Natural gas industry spent heavily on Pennsylvania Republican candidates

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Natural gas industry spent heavily on Pennsylvania Republican candidates

By John P. Martin

Inquirer Staff Writer

On the day Pennsylvanians elected Republican Tom Corbett governor, his campaign logged four donations.

Two came from individuals, a third from the state Republican Party. The fourth, campaign reports show, was $1,000 from the natural-gas driller Range Resources.

For a candidate who raised nearly $30 million, that $1,000 from the Texas company was a drop in the bucket. But it underscored the role the natural-gas industry played, even at the closing moments, in an election critical to its future.

The gas firms, their employees, or others who stand to gain as Marcellus Shale drilling expands put more than $500,000 into Pennsylvania candidates' coffers since September, state reports show. Much of the money came in donations of five figures or greater; most of it went to Republicans; and all of it was legal in a state with no contribution limits.

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1. it is very similary to what happened with Health Care Reform ...

is it the largest reserve of natural gas in the country, and they are coming regardless, but they did what the health care insurance industry did in DC ... Bought the republican party and key democrats like Max Baucus, put a big fight about it, but got the legislation they wanted all along ...

The industry will put up a fight, but there will be a tax, BUT, they have bought up the people who will set the terms, and the same clowns who will give them the best deal of any state outside of texas, they will complain about the states massive deficit while the natural gas industry will be smiling like butchers dogs ...