<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/25b58256-7fd2-4f25-995b-eba1110fe7fa/A9786D28-2910-4E0A-8020-4F7AD1392E1A/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.upi.com/Energy/Analysis/2007/05/07/analysis_giuliani_mum_on_energy_policy/" href="http://www.upi.com/Energy/Analysis/2007/05/07/analysis_giuliani_mum_on_energy_policy/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.upi.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.upi.com/Energy/Analysis/2007/05/07/analysis_giuliani_mum_on_energy_policy/"> Oil and gas companies have a favorite candidate among the large field of contenders to become the next president</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.upi.com/Energy/Analysis/2007/05/07/analysis_giuliani_mum_on_energy_policy/"> Former New York City Mayor <A class="iAs" classname="iAs" href="#" target="_blank" itxtdid="3593404">Rudy Giuliani</A> is the leading recipient of campaign donations from the oil and gas industry.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.upi.com/Energy/Analysis/2007/05/07/analysis_giuliani_mum_on_energy_policy/"> Giuliani forged his ties to the energy industry after leaving New York's City Hall in 2001. The Houston law firm Bracewell & Patterson was renamed Bracewell & Giuliani after the former mayor became a partner in 2005. The firm's clients include oil refiners, power producers and other energy companies in Texas and near the Gulf Coast,</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.upi.com/Energy/Analysis/2007/05/07/analysis_giuliani_mum_on_energy_policy/">Valero Energy, the largest refiner in North America, has been a client of Bracewell & Giuliani and gave more than $14,000 to Giuliani's campaign.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.upi.com/Energy/Analysis/2007/05/07/analysis_giuliani_mum_on_energy_policy/">other industries give more generously to his campaign. Investors gave Giuliani more than $1.6 million, and lawyers sent another $1 million to the former mayor.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/A9786D28-2910-4E0A-8020-4F7AD1392E1A/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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