FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Lalor Campaign Headquarters Vandalized
East Fishkill, NY/June 30, 2008 – Overnight, the Kieran Michael Lalor 2008 campaign headquarters was vandalized. A sign outside the headquarters was defaced.
The Lalor campaign recently placed an enormous advertisement outside the office
reminding voters that a gallon of gas cost $2.31 when Representative John Hall took office just 18 months ago but now costs more than $4.00. The sign asks “Pain at the Pump?,” and answers the question with “Blame John Hall.” The vandals defaced the sign, replacing “John Hall” with “George Bush.”
The sign was featured last week in a full-page Times Herald-Record story and energy policy was the subject of a recent Lalor op-ed in the Poughkeepsie Journal.
“This is typical of the petty partisan posturing that has prevented America from developing a real energy policy,” said Lalor campaign spokesman Chris Covucci.
Continued Covucci, “John Hall has no real solutions so his supporters are reduced to juvenile partisan vandalism. Theories about speculators and oil barons propagated by Hall and others are not productive. Regulation, taxation and litigation will not lower the price at the pump. High prices stem from tight supply and only increasing supply will ease the pain at the pump. Thus we must harness our domestic resources by implementing Lalor’s five-point plan to reduce gas prices: Drill more, refine more, tax less, regulate less and simultaneously encourage innovation.”
“Mr. Lalor agrees that President Bush and all of our elected officials in Washington bare blame for the current energy crisis. However, President Bush is not up for reelection and John Hall is. Moreover, radical environmental policies, supported by Hall for decades are the long-term cause of the current energy crunch.”
“Energy independence will be the defining issue of 2008. Lalor is the candidate of energy solutions,” concluded Covucci.
