All other campaign funny-business aside <$NoAd$> (on both sides of the aisle), there’s been a pretty high bar in place on using congressional websites for explict political campaign uses and electioneering.
Along those lines, almost all the space on the House Committee on Resources website today is devoted to fronting these two grafs ….
Headline: “That black stuff is hurting us.”
Sen. John Kerry on oil (Greenwire)Washington, DC – Democrat presidential candidate John Kerry is quoted in todayâs edition of Greenwire as saying, âthat black stuff is hurting us,â with regard to oil. Members of the House Committee on Resources found the Senatorâs comment absurd.
âJohn Kerry is dead wrong,â Chairman Richard W. Pombo (R-CA) said. âOil doesnât hurt Americans; John Kerryâs anti-energy policies hurt Americans. In fact, this is exactly the kind of rhetoric and bad policy that has led to the outsourcing of good American energy jobs. Last year alone, the United States outsourced more than $100 billion worth of American jobs, economic growth, and national security to foreign countries for our energy needs. Americans are left with a supply and demand imbalance that creates higher prices at the pump and longer waits on the unemployment line.”
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This is a taxpayer-funded website — one for a House committee. This seems hands-down inappropriate, if not a breach of House rules.
The “read more” link is to this page, which contains straight-up GOP anti-Kerry bullet points. Perfectly legit as campaign material; but stuff that obviously has no place on this site.
