One thing I can tell you as a citizen of Kentucky is that as Attorney General Greg Stumbo was never afraid to fight big business when he felt that they were fleecing the taxpayers and hard working citizens of Kentucky.
When Big Oil was fleecing the citizens of Kentucky and the nation after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, as our Attorney General and chief law enforcement officer Greg Stumbo didn't take this lightly. He sensed something was amiss as did the rest of us and launched and investigation into price gouging:
FRANKFORT, Ky. - The first attorney general to allege price gouging on the part of a major oil refinery, Kentucky's Greg Stumbo on Monday contacted Congress with an offer to share his evidence.
Stumbo is alleging Marathon Oil, Marathon Petroleum and Speedway SuperAmerica unlawfully helped to raise gasoline prices during a declared state of emergency following hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
During the 18 months since, Stumbo said he has compiled evidence that proves the defendants overcharged consumers more than $89 million. He sent letters to members of committees investigating national gas pricing and studying a possible federal price gouging statute and Kentucky's entire Congressional delegation.
His thoughts at the time:
"Reliable information is the key to wise lawmaking, and Congress should examine our evidence of profiteering as it debates this issues," Stumbo said.
"Gas price gouging is not only an issue here at home, but it's of national concern," Stumbo said. "My litigation team and national experts in the field of petroleum pricing have reviewed voluminous amounts of evidence in this case - evidence that may be helpful to those reviewing gas price gouging on the national level."
He even offered to come to Washington and present his evidence under subpoena:
"Obviously, this evidence is highly relevant to federal price gouging review and subsequent policy making. My office would be pleased to share this information in response to a Congressional subpoena," he wrote.
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It is good to see that some public officials weren't duped by the price gouging after these natural disasters and actually tried to defend the people they were elected to represent, not the fatcats in the Oil Industry who had just gotten fatter off of all of us. If we would have had more elected officials like Greg Stumbo in our Senate at the time, American consumers may have save billions.
I think Greg Stumbo is just the kind of elected leader we need in the Senate. He is not afraid to stand up to anyone when he feels the people he was elected to represent are being fleeced. He will fight for justice for all Americans, and considers that no person or Corporation should be above the law.
Please go to this link and encourage Attorney General Stumbo to run against Mitch McConnell, and pledge your support!!:
http://www.stumbo2008.com/
We can beat Mitch McConnell here in Kentucky in 08 if we get some help from dedicated Democrats across this great nation. Please keep this race in mind and help us Ditch Mitch!!!
Best wishes fellow Democrats!!
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