Reply #64: New Ads target GOPpiggies who Hate Americans and Love Big Oil [View All]

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http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=63412

The inaugural ad campaign will target Representatives Chris Chocola (IN-2), Thelma Drake (VA-2), Nancy Johnson (CT-5) and Deborah Pryce (OH-15) for taking money from oil and energy companies and then supporting laws that give away billions to these companies while ordinary Americans pay more at the pump.

These Representatives voted in favor of the oil industry and against a measure that would have provided the U.S. Department of Justice authority to prosecute oil companies engaged in price gouging. The measure would have imposed fines of up to $100 million on those companies found guilty.

"Representative Drake and the others keep voting with their big-oil contributors, while we pay more at the pump. Why is Drake supporting President Bush's policies that help the oil industry but hurt the people of Virginia?" asked Guy Sturino, a MoveOn community leader and retired high school teacher from Virginia Beach.

The ads exclusively funded through small donations made by almost 13,000 MoveOn members, to run on local TV stations at saturation levels for 10 days in April. Similar ads will follow in the months ahead to the tune of $1.3 million.

"We're making sure everyone in these districts is aware of their Members' ties to big oil companies. These ads-which will run at saturation in four congressional districts for virtually everyone in those districts to see-will help us get the word out," said Jennifer Lindenauer, Communications Director of MoveOn.org Political Action. "We need real leaders in the House of Representatives who will represent their constituents, not Exxon/Mobil, BP, Shell and Texaco."