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jberryhill Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-24-10 05:44 PM
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ZOMG - Obama's "Halliburton Money"

I'm guessing that there are a lot of people who have never donated to a political campaign who do not realize that one is asked for an employer name.

BP has thousands of employees, many of whom no doubt donated to Barack Obama.

A simple search on Halliburton yields this:

COKER, JAMES
DUNCAN,OK 73533 HALLIBURTON/TOOL TECH 7/29/08 $1,000 Obama, Barack (D)

ENSIGN, PHILO
DENVER,CO 80209 HALLIBURTON/GEOPHYSICIST 6/7/08 $500 Obama, Barack (D)

GREENE, FORREST
DENVER,CO 80210 HALLIBURTON COMPANY/PROGRAM MANAGER 8/6/08 $250 Obama, Barack (D)

GREENE, FORREST
DENVER,CO 80210 HALLIBURTON COMPANY/PROGRAM MANAGER 9/29/08 $250 Obama, Barack (D)

GREENE, FORREST
DENVER,CO 80210 HALLIBURTON COMPANY/PROGRAM MANAGER 8/20/08 $250 Obama, Barack (D)

GUMMATTIRA, KAVERIAPPA
KATY,TX 77450 HALLIBURTON COMPANY/FINANCE & ACCOU 10/17/08 $250 Obama, Barack (D)

GUMMATTIRA, KAVERIAPPA
KATY,TX 77450 HALLIBURTON COMPANY/FINANCE & ACCOU 10/17/08 $250 Obama, Barack (D)

GUMMATTIRA, KAVERIAPPA
KATY,TX 77450 HALLIBURTON COMPANY/FINANCE & ACCOU 10/17/08 $250 Obama, Barack (D)

KILLOUGH, JOHN
HUMBLE,TX 77338 HALLIBURTON/RESEARCH FELLOW 2/6/08 $250 Obama, Barack (D)

LINDQUIST, GRETCHEN
HOUSTON,TX 77007 HALLIBURTON/IT ANALYST 6/4/08 $250 Obama, Barack (D)

NELSON, DAVID
CENTENNIAL,CO 80112 HALLIBURTON/SOFTWARE DEVELOPER 4/28/08 $1,050 Obama, Barack (D)

NELSON, DAVID
CENTENNIAL,CO 80112 HALLIBURTON/SOFTWARE DEVELOPER 3/5/08 $1,000 Obama, Barack (D)

NELSON, DAVID
CENTENNIAL,CO 80112 HALLIBURTON/SOFTWARE DEVELOPER 8/23/08 $500 Obama, Barack (D)

NELSON, DAVID
CENTENNIAL,CO 80112 HALLIBURTON/SOFTWARE DEVELOPER 8/23/08 $500 Obama, Barack (D)

NELSON, DAVID
CENTENNIAL,CO 80112 HALLIBURTON/SOFTWARE DEVELOPER 11/3/07 $250 Obama, Barack (D)

NELSON, DAVID
CENTENNIAL,CO 80112 HALLIBURTON/SOFTWARE DEVELOPER 8/23/08 $-500 Obama, Barack (D)

ROBERT, SHOCK
BRIGHTON,CO 80601 HALLIBURTON/SOFTWARE DEVELOPER 9/2/08 $250 Obama, Barack (D)

SHOCK, ROBERT
BRIGHTON,CO 80601 HALLIBURTON/SOFTWARE DEVELOPER 2/10/08 $250 Obama, Barack (D)

SINES, LAURIE
HOUSTON,TX 77077 HALLIBURTON/SOFTWARE PROJECT MANAGE 1/29/08 $250 Obama, Barack (D)

SINES, LAURIE
HOUSTON,TX 77077 HALLIBURTON/PROJECT MANAGER 8/31/08 $200 Obama, Barack (D)

SINES, LAURIE
HOUSTON,TX 77077 HALLIBURTON/SOFTWARE PROJECT MANAGE 4/29/08 $200 Obama, Barack (D)

THURMAN, MONICA
HOUSTON,TX 77021 HALLIBURTON/HUMAN RESOURCES ATTORNE 2/4/08 $500 Obama, Barack (D)

THURMAN, MONICA
HOUSTON,TX 77021 HALLIBURTON/HUMAN RESOURCES ATTORNE 2/24/08 $500 Obama, Barack (D)

THURMAN, MONICA
HOUSTON,TX 77021 HALLIBURTON/HUMAN RESOURCES ATTORNE 3/29/08 $409 Obama, Barack (D)

