Giuliani: Helping Citgo helps U.S.
Venezuela-owned company hired his law firmMarch 19, 2007
BY BRENDAN FARRINGTON
TAMPA, Fla. — Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani on Sunday defended his law firm’s role in representing Citgo Petroleum Corp., which is ultimately controlled by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, saying it was helping protect American jobs.
Giuliani said his opponents will try to exploit the news and acknowledged a lawyer with Bracewell & Giuliani of Houston has been representing Citgo before the Texas legislature.
The firm has had a contract with Citgo since before Giuliani joined it.
”Oh, they’ll exploit everything,” Giuliani said in an interview. ”It was one of those political attacks where you have nothing to do with it, you’re not involved in it and so it doesn’t really worry you very much. What they’re doing is lawful and honorable and helping to protect jobs for more than 100,000 Americans.”
Although Citgo Petroleum is a U.S.-based company, it was bought in 1990 by Petroleos de Venezuela, the national oil company of Venezuela. It employs 4,000 people in Texas and other states, and Giuliani said indirectly more than 100,000 people have jobs because of the company.
Chavez has been an outspoken critic of President Bush and is close to Cuban dictator Fidel Castro. AP
So who woulda thought huh ? The guy responsible for resatoring order to chaos in the 9/11 incident....backs the anti-American, Venezuelan Hugo Chavez....I ca't see how you're going to get far in political circles making moves like this. He doesn't like us, we don't like him....cut his *expletive* out of the picture. Stop importing Venezuelan oil, get the coporations that use it at their ga stations to switch to another source of petroleum and be done with his antics once and for all, but for pete's sake... don't represent the moron while running for president.... Rudy I think you need a new strategist if you're goingt o make it in the primaries elsewise the liberals will eat you alive just on this one main issue alone. I guess I can say at least you try to be diplomatic with foreign goverments as opposed to "Take that Iran, take that Venezuela" Hillary Clinton...
And now for somethin a little funny :
And Barack's full name actually is Barack Hussein Obama Jr. His father is Kenyan and his mother, white.
