Jun 16 2008
Kissell Trades Gas for Votes
Democratic Congressional candidate Larry Kissell pumped up his campaign Sunday by selling gas for $1.22 a gallon, highlighting the energy votes of Republican incumbent Rep. Robin Hayes.
Kissell spent almost three hours selling the cheap gas to a few hundred motorists in downtown Biscoe. He used a similar campaign tactic in his narrow loss to Hayes two years ago.
“The people were very appreciative, very patient and appeared very quickly,” Kissell said.
Kissell gets credit for thinking outside the box and being creative. However, I still see this as vote buying and any voter who would throw their support to any candidate based on that candidate giving them discounted gasoline is a bonehead. Kissell’s party has been mostly responsible for the high prices of gasoline in this country by their refusal to allow more domestic drilling and their catering to extremists environmentalist groups which has caused higher energy prices.
There is no one solution to energy costs. There are several. Alternative fuels are part of the solution as is nuclear power, but so is increasing today’s current supply of oil. Unless Kissell is prepared to support these solutions, his recent campaign stunt is nothing more than hypocritical.
Are you sure he’s trading gas for votes? I mean gas was $1.22 per gallon when Robin Hayes first changed his party registeration from Democrat to Bush and started voting with him and Cheney 95% of the time.
Are YOU better off than you were in 1999?
Someone certainly traded something for votes way back in the early 90’s but it aint the guy that works for a living. Your boy owns as much as $15 million in Exxon not to mention others funding the War on US.
When you REALLY want to talk about “trading votes” for money, look who really benefited beyond the folks who got one more week of gas to try and find a job in the Distrist Hayes forgot over his silver spoon portfolio.
Thanks for posting what a complete piece of waste Robin Hayes truly is. He trades votes IN CONGRESS against his District for CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS as the Charlotte Obvserver has said repeatedly.
“I am flat out completely opposed to CAFTA… unless offshore Multi-Nats that helped unemploy 60,000 of my consituents give me a million dollars to help keep voting with BUSH.”
Research. Learn. Feel special no more.
I’m a Republican with Libertarian leanings (if they only allowed that in NC), and Robin Hayes is one of the BEST Multi-Millionaires that never had a job in his 60 some year old life that buys me a plate of BBQ once a year and truly “gets me.”
He took the bravest hit of his pathetic life for us (or Bush), the one that made all his peers in Congress call him the “MOST SPINELESS MEMBER” by going all OVER the TV and saying he wouldn’t vote for CAFTA (not to mention Bush Fast Track) then caving while balling like a big, fat baby in front of the other 434 Members and TV. I. Am. So. Proud.
God, I love me some Robin Hayes. FUCK ME AND THE 8TH DISTRICT! Hayes does what President Bush says since his Momma died. And always will. I like consistency, and I like me someone that was born rich in the poorest District outside New Orleans and NEVER HAD A JOB!
Hayes “gets me” and all the multi-millionaires born rich with a gazillion Exxon shares. Hes looking out for ME! I go to Exxon. Duh.
One more. Let me get this straight.
Unless someone who works for a living is prepared to sell the outerbanks of our tourism dependent North Carolina to Exxon, (as opposed to his opponent that owns a hugs chunk of Exxon), then he is ‘hypocritcal.’
Is that right?
Let me try and wrap this up in one sentence even Dead Enders can understand.
The answer to a crack addiction is not more and cheaper crack.
Gosh:
You’re a jackass…
If you’re a “libertarian” then you’re the strangest one I’ve ever seen.
Hayes is a retard but the alternative is even worse. That being 8 dollar a gallon gas and record unemployment. Jimmy Carter version 2.0…
But like I said, you’re still a jackass…
Aaron,
Of course I’m a jackass.
I’m one pissed off Republican and the party has left me behind.
And Hayes is NOT a retard. He knows exactly what he’s been doing for the past 10 years?
Do you?
How is Thomas Hill, Libertarian, Jimmy Carter 2.0…?
And by the way, GAS WAS WAY CHEAPER UNDER CARTER THAN BUSH.
There’s dumbasses, evil, and then there’s the Libertarian Party.
Jackasses welcome.