THURMAN, MONICA
HOUSTON,TX 77021 HALLIBURTON/HUMAN RESOURCES ATTORNE 6/6/08 $250 Obama, Barack (D)

THURMAN, MONICA
HOUSTON,TX 77021 HALLIBURTON/HUMAN RESOURCES ATTORNE 1/22/08 $250 Obama, Barack (D)

THURMAN, MONICA
HOUSTON,TX 77021 HALLIBURTON/HUMAN RESOURCES ATTORNE 1/22/08 $250 Obama, Barack (D)

THURMAN, MONICA
HOUSTON,TX 77021 HALLIBURTON/HUMAN RESOURCES ATTORNE 6/6/08 $250 Obama, Barack (D)

THURMAN, MONICA
HOUSTON,TX 77021 HALLIBURTON/HUMAN RESOURCES ATTORNE 6/6/08 $-250 Obama, Barack (D)

VELAZQUEZ, MARTIN
CARROLLTON,TX 75007 HALLIBURTON/ENGINEER 9/10/08 $201 Obama, Barack (D)

WILLIAMS, SHERRY
HOUSTON,TX 77006 HALLIBURTON COMPANY/ATTORNEY 10/24/08 $600 Obama, Barack (D)

WILLIAMS, SHERRY
HOUSTON,TX 77006 HALLIBURTON COMPANY/ATTORNEY 9/12/08 $300 Obama, Barack (D)

WILLIAMS, SHERRY D
HOUSTON,TX 77006 HALLIBURTON/VICE PRESIDENT 3/2/08 $300 Obama, Barack (


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What this data reflects are simply relatively small donations made by individuals who identified their employer as "Halliburton".

And this is precisely what we are seeing in the "BP-linked donations" story.

It is arrant nonsense to say because a couple of attorneys, engineers and other people employed by Halliburton made individual donations of their own money, that this was some sort of influence buying campaign by the company itself.

It is simply an artifact of the employer question made in connection with political donations, and the uninformed are just eating this slop up.
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Kerrytravelers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-24-10 05:56 PM
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1. I know a teacher in the teachers' union who is a republican and donates to the republicans.
Edited on Mon May-24-10 05:57 PM by Kerrytravelers
I guess the republicans are in the pockets of the teachers' unions now.
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Barack_America Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-24-10 05:57 PM
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2. Many of those donations also appear to be duplicates.
Same amount of money on the same date.
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movonne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-24-10 05:59 PM
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3. These seems like very little...or is this all they can donate??
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jberryhill Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-24-10 06:04 PM
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5. The individual donation limit is $2500

When you consider the size of the workforce of BP, getting to some 70K dollars is not hard.

Here's the result of a search on "diocese" - thus PROVING that Obama is utterly controlled by Catholics and Episcopalians....

CORREA, JEAN
BRIDGEPORT,CT 06605 DIOCESE OF BRIDGEPORT/BUSINESS MANA 8/14/08 $250 Obama, Barack (D)

CORREA, JEAN
BRIDGEPORT,CT 06605 DIOCESE OF BRIDGEPORT/BUSINESS MANA 10/31/08 $250 Obama, Barack (D)

CORREA, JEAN
BRIDGEPORT,CT 06605 DIOCESE OF BRIDGEPORT/BUSINESS MANA 10/22/08 $250 Obama, Barack (D)

CROWLEY, DENNIS
MORRISTOWN,NJ 07960 DIOCESE OF PATERSON/ROMAN CATHOLIC 2/27/07 $300 Obama, Barack (D)

CROWLEY, DENNIS
MORRISTOWN,NJ 07960 DIOCESE OF PATERSON/ROMAN CATHOLIC 6/18/07 $300 Obama, Barack (D)

CROWLEY, DENNIS
MORRISTOWN,NJ 07960 DIOCESE OF PATERSON/ROMAN CATHOLIC 4/5/07 $300 Obama, Barack (D)

CROWLEY, DENNIS
MORRISTOWN,NJ 07960 DIOCESE OF PATERSON/ROMAN CATHOLIC 3/24/08 $250 Obama, Barack (D)

CROWLEY, DENNIS
MORRISTOWN,NJ 07960 DIOCESE OF PATERSON/ROMAN CATHOLIC 3/6/08 $250 Obama, Barack (D)

EDWARDS, LINDA
LAS VEGAS,NV 89120 DIOCESE OF NV/ UNLV/CLERGY PROFESSO 8/28/08 $500 Obama, Barack (D)

