Posted on 07/01/2009 8:01:36 PM PDT by smoothsailing
Murtha Snubs District With Cap & Trade Vote
by Bill Smith-Wednesday, July 1, 2009
District Residents Could See $2K Jump In Utility Rates
(JOHNSTOWN, PA) – Ignoring the importance of the coal industry in the 12th Congressional district, incumbent Rep. John Murtha (D) voted with his Democrat party leadership in supporting the Obama Energy Bill in the late night hours Friday. The bill, also called “Cap and Trade,” would heavily tax energy derived from fossil fuels such as coal and oil.
“Our local residents could see as much as a fifty percent increase in their home utility costs,” said William Russell, Republican candidate in the 12th district. “This bill is nothing more than a way for this government to take even more money from its hard-working citizens. Residents in this district are already having trouble paying their home heating and electricity bills, how can they afford to pay up to fifty percent more?
Russell also pointed out that Rep. Murtha also thumbed his nose at the district’s coal industry by supporting the bill. “Pennsylvania and the 12th district sit on some of the largest coal and gas deposits in the country,” said Russell. “Passage of this bill could virtually shut down the coal industry. We should be encouraging the development and use of clean coal technology. This is just another example of how Mr. Murtha puts the support of his party ahead of the needs of his district.”
Russell also noted that West Virginia’s three representatives voted against the cap and trade bill. “Voters in the 12th district have to ask themselves one simple question,” said Russell. “Why on earth would Mr. Murtha support this bill? There is only one answer, to pay back his boss, Nancy Pelosi.”
The morons voted for him. Maybe he was right in his low opinion of the people in his district?
I don’t care if he sucks every penny out of his district. They voted him in and now have to live with his treachery and greed.
Perhaps there are just more non-coal-related liberals than coal-related ones in his district.
Exactly what I was thinking.
And they’ll vote for him again, and again. You see, he “brings home the bacon.”
Sushi Bacon?
What are they going to cook it with?
Isn’t that what the people in his district wanted?
No disrespect intended, but by the same token, do you care if Obama "sucks every penny out of the" country, after all, "they voted him in and now have to live with his treachery...".
He got 58% of the vote in the last election. 42% voted for his opponent, Bill Russell. And you’re right, Murtha got the moron vote. Of course, so did Obama.
Happy to see Bill Russell calling Murtha on his vote.
For him to vote for Cap and Trade over the people in his district is pathetic.
58% voted for Murtha. 42% voted for Bill Russell. So it depends on what people you're talking about.
BTW, Bill Russell put this up on his website, that's where Veterans for Bill Russell got it from.
Screw his district and sorry for the conservatives who live there. Sending this sadsack bag of wind back to DC for over thrity years is a travesty. Low rung on the totem pole are his supportive constituents!
Is anybody monitoring ACORN in this district? I think any investment made in that respect would be worthwhile.
Great analogy of the Rats and the stimulus and it looks like the ass has just begun.
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45 posted on Wednesday, July 01, 2009 12:41:31 PM by Jim Robinson (Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/jimrobfr)
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