Last week, I posted about a report from the Sunlight Foundation on political campaign contributions from BP and its employees to presidential candidates in the last US elections. Obama received the most. Today, Good Magazine points to related news: "[M]ore oil money goes to Congress as a whole than to presidential candidates." Looking at their list of 10 top BP $$ recipients, more went to Republicans than Democrats, for what that's worth.
BP's contributions to Congress dwarf amount received by Obama (and GOPers got most)
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