Ever since John McCain made a call to expand offshore drilling, oil and gas companies have poured money into his campaign. Over the past two months, the Arizona senator has received at least $1.2 million in contributions in Texas alone from oil- and gas-related donors. That is nearly more money than McCain raised from the oil and gas sectors over the past two decades. The website Talking Points Memo reports that ten senior executives of the oil company Hess and members of the Hess family each gave over $28,000 to the joint RNC-McCain fundraising committee, just days after McCain reversed himself in favor of offshore drilling.