GOP Congressional Candidate Catches Chinese Stealing Florida's Oil
How clever of those dastardly Chinese?
Here they are, staging these big, elaborate Olympic games designed to subdue us into a lethargic, Michael Phelps-worshipping trance, while back in the Homeland, they're stealing all the oil off of Florida!
At least that's the way congressional candidate Tom McClintock tells it.
McClintock, a Republican vying to replace John Doolittle in the 4th District of California, claimed in a letter to the Auburn, California Journal…
The vast oil fields off the coast of Florida that American law prevents Americans from developing are now being drained by the Chinese government drilling in Cuban waters.
McClintock would know a thing or two about drilling into someone else's territory. While the 4th district is located in the northeastern corner of California, abutting Nevada and Oregon, McClintock himself lives in Ventura County, adjacent to Los Angeles…
McClintock… is in the unusual position of running for an office where he can't vote for himself. For 22 years, he has represented Thousand Oaks (Ventura County), where by state law he has to be registered to keep his state Senate seat. Under federal rules, congressional candidates can live anywhere in the state.
Suddenly, the Chinese don't seem so slimy. I mean, if we all followed Tom McClintock's logic, Hu Jintao might as well run for Governor of Florida. And Michael Phelps could ascend to Chairman the Chinese Communist Party.
And then McClintock could go to the bottom of the ocean to hoard all that oil for himself.
RSS
In the Constitution, there is no requirement to live in your congressional district, only tat you live in the state.
dito: I think you mean "banzai."
James: there are any number of environmental risks, beginning with what happens if the platform over that "little hole" has a malfunction and spills oil all over the ocean. And then there's the problem with what to do with those huge platforms (and they are huge!) once you've sucked up the reservoir of oil dry. Oh, and finally, there's the issue that with the amount of time it takes to construct said platforms, drill, and process the oil, we won't see any in our pumps for years. We'd be better off looking at alternative energies.
Come on, hasn't the Daily Show covered this topic enough for you to at least know that last fact?
Also… MILKSHAKE!!! (for Nick)
Bansai
Weird to think they are drilling here, why aren't we drilling offshore though. What is the environmental risk, there's a small hole drilled in the ocean floor, a ship picks up the oil and takes it to land, where is there any environmental impact? And what the hell is a senator on the exact opposite side of the mainland U.S. doing involved in an issues in Florida? Camilla, you might be right.
Let's see. Ventura County, Florida, China, but nothing about the district this guy is supposed to be representing. Do you think he's even been there?
What, no milkshake joke?