Wanna go refute this negative DVO comment on my blog?

[muse]

http://muse-musings.blogspot.com/2006/06/blogging-texas-democratic-convention_10.html

I have a nice live blogging from the convention post of DVO's speech with a little picture of the "Big Oil, I'm Coming After You" thing.

Someone left this comment:

Regarding the photo attached to this post... He realizes, doesn't he, that it's "Big Oil" that built Texas? And that the most votes in the state come from the Greater Houston area where thousands and thousands of voters are employed by "Big Oil"?

It's a nice slogan, but all it says to me is that he's not quite ready for primetime. He really doesn't think he stands a chance, does he?


Anyone want to go over there and answer his questions? :) Just click on the link and have at it.

[WestHoustonDem]

1. Will do! n/t

[WestHoustonDem]

2. Ok, now please approve my comment! Here it is

The Big Oil we have now is very different than the Big Oil that built Texas.

As a former employee of a Big Oil company (and I left on good terms), I can tell you that employees want their company to behave ethically and legally in the same way that Americans want our President to uphold the Constitution. Right now, I'd rate the performance of President Bush on par with that of the oil companies.

I'm a proud American, but not proud of the behavior of my government.

You ought to check out the Oil Patch Democrats. I'll repeat it - it's not an oxymoron - Oil Patch Democrats at http://oilpatchdemocrats.blogspot.com/, and learn that not everyone's only concern is how much wealth they can amass - and that includes Big Oil's employers.

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Ouch. Can you change that last word to employee for me?

[muse]

3. done!

I knew I could count on you guys. Merci_me just left one, also.

I could have rejected his comment, but I figured he needed to be informed by the good people on DU. :)

[merci_me]

9. Link correction

I just clicked on your OPD link and it goes to an old page. However, the new one has the very same URL. You're the computer guru, so don't ask me what happened. I'm putting the link again, to see if this time it goes to the new page, where I just picked it up.

If not, go to google and type in oilpatchdemocrats. It should be the first hit.

http://oilpatchdemocrats.blogspot.com/

[w8liftinglady]

4. done :)

[merci_me]

5. Just there,....here ya go................

As a founding member of Houston's Oil Patch Democrats, let me ask you. Were you at the convention and did you attend our caucus? It started at 11am. When I got there at 10:50am, there was hardly a seat to be had. By a few minutes after 11am, people were standing at the back and still trying to come in.

We had John Courage scheduled to speak at 11:10am, so we commandeered the double size room across the hall. Again, we soon became SRO and overflowed into the hall. More than 200 people at any one time and for the entire 2 hours, as people had to leave for other caucuses, others quickly appeared to replace them.

DVO didn't address our group, like everyone there, too little time for too much to cover, but Hank Gilbert did. If you've heard Hank, you know he doesn't pussyfoot around the oil companies. He had that room in his hand and recieved more than one standing ovation.

Can DVO get people from the industry to support him? Count on it!! Maybe not the CEOs, but the Texas oil industry, the real oil industry, not the Wall Street oil industry, but the ones who have the same blood running in their veins as those wildcaters (DVO's own daddy is one of them) who sat in the board rooms with black dirt proudly under their fingernails. The ones who built this industry, this State, the Texas Democratic Party. So, watch out, we're back and voting down the CEOs who formed an unholy alliance with the wingnuts, for blood money.


June 12, 2006 6:32 PM

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[sonias]

6. Excellent job merci_me!

Makes me want to be a wildcater!

Yes the big oil we hate is not the front line employees or the industry, but the Lee R Raymond types. (ExxonMobil Former CEO). The greedy corporate bastards who have sold America's soul. Raymond's total compensation in 2005 was $25.8 million. I'm sure that's thousands of times higher many than the average salary at Exxon.

Sonia

[David Van Os]

7. I understand oil

I am from an East Texas oil family, smelling the raw stuff every day growing up in Kilgore surrounded by wells and rigs. My dad is a petroleum geologist and engineer by profession. He superintended well sites for majors, independents, and his own companies. At most any given time I usually have some small royalty or working interest investments. Believe me I understand and appreciate how black gold built Texas from a lifelong visceral perspective that the commenter probably does not share.

But that isn't the real answer to the commenter. The real answer is that the comment doesn't have anything to do with the merits of any issue, but only with odds-making. I do not have the time or luxury to indulge in playing oddsmaker, and I respectfully suggest that none of my supporters do either.

The robber barons aren't going to take my challenge lying down. The Republican political goon squads are going to hit me with everything they've got. They are going to hit hard. They'll throw more mud and slander at me than you can shake a stick at. It is going to be rough, because I'm a serious threat to their evil joy rides. Let's get it on.

DVO

[WestHoustonDem]

8. We've got your back David! n/t

[Lisa0825]

10. VCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC

LOL... that was kitty Buff saying hi!

Ahem... back to the subject at hand... David, you ROCK! You pull no punches, tell it like it is, etc... you take trite old sayings like those, which I almost gave up on having a kernel of truth, and make 'em sound like gospel! You make me forget the naysayers and defeatists. Your fire is contagious, and it makes me want to keep going year after year.

I couldn't be prouder to know you. You are the type of fighting Democrat I want representing me. THANK YOU and your family for keepin' on keepin' on. :patriot:

[David Van Os]

11. Thank YOU

for joining the fight. I'm proud to be your ally. The same goes for everybody in the DU community.