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 ...
Ted Kennedy put that project under the federal budget. I've regretted it ever since I found out.
The Kennedy's are all scum.
No need for a link sleuth, I trust you and your memory.
Thanks, I am terrible about finding old articles that I have read.
BUMP!
Question: Do the Kennedy's have a vested interest in the oil company?
That is the 64,000 dollar question.
Yes, the Kennedy's own oil companiaes. The oil companies have drilled for oil in 4 American states.
The names are: Artic Oil,Kenoil Oil, and Mokeen Oil Company.
The family made millions when the oil companies struck a large deposit in the McAllen Field in Hidalgo County, TX and another large well found in Louisiana.
Ted Kennedy wrote legislation which gave tax breaks to small oil companies which includes his family's oil companies.
What's more, the family has figured out a way to largely avoid paying corporate taxes on their oil profits altogether. In 1985 the family came up with the ingenious idea: Convert their corporate oil holdings to a so-called "royalty trust". So now they don't even pay income taxes on the income from the oil companies. Nifty, huh?
Source: Book Do As I Say
Oh my gosh!!! Why aren't Republicans making commercials out of this information? And holding press conferences?
And they should add this information as well:
The Kennedy family owns 3 oil companies and Teddy-boy wrote legislation favorable to small companies so his company got huge tax breaks. Then the family put the companies into royalty trusts and they don't even pay income taxes on the income from the oil companies.
Probably afraid the press would twist it against them. Although that excuse wears thin awfully quickly.
Intersting stuff on the Kennedy oil fields. Especially Hidalgo Co.
I thought the oil industry was big and bad and horrible as far as libs are concerned. I guess Kennedy oil is good and kind and wonderfully different than anybody else's oil. Yeah, that must be it...
So her husband isn't a creep after all?
I think he's a creep too, but I'm just pointing out that his ex-wife is no defender of the marriage bond either. BTW she also said in interviews that she still voted for Joe. This web site lists her as a dissenter.
http://www.ourladyswarriors.org/
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