Within days of McSame's decision to endorse offshore oil drilling, oil industry money started to pour into his campaign. Big oil was so eager to get as much money as possible to McCain that they broke the law to do so by funnelling money through employees in order to evade campaign finance limits.
This happens all the time, right? Not this way, where thousands of dollars are given to people to donate in their own name. In the most egregious case, an office manager at one of the nation's five biggest auto companies gave over $61,000 to McCain within days of his decision to endorse offshore oil drilling.
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From this article in McClatchy:
Alice Rocchio is an office manager at the New York headquarters of the Hess Corp., drives a 1993 Chevy Cavalier and lives in an apartment in Queens, N.Y., with her husband, Pasquale, an Amtrak foreman.
Despite what appears to be a middle-class lifestyle, the couple has written $61,600 in checks to John McCain's presidential campaign and the Republican National Committee, most of it within days of McCain's decision to endorse offshore oil drilling.
We need to make sure the traditional media covers this story. The only reason McCain has the cash to compete with Obama is because he's getting money funnelled from big oil companies, some of it illegally.