Anne Northup has a fancy new radio ad. It’s all about how she is the Jesus of lowering gas prices and how John Yarmuth is the devil of raping everyone dead because he hates gas, people who can’t afford gas and anyone who doesn’t eat arugula. Duh.
Listen for yourself:
Or read the transcript after the jump…
Transcript:
Some dude:
Some people decide how to vote when they walk in the polling booth. Maybe you should decide when you drive into the gas station.
With gas at more than 4 bucks a gallon, Anne Northup and John Yarmuth have different views.
The U.S. has more oil than Saudi Arabia but much of it is off-limits. Northup supports safe energy exploration off our coasts, in Alaska and in America’s vast oil shale reserves. Yarmuth opposes drilling where the largest reserves exist.
Northup supports a balance of developing alternative energy and opening domestic reserves to lower costs and increase energy independence. Yarmuth has voted no at least five times. And Yarmuth supports higher energy taxes. You know who will pay those taxes - you.
Northup and Yarmuth. Different positions. Which ones do you think will lead to lower gas prices?
Find out more at LowerGasLouisville.com.
Anne Northup:
I’m Anne Northup, candidate for congress, and I approved this message.
Some dude:
Paid for by Northup for Congress.
12 responses so far ↓
1 Terri // Jul 8, 2008 at 2:16 pm
God, this is getting embarrassing.
2 Ben // Jul 8, 2008 at 2:19 pm
Could be worse? She could have used the ad to go after SG and LeO again?
3 jake // Jul 8, 2008 at 2:20 pm
Like you said earlier, Ben, SNOWBALL.
4 Frank // Jul 8, 2008 at 2:50 pm
Jake,
I know you’re a Yarmuth! guy but I also consider you level headed. So - why is this embarrassing? It’s clearly political, but candidates win elections every year being just that, political. I have to assume both candidates - any candidate for that matter - will be forced to make oil/gas prices a central theme of their campaign in 08, so why not get out front. I don’t think John is responsible for the increases in price at the pump nor do I think Anne’s previous terms were. But why let it stop a candidate from capitalizing (if they can) on an opportunity. It’s politics baby - And you know as much.
5 jake // Jul 8, 2008 at 2:55 pm
I don’t believe I was poo-ing on her right to be political. In fact, I publicized her ad for free.
But I do feel people like Anne are partially responsible for the current state of affairs. I mean, she owns a zillion dollars in big oil stock. Can’t tell me that doesn’t sway her. (And before anyone brings up Bruce Lunsford– he’s never been in office and hasn’t had a ten-year record of voting in Washington)
It’s just funny that she thinks this is helping her. That’s all.
6 Sirico // Jul 8, 2008 at 3:44 pm
Poor old Anne, she still just doesn’t seem to understand what is going on in this country.
7 Joel // Jul 8, 2008 at 7:08 pm
You’d think the Northrup campaign could afford a fact-checker, but perhaps it makes sense why they wouldn’t bother.
That is, according to the ad, “The U.S. has more oil than Saudi Arabia but much of it is off-limits.”
However, about 30 seconds on Google and I found this, the January, 2007 “World Proved Reserves of Oil and Natural Gas, Most Recent Estimates” from the Energy Information Administration:
United States — 21.757 billion barrels
Saudi Arabia — 262.300 billion barrels
The Energy Information Administration is of course a division of the Department of Energy.
Whoops.
8 David // Jul 8, 2008 at 9:54 pm
Joel, maybe you should do your own research - the oil shale in three states alone is estimated to contain over a trillion barrels in recoverable oil:
http://money.cnn.com/2007/10/30/magazines/fortune/Oil_from_stone.fortune/index.htm
Also, “Northup” has one “r”, not two. “Northrup” makes airplanes.
9 Twace // Jul 8, 2008 at 10:27 pm
Anne, Liar, Liar pants on fire! Here we go again!
10 Steve Bittenbender // Jul 9, 2008 at 12:37 am
David,
Oil shale has not proven itself yet. It might be solution, but it could just as easily be too much of a hassle to do any good.
11 Joel // Jul 9, 2008 at 6:51 am
Exactly, Steve.
12 David // Jul 9, 2008 at 10:33 am
Steve,
You are right, oil shale is somewhat speculative (although the article I linked makes clear that Shell thinks it’s a good enough bet that they have sunk about a $ billion into it).
However, if you really are for energy independence, it is logically at least as sensible to bet on oil shale as it is to bet on other alternative technologies. The implication that Northup is making is that John has an ulterior motive here. He isn’t looking for energy independence, he’s looking for carbon independence.
Put another way, if somebody could wave a magic wand and make oil abundent and cheap, would Yarmuth be for that if nobody was watching? I don’t think he would be and neither does Northup.
Whether you agree with that position or not, that is not the song that John is singing in public. He’s running around saying he is concerned about gas prices being high, while at the same time doing nothing that could truly bring down the price. Like I said, he is not after energy independence, he’s after carbon independence. And he needs to come clean on that and see if the district is ok with that position. That is where Northup is going on this issue.
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