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Republican Rep. Connie Mack Blasts Joe Kennedy for Chavez Oil TV Ad
FoxNews / Rep. Mack website ^ | February 12, 2007 | unattributed

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 ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: chavez; chavezsuckup; communist; conniemack; hugoping; joekennedy; kennedysuckup; thug; venezuela
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To: prairiebreeze

Go Connie go!


21 posted on 02/13/2007 12:39:28 PM PST by lilylangtree (Veni, Vidi, Vici)
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To: mewzilla

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.


22 posted on 02/13/2007 12:41:44 PM PST by ClaireSolt (Have you have gotten mixed up in a mish-masher?)
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To: pinz-n-needlez; onyx; ohioWfan; Texasforever; BigSkyFreeper; Tamzee; mrs tiggywinkle; Dog; ...
You Tell'em Connie!
23 posted on 02/13/2007 12:57:43 PM PST by Mo1 ( http://www.gohunter08.com)
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To: Mo1


BUMP!

I saw that disgusting ad on youtube.


24 posted on 02/13/2007 1:00:41 PM PST by onyx (DEFEAT Hillary Clinton, Marxist, student of Saul Alinsky & ally and beneficiary of Soros.)
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To: prairiebreeze

He should condemm Kenedy's involvement with the Angolan Commies also.


25 posted on 02/13/2007 1:02:18 PM PST by common denominator
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To: prairiebreeze
"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.

What part of Commie Dictator who suppresses the people of Venezuela, does Kennedy not understand?

26 posted on 02/13/2007 1:03:59 PM PST by Mo1 ( http://www.gohunter08.com)
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To: Mo1

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.


27 posted on 02/13/2007 1:11:53 PM PST by Txsleuth
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To: Txsleuth; Peach
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.

Bwaaahaaaaaa!! Oh, that's rich. It just keeps getting better, ping.

28 posted on 02/13/2007 1:23:30 PM PST by prairiebreeze (I am PRO-VICTORY!!)
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To: Mo1

As a Kennedy, Joe wuuuuuuuuvs any commie dictator. Soul mates, you know.


29 posted on 02/13/2007 1:24:12 PM PST by prairiebreeze (I am PRO-VICTORY!!)
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To: peteram

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.


30 posted on 02/13/2007 1:26:14 PM PST by prairiebreeze (I am PRO-VICTORY!!)
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To: prairiebreeze

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.


31 posted on 02/13/2007 1:26:42 PM PST by Txsleuth
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To: Txsleuth
it says that Chavez WILL bill these people for the "real" amount of the oil in like 10 years...with interest

Bet those people don't know that

32 posted on 02/13/2007 1:27:14 PM PST by Mo1 ( http://www.gohunter08.com)
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To: Mo1; onyx
Kennedy's letter to Mack is a whopper too. No matter how hard he tries, he's a hypocrite, and a traitor to this country and a Socialist just like Joseph P.
33 posted on 02/13/2007 1:29:50 PM PST by BigSkyFreeper (There is no alternative to the GOP except varying degrees of insanity)
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To: Txsleuth
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.

Of course. We're all going to pay for Kennedy's project, just like that other Kennedy project in Boston dubbed "The Big Dig".

34 posted on 02/13/2007 1:33:29 PM PST by BigSkyFreeper (There is no alternative to the GOP except varying degrees of insanity)
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To: 3AngelaD

Sheila Rauch Kennedy is no defender of Catholic marriage. She was honored by Call to Action because of her opposition to annulments.


35 posted on 02/13/2007 1:35:25 PM PST by Revenge of Sith
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To: BigSkyFreeper

Yeppers....I do believe there are a lot of MASS. voters that are regretting that project...


40 posted on 02/13/2007 1:37:50 PM PST by Txsleuth
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