Sleeping with/Lobbying for the Enemy?
Former Congressman Joseph P. Kennedy II is the face and voice for a TV ad campaign for Citgo, which is owned by the Venezuelan government. Citgo is partnering with Kennedy's Citizens Energy to discount home heating fuel to poor US families.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/16/AR2007021601003.html.
Kennedy thanks "our friends in Venezuela;" Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez ballyhoos the program as well. Many in the US, however, see the campaign as a political effort to boost Citgo and Chavez. A bitter critic of President Bush and the US, Chavez is nationalizing US and all foreign oil companies out of Venezuela.
A Washington Post Business Section article (2/24/07, P. D-1) quoted Kennedy as saying he was "morally righteous." Is he playing politics to boost a "friend" of Iran and Cuba and "enemy" of the US (Venezuela's biggest oil customer)? You decide.
Should he register as a Foreign Agent under US law? That's for someone else to decide.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/16/AR2007021601003.html.
Kennedy thanks "our friends in Venezuela;" Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez ballyhoos the program as well. Many in the US, however, see the campaign as a political effort to boost Citgo and Chavez. A bitter critic of President Bush and the US, Chavez is nationalizing US and all foreign oil companies out of Venezuela.
A Washington Post Business Section article (2/24/07, P. D-1) quoted Kennedy as saying he was "morally righteous." Is he playing politics to boost a "friend" of Iran and Cuba and "enemy" of the US (Venezuela's biggest oil customer)? You decide.
Should he register as a Foreign Agent under US law? That's for someone else to decide.
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