Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Stunning Partisan Fact of the Day

When we look at the partisanship of business, we generally see established businesses subscribe to conservative politics, and young companies tend to adapt more progressive policies.  Even more so, we tend to associate Big Oil with the Republican party.

But did you know.....?  LA-based Occidental Petroleum, the third largest US oil company, made political campaign contributions in favor of Democrats at a clip of 1.47 to 1 in 2008.  True Story.

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