Ex-congressman Joe Kennedy praises Hugo Chavez’s charity

[Eugene]

Source: Washington Post

Ex-congressman Joe Kennedy praises Hugo Chavez's charity

Posted by Aaron Blake on March 6, 2013 at 11:33 am

Former congressman Joe Kennedy (D-Mass.) is mourning the death of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez today, praising Chavez as someone who made a difference for poor people.

Kennedy told the AP that Chavez helped 2 million Americans through a heating assistance program that the two men worked on together through Kennedy’s Citizen’s Energy charity. Kennedy said Chavez donated 200 million gallons of heating oil over eight years.

Kennedy also said that “some of the wealthiest people on our planet have more money than they can ever reasonably expect to spend.”

Kennedy joins Rep. Jose Serrano (D-N.Y.) among the few American politicians to praise Chavez after his death Tuesday.

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[Autumn]

1. Very classy and kind. Thank you Mr. Kennedy

K/R

[Dawson Leery]

2. k/r

[Judi Lynn]

3. Really decent, and courageous of him and the others to do this.

Sad it takes courage to speak well of someone our right-wing-driven State Department loathes.

Feeding the death machine/chicken hawk right-wing policy obsession has destroyed this country's reputation among the sane human beings of this planet.

[idwiyo]

4. K&R

[malaise]

5. But but but they say he was evil because he insisted that corporations pay taxes to

subsidize programs for the poor in Venezuela and elsewhere.

He was a great neighbor.

[fascisthunter]

6. Yup... comes down to actions, not ideology or party affiliation