The New York Times wrote about how Barack Obama, in addition to receiving millions in small-dollar donations, relies heavily on big donors and donation bundlers.
Meanwhile, the Washington Post reported that one of John McCain’s bundlers is the owner of an oil-trading company that recently inked defense contracts potentially worth more than $1 billion.
McClatchy newspapers also reported on how a middle-class couple from New York have written $61,600 in checks to McCain’s presidential campaign and the Republican National Committee, most of it within days of McCain’s decision to endorse offshore oil drilling. The woman, who drives a 1993 Chevy Cavalier, works as an office manager for Hess Corp., which does deepwater drilling. 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.
Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan., has introduced a Senate resolution that “congratulates the Focus on the Family radio program, its staff, and its founder and chairman, James Dobson, for their excellence in radio programming and the program’s worthy induction into the National Radio Hall of Fame.” Will Brownback seek to similarly honor other 2008 inductees, including Art Bell, Howie Carr and Charlie Tuna (who once worked at Wichita’s KLEO)?
“If we’re going to get serious about putting our nation’s fiscal house in order, let’s talk about putting an end to billions in no-bid contract awards to unaccountable contractors,” Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., wrote in a Wall Street Journal commentary critical of the Bush administration. “Let’s talk about the number of lucrative contracts and bonuses being paid for duties never performed, promises never fulfilled, and contracts falsely described as complete. And let’s talk about reforming the federal contracting system so that we can take on the real waste, fraud and abuse in our federal government.”
The New York Times wrote about how Barack Obama, in addition to receiving millions in small-dollar donations, relies heavily on big donors and donation bundlers.
