WI GOP congressman supporting Ron Johnson surprised that Johnson supports Great Lakes oil drilling

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http://thinkprogress.org/2010/07/10/petri-ron-johnson/

By Lee Fang on Jul 10th, 2010 at 9:30 am

Ron Johnson, a wealthy business executive and leading Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Wisconsin this year, is beginning to receive scrutiny for his far right views. He has been criticized recently for opposing an anti-sex offenders bill, the Child Victim Act, and for saying that he is “glad there’s global warming.” Last month, when asked if he would support drilling for oil in the Great Lakes, Johnson — who owns more than $100,000 in BP stock — replied, “I think we have to, get the oil where it is.” At a town hall on Wednesday in Howards Grove, Wisconsin, ThinkProgress asked Rep. Tom Petri (R-WI) — who was sporting a Ron Johnson for Senate bumper sticker — if he agreed with Johnson’s support for Great Lakes oil drilling. Petri said he personally hasn’t supported Great Lakes drilling, but seemed genuinely baffled by Johnson’s radical views, and refused to comment:

TP: Ron Johnson, the Senate candidate here in Wisconsin, says he opposes the drilling moratorium and he even goes as far as saying he wants drilling everywhere, even possibly the Great Lakes. Would you support that kind of position?

PETRI: Well I haven’t but I don’t know the details of what exactly is being talked about and I sort of hate to respond to someone else’s characterization of an individual’s position without knowing what they actually said myself.

Watch it at link

[KamaAina]

1. Great Lakes oil drilling?!

:rofl:

There might, maybe, be some gas in Lake Erie, in the part near the notorious Marcellus Shale (home of poisonous "hydro-fracking"), but oil?! If you believe that, I've got a bridge I'd like to show you...

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2. I guess it is not so surprising when it is understood that the candidate supports

BP via 300,000 BP stock. What would be even more telling is to find out when those stock were issued.

[Bitwit1234]

3. Att told he owns $350,000 in oil stock

and he says oil drilling in our Great Lakes is OK. And as deep as they are what's the chance there is plenty plenty room for what happened in the Gulf.