Labor & Employment Law

Boehner and Republicans: ?Stop Picking on BP?

By Mike Hall

It?s no secret that House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) and his colleagues are tight with their corporate chums. They even defend poor little old BP from the meanies working to hold the petroleum giant accountable for the Gulf oil spill.

One of Boehner?s trusted lieutenants, Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas), even went so far as to claim the Obama administration?s efforts to persuade BP to establish a $20 billion recovery fund for Gulf Coast residents was a ?shakedown.? How dare they pick on BP like that?

To remind voters in Boehner?s home district of his loving relationship with BP and Big Oil, our friends at ActBlue have erected a second billboard, with our help and that of People For the American Way, that notes the golf-loving Boehner?s affection for BP is ?Par for the Course.? Click here for more on Boehner and his golf jones.

Be sure to visit BeatBoehner.com, and click here to find out more about Justin Coussoule who is running with labor?s support to unseat Boehner in Ohio?s 8th Congressional District. He is a West Point graduate, a former Army captain, a lawyer and a small business owner.

Boehner’s so-called job creation strategy is to return to the Bush policies of tax cuts for the wealthy and Big Business and free rein on Wall Street. Tuesday in St. Louis, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka summed up Boehner?s jobs program.

His idea of job creation is to hire a second caddy.

Full post as published by AFL-CIO NOW BLOG on September 02, 2010 (boomark / email).