision by economists, energy CEOs, and environmentalists.

But, on June 17th in Houston, "[an] audience of about 400 people at a ballroom downtown in the nation's energy capital gave him two standing ovations as he called for fewer...

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