Thursday, July 1, 2010
Politics McWherter Calls Haslam 'Oil Sheik'
Posted by Jeff Woods on Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 10:32 AM
“This is a major addition to a growing list of concerns over Bill Haslam’s oil interests. The Haslam family has been charged on numerous occasions here in Tennessee and across America with illegal price gouging, forcing working families and businesses to pay artificially inflated prices for fuel. And now we find that Bill Haslam’s company was the target of an FTC anti-trust complaint. It’s no wonder Bill Haslam refuses to disclose his financial information, he is afraid average Tennesseans might see him as an oil sheik rather than the common-man character he has spent millions trying to create in his television ads."
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Wamp did say we didn't want to elect a "wanna-be sissy" while sitting next to Little Billy Haslam, but he's too dumb to look for real facts to use against his opponents. The Republicans used to be so much more creative (and smarter), but now they are all fed the same daily pablum of empty talking points and their brains have shrunk to the size of peas just like the dinosaurs. Could a comet be on their horizon? One can only hope.
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Name calling, little Mike sure doesn't live in a glass house. I'd hate to go there.
Save the name calling, McWherter makes a valid political attack primarily because of Haslam's failure to disclose. We all know Bill's really, really rich, but it seems he would have put a number out there by now so folks that have issues with the oil industry money can either get past it or use it now rather than closer to the election.
Thanks Scene and your wealth of reliable information. McWherter's concern about the merger is is not about "higher prices at the pump" (as you put it), but for mom and pop gas stations having to compete with a large conglomerate. The merger might actually result in lower prices as the larger corporation tries to shut out mom and pop competition.
The McWherters make their money selling beer. As we all know, the active ingredient in beer (alcohol) leads to stupidity, drunk driving, alcoholism, and broken homes and marriages. Let's all call the McWhethers "drug pushers"
If Haslman is the "oil sheik", I guess that makes McWherter the "beer baron".
He wants to run the same state government that has enacted protectinist legislation that benefits his business and ensured that the price of all alcaholic drinks are higher than they otherwise would have been if full interstate competion were allowed - at the expense of the consumer of course.
Old Pumpkinhead Jr has no room to be talking about Haslam or anyone else gouging the consumer. He is as guilty of it as anyone else.
