Brownwood Gas: Fill up and track your dollars to the Politics !

Exxon's Contributions to Political Candidates
Exxon was among the top 100 contributors to candidates in the 1996 presidential elections, donating $593,928. 4.2%of this went towards Democratic candidates and 95.4% went to Republican candidates.
In 1998, Mobil and Exxon had the largest lobbying expenditures compared with all other oil companies.  Mobil Oil came in first with $6,160,000 in 1998 with 16% going to Democrats and 84% going to Republicans.  Exxon had $5,620,000 in lobbying expenditures in the same year with 12% going to Democrats and 88% going to Republicans.
(this data was obtained from the Center for Responsive Politics, cited at the end of this information sheet)
source: http://www.stanford.edu/group/SICD/ExxonMobil/exxonmobil.html
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Mr Alford was on Brownwood Talk Radio this morning demonizing the " Liberals", Democrats & Hillary Clinton " for their push for a debate on Windfall Profits. After a little checking, I better understand why Mr Alford wanted to make it a "Liberal" issue. His organization has been given money by Exxon/Mobil. Are the Republicans and Exxon calling in their "Chits" ? I took Mr Alford's words "Money talks" to heart and combined them with another great quote from another Brownwood Republican Talking Head "Follow the money". Oh, by the way, when I fill up at Exxon/Mobil stations (on occasion), I do think of these facts !
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Mr Allford's Group has received $90,000 from ExxonMobil since 1998.

2003
$40,000 ExxonMobil Foundation
Source: ExxonMobil 2003 Corporate Giving Report

2004
$50,000 ExxonMobil Foundation
Source: Exxon Giving Report 2004
source: http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfactsheet.php?id=113