Sinema received $155,252 from Big Oil this year alone
Phoenix is breaking records for its extreme heat, and at least a dozen heat-related deaths have been confirmed in Maricopa County this year (with several dozen more deaths under investigation). Yet Sinema’s Q2 fundraising report shows Sinema continues to rake in cash from Big Oil. Sinema brought in another $40,000 from Big Oil last quarter, including from Exxon, Chevron, and Phillips 66. That brings her total Big Oil money to almost $800,000 over her career.
Sinema’s latest Big Oil donations include:
- $8,300 Chevron PAC and executives
- $5,000 Phillips 66 PAC
- $2,500 ExxonMobil PAC
- Several pipeline and drilling companies
“No American city is suffering more from climate change than Phoenix, but Sinema has continued to take money from Big Oil and other major climate polluters, while working to weaken legislation that would address the crisis,” said Sacha Haworth, Replace Sinema spokesperson. “Given Sinema’s record of taking campaign cash for political favors, we have to ask: what has Sinema promised Big Oil?”
The triple-digit temperatures have already become deadly, with 12 confirmed heat-related deaths recorded in Maricopa County so far this year, and 55 under investigation as suspected heat-related deaths.
There could be a reason Sinema is so beloved by Big Oil. Sinema killed hundreds of billions of additional climate funding requested by President Biden. Sinema (along with Joe Manchin) was responsible for shrinking the President’s climate budget by $213 billion from the beginning to the end of the legislative process.
Sinema frequently takes positions that encourage the use of fossil fuels like oil, gas, and coal. In March of 2023, she was one of only four Democrats to vote to expose 95% of Arizona’s waterways to more pollution, and Sinema has received over $350,000 from industry interests that pollute the land, water, and air. A former Sinema aide now lobbies for energy interests, and her firm has donated tens of thousands to Sinema’s reelection campaign.
Here are additional takeaways from Sinema’s 2023 Q2 filing, as compiled by the Replace Sinema PAC research team:
- Of the $1,650,611 Sinema brought in, only $8,559 was from small-dollar donors
- Energy Industry – $73,200
- Oil industry – $39,400
- Airline industry – $102,150
- Finance industry – $730,285
- Private Equity – $168,325
- Venture Capital – $98,400
- $23,100 from Blackstone employees
- $5,000 from Carlyle Group
- Telecom industry – $108,950
- Lobbyists and lobbying – $143,900
- $5,000 from CoreCivic PAC, supports for-profit prison industry
- From Corporate PACs: (at least) $250,300
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