I stumbled across this story by McClatchy, who outperform the big media pretty consistently. Given the FEC's glacial pace, and general toothlessness, nothing much is likely to come of it, even should they investigate. But this seems like something that the Obama campaign may make note of for use in future efforts to debunk McCain's squeaky clean campaign finance reform image.
WASHINGTON — Alice Rocchio is an office manager at the New York headquarters of the Hess Corp., drives a 1993 Chevy Cavalier and lives in an apartment in Queens, N.Y., with her husband, Pasquale, an Amtrak foreman.
Despite what appears to be a middle-class lifestyle, the couple has written $61,600 in checks to John McCain's presidential campaign and the Republican National Committee, most of it within days of McCain's decision to endorse offshore oil drilling.
Hess, among the nation's five biggest oil companies, conducts deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico as well as off the coasts of Europe, Africa and Asia.
Alice Rocchio, reached at the office, confirmed that she registered her '93 Chevy in February, but said that she "absolutely'' used her own money to make the donations.
The Rocchios donated $4,600 to McCain's campaign in February and another $57,000 at the June fundraiser.
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