Adam Smith at the Public Campaign Action Fund has a simple but telling post up: Big Oil Spill and Big Oil Cash. He provides a graphic with the images of Senators on the Energy & Natural Resources Committee and the Environment & Public Works Committee … and the amount of campaign contribution cash that they’ve received from the Oil & Natural Gas industries over the past 20 years. These are the people who are quizzing (or who are quizzical in front of) Big Pollution (BP) executives as to Deepwater Horizon and the massively growing oil catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico.
Looking at these suggests a basic question: Who do you think fossil foolish interests have more likely bought:
- Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) with $4,800 in oil & natural gas contributions or Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) with $766,535 in contributions?
- Sen Jeff “Energy Smart” Merkley (D-OR) with $2,500 or Sen James Inhofe (R-OK) with $1,228,223?
- Sen Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) with $22,500 or Sen Arlen Spector (D?-PA) with $561,428?
- Sen Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) with $33,650 or Sen Blanche Lincoln (D?-AR) with $537,625?
- Sen Jeanne Shaheed (D-NH) with $21,000 or Sen Bob Corker (R-TN) with $310,400?
When it comes to asking hard questions of BP executives about the Deepwater Horizon (continuing) disaster, which Senators do you expect to throw softballs and which hardballs?
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