Oil and gas industry gave $266k to Dole

U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Dole has accepted more than a quarter of a miillion dollars from oil and gas companies and their employees.

According to the nonprofit Center for Responsive Politics, the Salisbury Republican has received $266,456 from people associated with the oil and gas industry since 2002. Of that, $102,827 — or roughly 39 percent — came in the past two years.

Dole received much more from other industries, however.

Over her career, she's received $2.6 million from retirees, $903,810 from lawyers, $853,063 from people in real estate and $747,736 from employees of investment firms. Donations from the oil and gas sector were 14th among industries who gave to Dole.

Donors include Texas oilman T. Boone Pickens, who gave $1,000 in April; and American Petroleum Institute president Red Cavaney, who gave $4,100 in 2007.

In addition, Dole has received $35,000 from oil and gas companies' political action committees since 2002, including $10,000 from Piedmont Natural Gas, $6,000 from ExxonMobil and $5,000 from Valero Energy.

Of that money, $30,500 came in the past two years.

After the jump, the contributions.

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Contributions from oil and gas company political action committees to U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Dole since 2002. 

2004
American Gas Association, $1,000
Marathon Oil, $1,000
Piedmont Natural Gas, $500
Valero Energy, $2,000

2008
ConocoPhillips, $3,000
ExxonMobil, $6,000
Halliburton, $1,000
Koch Industries, $2,500
Marathon Oil, $1,000
Piedmont Natural Gas, $10,000
Sunoco, $1,000
Valero Energy, $5,000
Williams Companies, $1,000

SOURCE: Center for Responsive Politics