McCain goes after Texas oil, gas money as concern builds about Obama tax plans

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Presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain is heading to Texas this week to lasso campaign contributions out of the deepest pockets in oil and gas country. With his general election war chest lagging well behind Democrat Barack Obama's, McCain is slated to attend a private fundraiser at the Houston home of Fayez Sarofim on Tuesday night.rnSarofim, 79, an Egyptian-born investor worth an estimated $1.5 billion, sits onrnthe board of Kinder Morgan Inc., and last year joined the company's chief executive, Richard Kinder, and a fleet of senior managers and private equity investors to take the oil and natural gas pipeline giant private in a $22 billion deal.