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And Ron Johnson Still Hasn't Made Up His Mind About His BP Stock

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Bragging Rights?

Quote of the day, in the form of a comment on the OnMilwaukee post of Jill Bader's fateful tweet:

Posted by sandstorm on Aug. 17, 2010 at 4:07 p.m.

"Walker is actually running something..."

seriously? this is an accomplishment?
Tony Hayward was running BP Oil.
you wanna brag on that guy?

Trading Card or Campaign Poster?

Via Jason Haas:



According to Jason, it's a trading card. I'm not to sure.

Check out the others.

Battle Of The Stock Options

Things are heating up in the race between Senator Russ Feingold and Ron "Tony Hayworth" Johnson. The latest round of blows deal with the stocks each candidate owns.

RoJo is still having problems with not knowing what to do with his BP stock. (It is hard for Republicans to part with a dime, much less hundreds of thousands of dollars.) RoJo's flip-flopping hit the national scene recently:



But Senator Feingold has his own issues with hanging onto stock he owns. To explain it away, he issued this statement:

Unfortunately, I will be unable to attend today's Green Bay Packers annual shareholder meeting. However, I want to make it clear that I will not be divesting my one share in the Packers. Not because it's the only stock I own, or because market conditions predict a Super Bowl, but because I am a committed Packer fan whether they are up or down."
- U.S. Senator Russ Feingold

Hello? RoJo Here...

RoJo's BP problem is sticking to him more than a tar ball, as the Chief highlights so well:



But no fear, RoJo fans! After his Senate bid crashes and burns, he's already working on his options:



He's already got the practice at it.

Also: Schmitz! Get me rewrite!

Will Ron Johnson Put His BP Money Where His Mouth Isn't?

A couple of days ago, I told you of Ron Johnson and the way he was hiding the BP stock he owned while he was defending the oil giant against being held responsible for the mess they have caused.

Among some of the inane comments that he made was that he would support drilling for oil in the Great Lakes, even though his campaign is now trying to say he didn't say what he said.

Senator Russ Feingold took opportunity of RoJo's BP-friendly attitude with this clever ad:



But RoJo's problems don't and won't end there.

In a Cog Dis exclusive, I have learned that the DPW is about to launch an online petition drive calling for Ron Johnson to put his BP money where is mouth isn't. They will be calling for him to divest from his Big Oil interests and put that money into the BP Victims Compensation Fund.

To help get their point across, they have this slide show of some of RoJo's comments showing how environmentally and socially irresponsible he really is:

You can click here to gain access to the website. Don't forget to sign the petition and let RoJo know that he needs to put his BP money where his mouth isn't, and to help the BP Victims instead of insulting them.

Does Ron Johnson Consider Us To Be "Small People?"

Last month, BP Chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg showed his compassion by complaining about the "small people" that live on the Gulf. This was following BP CEO Tony Hayward whining about wanting his life back.

Ron Johnson, who bought his way to be the leading Republican candidate for the privilege to lose to Senator Russ Feingold, came out with a number of comments defending BP, and criticizing a fund that BP is paying into to help those whose livelihoods have been destroyed with the ecosystem as their well keeps pouring out oil.

But it turned out not to be just a conservative talking point after all. It is really because RoJo owns hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of BP stock. With all the bad rep that BP is getting, that could affect the stock's worth, and then what would the poor multimillionaire do?

I'd rather have a senator doing what he thought was right for the people in Wisconsin and in America over one that was more concerned over his stock portfolio.

For your viewing pleasure: BP fixed the leak.

True Irony - BP Style

Via WBAY-TV (Green Bay), AP is reporting the latest on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig blast (emphasis mine):

The deadly blowout of an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico was triggered by a bubble of methane gas that escaped from the well and shot up the drill column, expanding quickly as it burst through several seals and barriers before exploding, according to interviews with rig workers conducted during BP's internal investigation.

While the cause of the explosion is still under investigation, the sequence of events described in the interviews provides the most detailed account of the April 20 blast that killed 11 workers and touched off the underwater gusher that has poured more than 3 million gallons of crude into the Gulf.

Portions of the interviews, two written and one taped, were described in detail to an Associated Press reporter by Robert Bea, a University of California Berkeley engineering professor who serves on a National Academy of Engineering panel on oil pipeline safety and worked for BP PLC as a risk assessment consultant during the 1990s. He received them from industry friends seeking his expert opinion.

Seven BP executives were on board the Deepwater Horizon rig celebrating the project's safety record, according to the transcripts. Meanwhile, far below, the rig was being converted from an exploration well to a production well.

As the workers removed pressure from the drilling column and introduced heat to set the cement seal around the wellhead, the chemical reaction created heat, destabilizing the seal and allowing a gas bubble to form inside the pipe.