Environmental Defense, which co-sponsors this blog, may have a different opinion, but kudos to Florida Congressman Connie Mack for calling out Joe Kennedy’s big wet kiss to Venezuelan strong-man and America-hater Hugo Chavez.
Seems Kennedy was featured in TV ads this winter thanking Citgo, the state-owned (e.g. Chavez owned) oil company in Venezuela, for providing discounted heating oil to needy American families through Kennedy’s own Citizens Energy Corp. Now, I have no problem with the good people of Venezuela who are forced to live in an oppressive dictatorship, and of course I’m concerned about deserving US families’ ability to heat their homes in winter.
But Rep. Mack is right - no one should buy the warm and fuzzy feelings about Chavez that Kennedy is peddling in these ads.
The Politico lays out Rep. Mack’s case against Chavez:
“What irks the congressman is not only that Chavez is a firm friend of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a supporter of North Korea, a pal of Cuba’s Fidel Castro and a good customer for Russian-built arms, but also that Chavez is the sole supplier of oil to Kennedy’s company, Citizens Energy Corp.”¯
Would Joe Kennedy argue that the affordable-energy end justifies the means? Probably. But you disqualify yourself as any kind of serious voice on energy and the environment when you consort with the likes of Hugo Chavez.
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Trackposted to Outside the Beltway.
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April 16th, 2007 at 11:55 am
Cheap oil to poor people is some kind of “bad” idea ?? Yeah the poor could act a lot more patriotic if they just froze their butts off for a few months.