HALL, HOWARD
BATON ROUGE,LA 70821 DIOCESE OF BATON ROUGE/RETIRED 10/1/08 $200 Obama, Barack (D)

HALL, HOWARD
BATON ROUGE,LA 70821 DIOCESE OF BATON ROUGE/RETIRED 10/20/08 $200 Obama, Barack (D)

HALL, LISBETH J MS
S WOODSTOCK,VT 05071 DIOCESE OF MA/EPISCOPAL PRIEST 1/9/08 $500 Obama, Barack (D)

HALL, LISBETH J MS
S WOODSTOCK,VT 05071 DIOCESE OF MA/EPISCOPAL PRIEST 4/24/08 $500 Obama, Barack (D)

HALL, LISBETH J MS
S WOODSTOCK,VT 05071 DIOCESE OF MA/EPISCOPAL PRIEST 10/8/07 $500 Obama, Barack (D)

HALL, LISBETH J MS
S WOODSTOCK,VT 05071 DIOCESE OF MA/EPISCOPAL PRIEST 9/12/07 $250 Obama, Barack (D)

HALL, LISBETH J MS
S WOODSTOCK,VT 05071 DIOCESE OF MA/EPISCOPAL PRIEST 6/27/07 $250 Obama, Barack (D)

Hamilton, Kathleen
Des Moines,WA 98198 Diocese of Olympia 10/24/08 $1,300 Obama, Barack (D)

HAMILTON, KATHLEEN
DES MOINES,WA 98198 DIOCESE OF OLYMPIA/ADMINISTRATIVE ( 9/16/08 $1,000 Obama, Barack (D)

HANNIBAL, SANDI
WASHINGTON,DC 20012 DIOCESE OF WASHINGTON/EPISCOPAL PRI 10/16/08 $500 Obama, Barack (D)

HARRINGTON, RICHARD
SPRINGWATER,NY 14560 DIOCESE OF ROCHESTER/IT MANAGER 3/11/08 $500 Obama, Barack (D)

HAYES, ELYSE
HUNTINGTON,NY 11743 DIOCESE OF ROCKVILLE CENTRE/LIBRARI 3/5/08 $250 Obama, Barack (D)

HOLLINGSWORTH, MARK
SHAKER HEIGHTS,OH 44120 DIOCESE OF OHIO/BISHOP 7/30/08 $2,300 Obama, Barack (D)

HOLLINGSWORTH, MARK
SHAKER HEIGHTS,OH 44120 DIOCESE OF OHIO/BISHOP 7/30/08 $2,300 Obama, Barack (D)

HOLLINGSWORTH, MARK
SHAKER HEIGHTS,OH 44120 DIOCESE OF OHIO/BISHOP 4/30/08 $1,300 Obama, Barack (D)

HOLLINGSWORTH, MARK
SHAKER HEIGHTS,OH 44120 DIOCESE OF OHIO/BISHOP 3/22/08 $1,000 Obama, Barack (D)

HOLLINGSWORTH, MARK
SHAKER HEIGHTS,OH 44120 DIOCESE OF OHIO/BISHOP 7/30/08 $-2,300 Obama, Barack (D)

LARKIN, FR MICHAEL
SIOUX CITY,IA 51103 DIOCESE OF SIOUX CITY, IOWA/CATHOLI 9/4/08 $200 Obama, Barack (D)

LASETER, KATHLEEN
ST THOMAS,VI 00803 DIOCESE OF ST. THOMAS IN THE VI, IN 11/5/07 $500 Obama, Barack (D)

LASETER, KATHLEEN
ST THOMAS,VI 00803 DIOCESE OF ST. THOMAS IN THE VI, IN 1/27/08 $500 Obama, Barack (D)

LASETER, KATHLEEN
ST THOMAS,VI 00803 DIOCESE OF ST. THOMAS IN THE VI, IN 3/25/08 $300 Obama, Barack (D)

Laseter, Kathleen
St Thomas,VI 00803 Diocese of St. Thomas 11/3/08 $250 Obama, Barack (D)

MALOVETZ, GREGORY
SKILLMAN,NJ 08558 DIOCESE OF METUCHEN NJ/CLERGY 6/19/08 $250 Obama, Barack (D)

MAXWELL, ANNE
COVINGTON,LA 70433 DIOCESE OF ATLANTA/EPISCOPAL PRIEST 9/23/08 $250 Obama, Barack (D)

