But it is OK for BO to accept campaign donations from foreigners (illegal) and tell us he didn't accept a penny from any lobbyist.

Remember BO got money as a Senator from F & F!

Of the $80BILLION from the 2009 stimulus that was for "green energy" companies, how many of those companies were connected to campaign donations.

1. Evergreen Solar ($24 million)*


2. SpectraWatt ($500,000)*


3. Solyndra ($535 million)*


4. Beacon Power ($69 million)*


5. AES’s subsidiary Eastern Energy ($17.1 million)


6. Nevada Geothermal ($98.5 million)


7. SunPower ($1.5 billion)


8. First Solar ($1.46 billion)


9. Babcock and Brown ($178 million)


10. EnerDel’s subsidiary Ener1 ($118.5 million)*


11. Amonix ($5.9 million)


12. National Renewable Energy Lab ($200 million)


13. Fisker Automotive ($528 million)


14. Abound Solar ($374 million)*


15. A123 Systems ($279 million)*


16. Willard and Kelsey Solar Group ($6 million)


17. Johnson Controls ($299 million)


18. Schneider Electric ($86 million)


19. Brightsource ($1.6 billion)


20. ECOtality ($126.2 million)


21. Raser Technologies ($33 million)*


22. Energy Conversion Devices ($13.3 million)*


23. Mountain Plaza, Inc. ($2 million)*


24. Olsen’s Crop Service and Olsen’s Mills Acquisition Company ($10 million)*


25. Range Fuels ($80 million)*


26. Thompson River Power ($6.4 million)*


27. Stirling Energy Systems ($7 million)*


28. LSP Energy ($2.1 billion)*


29. UniSolar ($100 million)*


30. Azure Dynamics ($120 million)*


31. GreenVolts ($500,000)


32. Vestas ($50 million)


33. LG Chem’s subsidiary Compact Power ($150 million)


34. Nordic Windpower ($16 million)*


35. Navistar ($10 million)


36. Satcon ($3 million)*

The total? More than $10 billion.

The Washington Times found a series of emails from solar power giant BrightSource

Energy Inc. showing how the company “applied political pressure and used behind-

the-scenes cajoling to win a $1.6 billion loan guarantee.”