That's really generous or really illegal
UPDATE: Washington Post has more examples of oddly politically inactive but really, really, generous donors to St. McCain.
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Part of St. McCain's booty in the days after he decided to advocate for offshore drilling.. or more specifically, advocating for more leases of public land/waters to oil companies... oil companies like Hess for instance...
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.
It's ironic, of course, that McCain wants to deep six Amtrak. Pasquale sure is generous, imagine that, contibuting that much money to a guy who wants to eliminate your job. I bet 60 grand buys a lot of'93 chevy cavaliers. To be fair, it may have low mileage..
Now this is not ironic, I think they call this, "quite a coincidence":
The donations, first traced by Campaign Money Watch last week, were part of $1.2 million in oil industry contributions to McCain's Victory '08 Committee, 73 percent coming after McCain reversed his long-held opposition to offshore oil drilling. The non-partisan watchdog group said oil executives and their spouses from Colorado, Mississippi, Louisiana, California, Indiana, New Jersey and Florida also donated.
I'm guessing this contribution will be returned soon...
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- August 5, 2008
McCain loves the troops
Many don't understand why McCain has voted again and again against our troops. He voted against safety equipment and against medical care and against educational benefits. Yet he says repeatedly that he is a huge supporter of the troops. Is he lying? How can he vote against them and yet say he supports them?
The answer is simple. Most of those bills were expected to be paid for using money generated from closing tax loopholes for corporations. The family McCain has hundreds of millions of dollars. He isn't against the troops, he is simply protecting his families investments.
It's possible that in McCain's big picture, keeping this vast fortune intact may be more important than a few troops.
Why would I make such an outlandish statement?
McCain walked around a Baghdad market surrounded by 150 troops he was using as human body shields. He put them in great danger for a photo op. It's obvious that to him, the photo op was worth the risk to a few dozen soldiers. He showed no concern for their safety. He said it was perfectly safe, and to him, it was.
I didn't see Obama walking around a Baghdad market surrounded by troops and Iraq is supposed to be even safer today.
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By deanrddAugust 6, 2008 - 9:30am