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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: lorne who wrote (85051)	6/2/2010 12:17:49 AM
From: Hope Praytochange	Respond to of 224737

Ms. Lincoln is the top recipient this election cycle of oil and gas industry political donations, according to the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics. Officials at the League of Conservation Voters said they hoped their efforts to target the senator would elevate the spill—and the oil industry's influence in Washington—as a political issue. "Big Oil has another gusher," says the narrator of the new anti-Lincoln ad being launched Wednesday by the League, as a cartoon image shows dollar bills flowing from the Capitol dome. "But this time it's tens of millions in campaign cash." A spokeswoman for Ms. Lincoln, Katie Laning Niebaum, said the conservation group was part of a broader effort by labor unions and other out-of-state groups to "malign Sen. Lincoln's record and bully voters into their agenda." She said the oil industry employs thousands in Arkansas and its campaign donations have no bearing on the senator's views. Ms. Lincoln, for example, supports raising the liability cap, Ms. Niebaum said.