So explain to me how a Minarchist decries the price of gas as having anything to do with the oil companies.
If this is some vast conspiracy then I’ll need to get out my tinfoil hat. I see expansion in “third world countries.” I see an increased demand in oil poor countries. I see a government who’s more concerned with what the horizon 10 miles off their beaches will look like than what their electorate can afford.
I see the same old have your cake and eat it too double standard I’ve always seen.
So explain to me what else we’re supposed to do. And spare me the alternative energy nonsense. If it’ll take 2 years to get any new oil then the new, fancy, pipe dream gasoline is at least 5 years away. I’m supposed to spend 14 dollars a day to commute to and from work while we figure out what’s next?
If the SUN funded the Bush-Cheney-Hayes decade of neglect I’d agree with you. It didn’t. Exxon did.
Or if we didn’t see this coming 40 years ago, ditto. We did. So wrong again.
And so did speculators Bush, Cheney and Hayes. Duh. They aren’t retards. They played you.
The asshats that made this mess do NOT have the solution. Let me repeat that.
The ASSHATS that MADE THIS MESS do NOT have the solution.
Allow me to paraphrase for Robin Hayes, George Bush and Dick Cheney (both of whom wish they had as much Exxon stock as Robin Hayes)…
“I sell crack. And make millions off it. I know you’re out of crack and hurting since I started charging so much and made sure you can’t make a living by giving my multinational corporate donors all they wanted, but I have the solution! Start crawling around on the carpet and looking for rocks you dropped. There may be some in ANWAR.
The LAST thing you need to do is make a pot of coffee. I don’t get rich on coffee. I sell crack.” ~A hypotheitcally HONEST Republican Party and Robin Hayes.
Want the very FIRST line of Libertarian Thomas Hill’s website?
Why does Robin Hayes get to give BILLIONS to a company he owns MILLIONS in?
That’s called AUTHORITARIANISM. The opposite of Libertarianism. I really don’t give a shit about your little Republican versus Democrat spat. You are the problem.
Aaron, we’re probably more on the same page than you think.
To answer your question without an analogy, I simply do not want to send billions of dollars a month to countries that want to kill me.
I now pay to rebuild schools in places where they teach kids to hate me. Can I say fuck that on here? Fuck that.
I want off oil. I’ll ride a damn horse to work and grow his “gas” in my backyard if I have to, but I’m not playing this Republican-Big Oil game anymore.
Keep your crack to yourself.
While we are pushing towards the goal of alternative fuels, it’s fool hearty not to drill our own oil on our own land in the meantime. That cuts back on the billions going to the people who want to kill us. Standing in the way of this does not help the situation either.
Increasing supply does not decrease demand. In fact, it does the opposite.
It makes Bush, Cheney and Hayes money, but not me.
This nation needs rehabilitation, not more and cheaper crack.
I don’t know about that last statement “Gosh.”
I have a 401k. It’s defined and made up exclusively of mutual fund shares. Those investment fund managers invest in oil company stock. Prices rise in oil and my 401k increases.
Seriously, you’ll need to take off the conspiracy hat for a second and look at this logically.
Blue Chip stocks are shrinking. Unions and Gub-ment enforced tariffs, monopolies and ponzi schemes are undercutting the market. Gub-ment is destroying the American economy, not oil companies or their shareholders. The dollar is sliding due to gub-ment enforced “fair lending” laws that required banks to make loans to folks who didn’t qualify for them and were foreclosed on in a few months.
So where is an investment fund manager to look for a viable vehicle to make money for all those blue collar folks with 401k plans?
He looks to the oil companies. Those companies who are forced, again by government, to import the vast majority of their oil from those countries that hate us simply because the gub-ment (starting to see the pattern here?) says they don’t want to allow said oil companies to drill, un-cap existing wells or increase refining capacity.
I’m still taking losses in my 401k because the funds I’m in are long term and only invest small amounts in oil. That being said, if not for the oil stocks in said funds I’d be down 10k and not 4k like I am now.
It’s not a conspiracy. It’s simple market forces at work. No Black Helicopters, just Friedman style economics.
The Blame-Game is reserved primarily for democrats looking to garner votes. It’s not a very logical game to play. I personally prefer chess.