McClendon, Chesapeake Give $600,000

Chesapeake Energy Chief Executive Officer Aubrey McClendon, a political action committee associated with Chesapeake and Chesapeake employees have given almost $600,000 to candidates seeking state office in 2008, according to a review of state Ethics Commission reports filed through the Oct. 20 deadline, the Tulsa World reports today.

McClendon leads all individual contributors in the state with $133,500, and other Chesapeake employees have given $127,196. Energy for Oklahomans, a PAC tied to Chesapeake, totaled $327,000 in contributions, by far the most of any state PAC.

Read the entire analysis of finance reports at http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectID=12&articleID=20081031_16_A1_hAlmos57706.

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