With gas prices in Pittsburgh "hovering around the $3 mark", KDKA-TV's Jon Delano went to DC "to get answers from Sen. Rick Santorum (R).
Santorum blames Congress for not approving President Bush's energy plan: "Had we passed that bill five years ago and done what they had suggested, we would not be in the energy situation we are today."
But federal election records show that he has taken more money from oil and gas interests than any Senator except the senator from TX.
Santorum brushed off any suggestion that donations from oil companies were anything unusual.
Santorum: "I probably get more money from just about every industry than any other senator in the country. I don't know how much the oil and natural gas industry has given me, 10, 20, 30 thousand dollars, whatever it is."
Delano reports that number is actually over $400K in Santorum's lifetime and over $100K in the current cycle.
Oh Ricky, you minx, it must be kinda hard out there for a frothy mixture.
0 comments:
Post a Comment