Matt Doheny Is Endorsed By WHO???

Rick Wiley at the Cape Vincent “anti wind” blog JLL must think you and I are really stupid as he hands out his Republican hoopla!  Wiley must think you are so gullible that you won’t look beyond what he says is the “truth.”  His support of Republican Matt Doheny running for Congress  is no secret and a prime example.

 Today Wiley has a post on his blog that the US Chamber of Commerce has endorsed Matt Doheny for Congress. This has to be a good thing for the Republicans right? Well if you want to see another example how this partisan nonsense clouds the truth…then read on.  Here is what the Chamber said about Doheny in their endorsement.

"It is the Chamber's goal to help elect a pro-business majority in Congress and work diligently in support of the interests of businesses large and small to advance legislation that encourages economic growth, job creation and a less intrusive federal government," said Chamber President and Chief Executive Office Thomas Donohue in a letter to Doheny. "We believe that your election to the U.S. House of Representatives will help produce sustained economic growth, help create more jobs and get our country back on track." 

So I am sitting here with this uncomfortable feeling thinking, why does this Chamber endorsement have a really familiar odor to it???   

Let’s see….

 “"It is the Chamber's goal to help elect a pro-business majority in Congress and work diligently in support of the interests of businesses large and small to advance legislation that encourages economic growth, job creation…

Wait a minute…What the hell… isn’t that exactly the mantra of the supporters of Article X and BIG WIND that could ram LARGE BUSINESS  BP  wind right down our throats!!!!! It’s the same damn mantra crap!!!

 It also dawns on me that the Chamber’s statement is in large part why we are suffering under the totalitarian control of BIG BUSINESS, and BIG political legislative  intrusion favoring BIG BUSINESS  right here in Cape Vincent and trying to take our home rule rights away.  Wake up…what the hell do you think the Chamber is really saying?  They might as well be talking about insidious legislation and the people who support it like Article X.  That support of BUSINESS LARGE and SMALL sounds good for Republicans to swallow whole but it  has some real dark  sides to it as we in CV  now all know.

So I get a hunch, and with no more than a single Google search I find it.  What else do you think the US Chamber who endorses Doheny also endorses.  You Republicans will need to sit down.  The US Chamber supports the Production Tax Credit subsidies that supports BIG WIND like BP!!! They believe the PTC should be extended.  You can read about this at the link below.

http://www.windpowermonthly.com/news/1115180/US-Chamber-Commerce-backs-PTC-extension/

Now this would be the exact same PTC that Republican Wiley at JLL has been ranting against. He has also been ranting against Congressman Bill Owens, Doheny’s opponent, for supporting the PTC.  Yet here is Doheny soaking up the endorsement of the US Chamber who also supports the PTC for big wind .  So let me see…what do they call this?  Oh that’s right…HYPOCRITCAL!!!

Then there is this from the article about the US Chamber supporting the PTC extension.

“The chamber's endorsement follows that of President Barack Obama's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness. The council said the PTC will help the US "diversify its generation portfolio and prepare for rising levels of energy demand."

So the  US Chamber who supports Doheny, supports the same PTC subsidies Bill Owens supports, ands apparently also supports Obama’s big green agenda!

 And oh yeah what about Republican big boy Karl Rove also supporting the PTC at a American Wind Energy Assoc. conference.  Oh I feel sorry for you CV Republicans who might get a headache having to think outside Wiley’s limited Republican box to untangle this little inconvenient web.  Good luck with that!!!

Like I have said before, if you approach the wind issue with this partisan nonsense that industrial  wind is all the fault of one political party, then you really don’t get it and will be ineffective at fighting  against industrial wind.  You will end up like Wiley shooting at all the wrong targets and endorsing the very things you are fighting against. Remember that according to Wiley NY Sen. Patty Richie was supposed to be our Republican savior on the wind issue. Yet she was one of the votes to put wind corrupted former NY Sen. Aubertine in Cuomo’s job appointment at Ag & Markets.  That would be after a democratic vote for her was supposed to remove Aubertine and his wind conflicts from NY govt. Endorsing her was a brilliant call on Wiley’s and other CV Republican’s part.  It is exactly how you can get suckered. And the local CV Republicans say I am politically out of touch…go figure.

It is exactly how our new zoning law was formulated as well,  with only one tunnel vision line of political thinking to appease Article X as the driving force,  rather than to stand up to completely protect the entire community.  It is why our Republican dominated board threw some of the people and properties  in the CV interior right under the bus in terms of protection from industrial wind.  They didn’t even give those people in the interior the very property protection guarantee they were so all ga ga about at one time and has suddenly completely evaporated in our new zoning.

I would be real careful about drinking the Republican Kool- Aid as we move ahead in the CV wind issue. Doesn’t appear to have a real good record so far!