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by Greg Sargent
08.07.08 | 1:51 pm

Remember the roughly $300,000 that Hess oil execs dumped into the RNC-McCain campaign coffers around the time of his flip on offshore drilling?

Turns out two high-ranking McCain campaign officials were paid lobbyists for Hess oil for years, and one still may be.

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