Tag: BP
An Open Letter to British Petroleum
I am sorry for your loss…your gasoline station at Sherman Blvd and Burleigh in Milwaukee is apparently a total loss. But here’s what you should do next: I don’t know if the station operator was a lessee or franchisee…but whoever gets the insurance money…take it and throw down a few…
Senator Ron Johnson votes to preserve government welfare to oil companies
On Tuesday Republican U.S. Senator Ron Johnson voted against a bill that would have stripped oil companies like BP and Exxon of their multi-billion dollar annual tax subsidies from the federal government. Johnson, who said throughout his Senate campaign in 2010 that he was serious about cutting government spending, apparently…
random thoughts and links…
1. Thanks to President Obama and the democratic congress we will now be able to feel safe when we eat. They recently passed the Food Safety Modernization Act. While the vote ended up unanimous in the Senate, the partisan hacks in the House voted almost on a party line. Luckily…
Where or where did those oil jobs NOT go?
Well guess what? So far those job losses haven’t materialized and even the federal government projections of “23,000 lost jobs and $10.2 billion in economic damage — is proving to be too pessimistic”.
Ron Johnson’s #1!
#1 on the Democratic Party’s list of “BP Republicans,” that is… When asked about BP, Ron Johnson — the GOP Senate candidate in Wisconsin — told Wisconsin Public Television that he was “disappointed that the uh, you know, the Obama administration is just, you know, kinda doing an all-out assault…
Ron Johnson’s BP flip-flop earns him some national attention
Saw this on Hardball with Chris Matthews last night: It’s good to see Ron Johnson’s blatant flip-flop on his ownership of BP stock is finally earning him some much-deserved national scrutiny.
How much was Ron Johnson’s BP stock worth when he was defending BP?
During his U.S. Senate campaign, Republican candidate Ron Johnson has spent a good deal of time defending BP, likely due in large part to the fact that he owns hundreds of thousands of dollars, and now thanks to the Democratic Party of Wisconsin you can track how much Ron Johnson’s…
Ron Johnson’s greatest BP hits
Watch for yourself: Something tells me it’s gonna be a long campaign for Ron Johnson.
Johnson defends BP…could it be because he owns their stock?
While Proud Progressive posted an excellent entry about Ron Johnson’s ownership of BP stock yesterday, I thought I’d add my own take on things, because this is certainly a development that’s worth exploring. At a candidate forum in Brookfield last month, both Republican U.S. Senate candidates – Dave Westlake and…
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