Cheney: Cranley's take

John Cranley is planning a press conference today on Vice President Dick Cheney's visit:

From the press release:


Today, The Cincinnati Enquirer reports that Dick Cheney is coming to town to help fill-up Steve Chabot’s campaign coffers for a high-dollar fundraiser – a day after the one year anniversary of Bush signing the Special-Interest Energy Bill into law. (“Cheney to stump for Rep. Chabot,” The Cincinnati Enquirer, 8/09/06)



Meeting behind closed doors for over four years with oil lobbyists, The Dick Cheney Energy Task Force crafted an energy bill that gave over $14.5 Billion in tax breaks and subsidies to oil and gas companies who have been making record profits since. Backing Cheney every step of the way, Chabot voted for every version of the taxpayer giveaway bill and even helped negotiate the bill’s passage through Congress for Bush to sign it into law. (“Energy Bill highlights influence of Texans,” The Boston Globe, 8/04/05; HR 4, Vote #320, 8/1/01; HR 6, Vote #145, 8/11/03; HR 6, Vote #132, 4/21/05; HR 6, Vote #445, 7/28/05)“Chabot should come clean and admit that giving billions of taxpayer money to rich oil companies is wrong,” said Cranley. “At this time of record high gas prices, it is a slap in the face of the people of the 1st district for Steve Chabot to bring in Dick Cheney to fill-up his campaign coffers.”

WASHINGTON CHANGED STEVE CHABOT – PROOF:
In Steve Chabot’s 1st congressional term, The Cincinnati Enquirer reported that Steve Chabot called tax breaks for big oil companies “corporate welfare that the government can’t afford.” Chabot even bucked his party and voted against a provision “that would give big oil companies a tax break for deep water wells drilled in the Gulf of Mexico.”With oil men in the White House, Chabot has voted for every Bush-Cheney Energy Bill – each giving Billions in “corporate welfare.” (“Chabot proud to be a ‘radical freshman’”, The Cincinnati Enquirer, 12/27/95;) ####
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