Wilkins, D

<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Personnel">Personnel</span></h2>

<p>Continental Resources CEO <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Harold_Hamm" title="Harold Hamm">Harold Hamm</a> was acknowledged at a privately held Koch seminar in June 2011 in Vail, Colorado for donating at least $1 million to <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Koch" title="Koch">Koch</a>-related causes.<sup id="cite_ref-Mother_Jones_Exclusive_2-0" class="reference"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Continental_Resources#cite_note-Mother_Jones_Exclusive-2">[3]</a></sup>

The Wall Street Journal <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203753704577255082176790396.html?mod=googlenews_wsj">reported</a> that Hamm generated “almost all” of his $12 billion wealth in Continental from 2010-2012; he ranks at <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.forbes.com/profile/harold-hamm/">No. 36</a> on Forbes 2012 list of richest Americans.

In March 2012, the Romney campaign announced that Hamm would lead the candidate’s energy policy, joining a team that already includes coal lobbyist Jim Talent and tar-sands lobbyist David Wilkins.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Continental_Resources#cite_note-3">[4]</a></sup></p>