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Thursday, August 07, 2008

Talking About Nancy Pelosi, Brett Guthrie Makes Her A Focus Of His Campaign Against David Boswell.

Below's from the Guthrie campaign:

Friends – yesterday, Brett Guthrie signed a petition calling for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to call the Congress back in to session to deal with high gas prices. As you know, she adjourned the House last week and sent them on a five week vacation after blocking all votes on expanded energy production. Yesterday, our opponent, David Boswell, said the issue of high gas prices “could wait” until after the Congressional vacation. Brett challenged him to sign the petition, because he thinks it can’t wait, that we need action now! This morning, Boswell refused to sign the petition.

Here's a link to the Messenger Inquirer article (sorry, requires subscription), and below are excerpts:

Republican Brett Guthrie named national and economic security as his top issues during a speech Wednesday at the Owensboro Rotary Club before zeroing in on the price of gas and oil production -- the most talked-about political issues of the summer.
Guthrie followed up his speech by saying he has signed a petition asking Nancy Pelosi, the speaker of the U.S. House, to recall that body to Washington, D.C., to take up an expanded oil drilling proposal and challenged his Democratic opponent David Boswell to do the same.
"I'm a big believer that we should expand our domestic drilling base and we should do it now," said Guthrie, a state senator from Bowling Green, after the speech. "It can't wait until the (congressional) vacation is over with."
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The meeting provided Guthrie an opportunity to pair his personal and professional experiences with what he sees as the chief issues facing the country and the state.
Along with highlighting energy concerns, Guthrie expressed his desire to create a second "golden triangle" in Kentucky out of the 2nd District cities of Owensboro, Elizabethtown and Bowling Green.
Lexington, Louisville and northern Kentucky have been called the "golden triangle" because of their importance to the state and the amount of resources committed to those areas.

When asked whether the focus on gas prices and oil production is obscuring other important issues from the political debate, Guthrie said that issue is dominating because of its far-reaching impact.
"People are concerned about the economy, which is driven by gas prices right now," Guthrie said. "It's putting a pinch on everybody."

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