BP no-show for Mississippi House oil spill hearing

[Ed Barrow]

Source: The Clarion Ledger

Mississippi lawmakers holding hearings about the Gulf of Mexico oil spill were hoping to hear directly from BP executives to get a better idea about the scope of the problem.

They got a letter instead.

The company informed legislators that no BP representatives would be able to appear at the House committee hearings in Jackson, and suggested an alternate date.

House Speaker Billy McCoy said he considered the company’s action an insult. “We are not holding these hearings to conduct a witch-hunt,” McCoy said in a statement Tuesday


Read more: http://www.clarionledger.com/article/20100608/NEWS/100608024/BP+no-show+for+Miss.+oil+spill+hearing

[wordpix]

1. IOW, GFY, Mississippi ---let's hear Hailey Barbour's spin on the no show

Next we'll hear: "No reason for hearings, BP is a fine citizen of the Gulf Coast, keep shopping..."

[Barack_America]

2. He was probably in New York anyhow...

...or wherever he keeps running off to avoid Obama.

[CanonRay]

3. Don't they know that employees don't question the boss?

How very rude of them.