Chevron U.S.A. Inc. Honors Darrell Issa
The nonprofit Sunlight Foundation is out with some interesting new information about a relatively little-known but popular practice: big corporations and unions giving large sums of money to charitable activities favored by congressmembers, senators, and other high-ranking federal officials. One local example, according to Sunlight’s database: in April 2009, North County GOP congressman Darrell Issa was honored by Chevron U.S.A. Inc. in the amount of $33,333 in support of the Arab American National Museum (Issa is Lebanese-American). The same year, Fluor Corporation, which does a lot of business in the Middle East, gave the American Studies Center $625 in Issa’s honor.
Matt Potter
San Diego Reader