I am a bit disappointing in the lack of interest this story attracted* given all the jokes at our disposal. I’m referring to the news of Senator Jeanne Shaheen’s off-shore investment in the fourth largest oil company in the world, S.A. Total ( Chevron, Inpex–a Japanese firm–and Weather-ford International.) After the initial burst of news and press releases I’ve seen nothing. How do you not keep bring this up over and over again all the way to November?
It is a story that writes its own press releases almost endlessly, complete with the mounds of hypocrisy that should go with it.
1) S.A. Total and Chevron are two of the largest oil companies on the planet. Talk about big oil!
2) Shaheen is no stranger to bashing ties to big oil and yet she is invested in Big oil.
3) Tom Steyer and his green machine are spending a fortune on ads (internet, TV, etc) talking about Big Oil and Scott Brown while his opponent is, well you get the idea.
4) Offshoring investment capital is another left-wing, anti-capitalist axe to grind but when one-percenter Jeanne Shaheen invests in Big Oil, she invests offshore, Hello!
5) Out of state influence is another issue; Steyer is a California Billionaire spending millions on his ads (see #3), who made money on thermal coal–maybe Shaheens Big Oil investments are what really attracted him to her?
6) The Big BIG oil French company (#12 globally)Shaheen is invested with is corrupt. It bribes terror states like Iran for special access–Iran runs the third biggest Oil companies on the planet (Bigger than Exxon-Mobile)–nice ties to have when you are moving oil around for your investors. (Chevron is the 9th Largest if you are keeping score.)
7) Every-time Shaheen even breathes a word related to climate change or her opponents “ties” to energy someone should ask her how in her offshore Investments in Big Oil are doing.
8) Not one New Hampshire Democrat has made a peep about the hypocrisy, which just makes them bigger hypocrites when continue to chatter about Republicans
I think that’s a good start. I’d like to hear about this a few times a week, all the way to November. And to keep things from getting to repetitive, feel free to alternate stories about how Jeanne Shaheen voted to repeal the first amendment so she could have more control over political speech she does not approve of.
P.S – Those Out-of-state California Billionaire PAC funded Steyer ads are still a stick in the eye of Democrat Governor Maggie Hassan. I’m not hearing anyone making use of that “opportunity” either.
*Note: S.A. Total is not the #4 largest in the world as noted at the link, it is ranked 12th largest as of 2013. They may have improved in 2014, but we’ll go with #12 until we hear otherwise.
