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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...