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BP ponies up for California candidates in wake of oil spill

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Since last month’s oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, BP has been in damage-control mode. The company has also been actively politically, with California candidates among the dozens who have received cash from the embattled oil company since the spill began.

According to numbers from the Center for Responsive Politics, the company has given more than $7,000 since the spill began to Democrats and Republicans who either hold, or are seeking, state office in California.

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Among the recipients are:

  • Assembly Republican leader Martin Garrick ($1,000)
  • Democratic state Senate candidate Michael Rubio ($1,000)
  • Democratic Assembly candidate Pete Parra ($1,000)
  • Vice Chairman of the California State Board of Equalization Jerome Horton, a Democrat ($750)
  • Democratic Assembly candidate Nora Campos ($750)
  • Republican Assembly candidate Allan Mansoor ($750)
  • Republican Assembly candidate Jerry Amante ($750)
  • Democratic state Sen. Rod Wright ($750)
  • Republican state Sen. Bob Dutton ($500)

You can see more about BP’s political giving here.

-- Anthony York in Sacramento

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