Posted on 02/13/2007 11:16:00 AM PST by prairiebreeze
WASHINGTON - A Florida congressman ripped into former Rep. Joe Kennedy for airing television commercials promoting his Citizens Energy Corp. that heap praise on Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, "a sworn enemy of the United States."
In the ad, Kennedy, founder and president of Citizens Energy Corp., a nonprofit energy company, lauds Venezuela and Citgo, a Houston-based oil company owned by the Chavez government, for contributing heating oil to low income senior citizens.
"I am Joe Kennedy. Help is on the way. Heating oil at 40 percent off from our friends in Venezuela at Citgo," Kennedy says in the commercial.
In a letter dated Monday, Rep. Connie Mack wrote to Kennedy: "Venezuela's Communist President Hugo Chavez is a sworn enemy of the United States. That is why there is absolutely no excuse for you to be praising him in television commercials and media interviews for any reason whatsoever."
Mack's letter continues: "While you have gone out of your way to publicly praise Hugo Chavez, he's gone out of his way to crush the hopes and dreams of the Venezuelan people and to destabilize freedom, democracy, and the United States interests throughout the Western Hemisphere."
Mack said the partnership is not providing discount oil, but allowing Chavez a venue to "exploit his apologists in the name of public relations. Sadly, you have chosen to actively participate in his charade, even as he continues to attack the United States, our leaders, and freedom-loving people everywhere."
(Excerpt) Read more at mack.house.gov ...
Joe Kennedy is a creep for multiple reasons. Get this:
Excerpt from "Shattered Faith: A Woman's Struggle to Stop the Catholic Church from Annulling Her Marriage," dust jacket: "In 1993 Sheila Rauch Kennedy received a letter from the Boston Catholic Archdiocese announcing that her former husband, Congressman Joseph Kennedy, was seeking an annulment of their marriage. If the Church granted the annulment the marriage, which had lasted twelve years, would be rendered nonexistent -- not simply ended, as was stated in the divorce decree, but invalid from the start. And their two sons would be regarded as children of an unsanctified union. Joe Kennedy needed the annulment to remarry within the Church, and he encouraged his wife to ignore the details. But stunned by the hypocrisy of the process and the betrayal of trust it involved, Kennedy was determined to defend the legitimacy of her former marriage."
Mack's letter continues: "While you have gone out of your way to publicly praise Hugo Chavez, he's gone out of his way to crush the hopes and dreams of the Venezuelan people and to destabilize freedom, democracy, and the United States interests throughout the Western Hemisphere."
Mack said the partnership is not providing discount oil, but allowing Chavez a venue to "exploit his apologists in the name of public relations. Sadly, you have chosen to actively participate in his charade, even as he continues to attack the United States, our leaders, and freedom-loving people everywhere."
Debauchery, thou name art Kennedy.
Pub with a spine ping.
I saw this just ahead of your ping! I can't get over that Kennedy actually made a commerical calling Chavez our friend. With friends like those...
Connie is a credit to his sex. The rest are DC-infected weenies.
Finally someone is calling Joe on his treason.
Bump.
Sewer Trout, thy name is Kennedy.
Carrying on the Kennedy tradition I see. I'll bet Big Head Ted is mighty proud
Joe Kennedy Fires Back Letter to Florida Rep. Connie Mack Over Chavez Oil TV Ad
"If your moral indignation requires that we not accept the discount oil to distribute to our most vulnerable families, then that same high moral standard should require that you not drive your car because it, too, probably uses gasoline made from Venezuelan oil," Kennedy wrote in a letter sent to Rep. Connie Mack, R-Fla.
"Maybe the fact that you live in Florida diminishes your concern for those who have to forgo food or medicine to pay for heat or turn to dangerous heating sources to stay warm, risking their lives to brave the cold," Kennedy wrote. "If so, maybe you could advocate that they move to your district to alleviate the need to figure out ways to protect them."
LOL! Pretty snotty position from somebody who allegedly told a Hyannis mother he left paralyzed for life in a car crash 32 years ago that he is ``broke'' and won't be her financial crutch any longer
How broke can he be when he pays himself nearly $400,000 a year from the "non-profit" Citizens Energy Corp. coffers (actually, a direct subsidy from Hugo Chavez to Kennedy)?
He's a Kennedy...what would anyone expect?
He is a KENNEDY.
You are much too kind with your description of Joe Kennedy!
Joseph Kennedy, Sr. and the Joe Kennedy II were, undoubtedly, cut from the same bolt of cloth.
Not if you don't fuel up at any Citgo stations.
Personally, I avoid them at all costs, so my car doesn't run on Venezuelan oil.
Joe Kennedy=Idiot
I've seen the ad....Kennedy is a traitor.
Wonder what Joe has to say about the Haiti scandal?
I've got a question for Kennedy: What the HECK are we funding LIHEAP for?!
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