One of Bobby Kennedy's sons is a spokesman for the heating oil for the poor effort. In the commercial he calls Venezuela our friend, and if I heard it right he also named Citgo by name. Maybe the ad was recorded before the outrageous comments by Chavez at the UN, but I would still expect him to have the ads pulled or modified.
I got this in an email earlier today. I thought it worth copying here.
>I had to forward this, because Chavez is starting to feel the loss of
>revenue from his holdings in the US . This is a very important move that
>everyone should be aware of and what he is doing to try to fool the
>American buyers.
>
>
> VERY IMPORTANT MEMO:
>
> ANNOUNCED JUST RECENTLY, CITGO, BEING AWARE THAT SALES ARE DOWN DUE TO
> U.S. CUSTOMERS NOT WANTING TO BUY FROM "CHAVEZ".... HAVE STARTED TO
> CHANGE THE NAME OF SOME OF THEIR STORES, TO: "PETRO EXPRESS"
>
> DO NOT BUY FROM "PETRO EXPRESS", EITHER. AS TRUE ABOUT CITGO, "PETRO
> EXPRESS" IS ALSO 100% OWNED BY "CHAVEZ" ....
>
> KEEP THIS MEMO GOING SO EVERYONE KNOWS WHAT IS HAPPENING. Venezuela
> Dictator Vows To Bring Down U.S. Government
>
> Venezuela government is sole owner of Citgo Gasoline Company Venezuela
> Dictator Hugo Chavez has vowed to bring down the U.S. government. Chavez,
> president of Venezuela , told a TV audience: "Enough of imperialist
> aggression; we must tell the world: down with the U.S. empire. We have to
> bury imperialism this century."
>
> The guest on his television program, beamed across Venezuela , was Cindy
> Sheehan, the antiwar activist. Chavez recently had as his guest Harry
> Belafonte, who called President Bush "the greatest terrorist in the
> world."
>
> Chavez is pushing a socialist revolution and has a close alliance with
> Cuban dictator Fidel Castro.
>
> Regardless of your feelings about the war in Iraq , the issue here is that
> we have a socialist dictator vowing to bring down the government of the
> U.S. And he is using our money to achieve his goal!
>
> The Venezuela government, run by dictator Chavez, is the sole owner of
> Citgo gas company. Sales of products at Citgo stations send money back to
> Chavez to help him in his vow to bring d own our government. Why should
> U.S. citizens who love freedom be financing a dictator who has vowed to
> take down our government? Very important. Please forward this to your
> friends and family. Most of them don't know that Citgo is owned by the
> Venezuela government.
>
>
I got this in an email earlier today. I thought it worth copying here.
>I had to forward this, because Chavez is starting to feel the loss of
>revenue from his holdings in the US . This is a very important move that
>everyone should be aware of and what he is doing to try to fool the
>American buyers.
>
>
> VERY IMPORTANT MEMO:
>
> ANNOUNCED JUST RECENTLY, CITGO, BEING AWARE THAT SALES ARE DOWN DUE TO
> U.S. CUSTOMERS NOT WANTING TO BUY FROM "CHAVEZ".... HAVE STARTED TO
> CHANGE THE NAME OF SOME OF THEIR STORES, TO: "PETRO EXPRESS"
>
> DO NOT BUY FROM "PETRO EXPRESS", EITHER. AS TRUE ABOUT CITGO, "PETRO
> EXPRESS" IS ALSO 100% OWNED BY "CHAVEZ" ....
>
> KEEP THIS MEMO GOING SO EVERYONE KNOWS WHAT IS HAPPENING. Venezuela
> Dictator Vows To Bring Down U.S. Government
>
> Venezuela government is sole owner of Citgo Gasoline Company Venezuela
> Dictator Hugo Chavez has vowed to bring down the U.S. government. Chavez,
> president of Venezuela , told a TV audience: "Enough of imperialist
> aggression; we must tell the world: down with the U.S. empire. We have to
> bury imperialism this century."
>
> The guest on his television program, beamed across Venezuela , was Cindy
> Sheehan, the antiwar activist. Chavez recently had as his guest Harry
> Belafonte, who called President Bush "the greatest terrorist in the
> world."
>
> Chavez is pushing a socialist revolution and has a close alliance with
> Cuban dictator Fidel Castro.
>
> Regardless of your feelings about the war in Iraq , the issue here is that
> we have a socialist dictator vowing to bring down the government of the
> U.S. And he is using our money to achieve his goal!
>
> The Venezuela government, run by dictator Chavez, is the sole owner of
> Citgo gas company. Sales of products at Citgo stations send money back to
> Chavez to help him in his vow to bring d own our government. Why should
> U.S. citizens who love freedom be financing a dictator who has vowed to
> take down our government? Very important. Please forward this to your
> friends and family. Most of them don't know that Citgo is owned by the
> Venezuela government.
>
>