MAXWELL, ANNE
COVINGTON,LA 70433 DIOCESE OF ATLANTA/EPISCOPAL PRIEST 10/23/08 $250 Obama, Barack (D)

MILLER, BRUCE
ALEXANDRIA,LA 71306 DIOCESE OF ALEXANDRIA/CATHOLIC PRIE 8/28/08 $250 Obama, Barack (D)

NAUGHTON, SHARON Y
FLINT,MI 48503 DIOCESE OF E MICH/DEAN OF FORMAITON 4/30/08 $500 Obama, Barack (D)

NAUGHTON, SHARON Y
FLINT,MI 48503 DIOCESE OF E MICH/DEAN OF FORMAITON 6/30/08 $500 Obama, Barack (D)

NAUGHTON, SHARON Y
FLINT,MI 48503 DIOCESE OF E MICH/DEAN OF FORMAITON 10/1/08 $500 Obama, Barack (D)

NAUGHTON, SHARON Y
FLINT,MI 48503 DIOCESE OF E MICH/DEAN OF FORMAITON 7/23/08 $500 Obama, Barack (D)

NAUGHTON, SHARON Y
FLINT,MI 48503 DIOCESE OF E MICH/DEAN OF FORMAITON 10/16/08 $300 Obama, Barack (D)

ODENWELDER, JOHN
ARLINGTON,VA 22207 DIOCESE OF ARLINGTON, VA/NON-PROFIT 10/20/08 $500 Obama, Barack (D)

ODENWELDER, JOHN
ARLINGTON,VA 22207 DIOCESE OF ARLINGTON, VA/NON-PROFIT 8/10/08 $250 Obama, Barack (D)

ROBINSON, V GENE
CONCORD,NH 03301 DIOCESE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE/BISHOP 9/15/08 $1,000 Obama, Barack (D)

ROBINSON, V GENE
CONCORD,NH 03301 DIOCESE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE/BISHOP 1/30/08 $500 Obama, Barack (D)

VALDES, BERT
HUNTINGTON,WV 25701 DIOCESE OF WHEELING-CHARLESTON/RETI 9/10/08 $200 Obama, Barack (D)

WOLFF, CATHERINE MS
STANFORD,CA 94305 DIOCESE OF SAN JOSE/CHAPLAIN 8/25/08 $500 Obama, Barack (D)

YAFFE, DIANNE
CINCINNATI,OH 45208 DIOCESE OF COVINGTON, KY/TEACHER 6/30/08 $250 Obama, Barack (D)

YAFFE, DIANNE
CINCINNATI,OH 45208 DIOCESE OF COVINGTON, KY/TEACHER 6/27/08 $250 Obama, Barack (D)

YAFFE, DIANNE
CINCINNATI,OH 45208 DIOCESE OF COVINGTON, KY/TEACHER 7/8/08 $-250 Obama, Barack (D)
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styersc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-24-10 06:03 PM
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4. Donors are typically asked for their employer so that wealthy
companies cannot give giant contributions and pretend that the money came from multiple employees.
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jberryhill Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-24-10 06:05 PM
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6. Correct - the "BP Money" thing....

...is taking a well-intentioned reporting requirement and using it to make an invalid point.
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Phx_Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-24-10 06:11 PM
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7. Exactly right. I work for one of the big(gest) financial firms and I
supported Obama and donated money to him. I also support strong financial reform and NEVER EVER give a dime to my company's politcal PAC, and I am never pressured to do so.

I like my job and my employer is extremely good it's employees, but that doesn't mean I support everything they support. And it certainly doesn't mean that just because I work for them, they support what I support.
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boomerbust Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-24-10 06:19 PM
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8. Impeach! Impeach!
The evil socialist corporatist muslin !
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emulatorloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-24-10 06:36 PM
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9. Thanks. Some people don't seem to get this. Kicking and Recommending n/t
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FrenchieCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-24-10 06:40 PM
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10. Oh, they get it alright.....but why mess with a perfectly good dramatic headline
depicting this President to be in the pocket of whomever?
That wouldn't be any fun.
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emulatorloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-24-10 06:49 PM
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12. Apparently Sarah Palin is pushing this nonsense, that should give most DU'ers a clue.
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Itchinjim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-24-10 06:47 PM
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11. KNR
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jefferson_dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-24-10 06:54 PM
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13. Some random Halliburton attorney from Texas donated $300 to Obama's campaign in 2008?!
:wow:
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jberryhill Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-24-10 07:13 PM
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14. Why is that hard to believe?

Do you have any idea how many people work in the legal department of a large corporation?
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