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 ...
Go Connie go!
Exactly. Cavuto is on this and Kennedy is to be on today. Chavez donated about 4 million and we do 9 billion LIHEAP. LIHEAP is a subsidy to Kennedys and their oil co, anyway. Investigate it.
BUMP!
I saw that disgusting ad on youtube.
He should condemm Kenedy's involvement with the Angolan Commies also.
What part of Commie Dictator who suppresses the people of Venezuela, does Kennedy not understand?
I read something about this Chavez deal a long time ago...and in the itsy bitsy teeny weenie print at the bottom of the "deal"...it says that Chavez WILL bill these people for the "real" amount of the oil in like 10 years...with interest.
I am sure this is the same type deal I read about.
Bwaaahaaaaaa!! Oh, that's rich. It just keeps getting better, ping.
As a Kennedy, Joe wuuuuuuuuvs any commie dictator. Soul mates, you know.
Wellll...maybe. Certainly avoiding Citgo ensures that your $$ doesn't directly go to Chavez's pockets. I do the same thing BTW.
But who knows what amount of Venezulean gas is mixed into Conoco, Shell, etc...?
But, we do the best we can in not funding this S. American dictator, I agree.
I sure hope no one asks me to find where I read that...I think it was last winter...because Chavez was talking about it then, also.
I would never find it...but, I have never forgotten it either.
Bet those people don't know that
Of course. We're all going to pay for Kennedy's project, just like that other Kennedy project in Boston dubbed "The Big Dig".
Sheila Rauch Kennedy is no defender of Catholic marriage. She was honored by Call to Action because of her opposition to annulments.
Yeppers....I do believe there are a lot of MASS. voters that are regretting that project...
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