Cavala: Wyoming’s Two G.O.P. Senators Support Oil Drilling Off Our Coast - Oppose Drilling In Wyoming

By Bill Cavala
A veteran of over 30 years in Sacramento

Decrying California Democrats as insensitive to higher gasoline prices because they oppose additional off-shore drilling is a new sport with Republicans. That a supply shortage has nothing to do with today’s prices has nothing to do with it. Nor does the fact that it would take years to add supply with ocean drilling.

It sounds good in an election year – especially to Republicans who have so very little to say in defense of their last eight years in power.

But while joining in on the attack, Wyoming’s two Republican United States Senators are simultaneously opposing the Bush administration’s proposal to drill for oil in the Bridger-Teton national forest. Their opposition is expressed in a co-authored piece of legislation that would kill any chance of energy exploration in the Wyoming Range.

“Some places are just too special to develop”, said one of the Senators in a prepared statement.

Yep.

Let’s not drill in Republican areas.

Bill Cavala was Deputy Director of the Assembly Speaker’s Office of Member Services where he worked for over 30 years. He attended undergraduate and graduate school in the 1960’s and received a doctorate in political science at UC Berkeley. He taught political science at UC Berkeley during the 1970's while he worked part-time for the State Assembly.

Cavala left teaching at UC Berkeley and went to work for Assembly Speaker Willie Brown in 1981 until his tenure as Speaker ended in 1995, and he has worked for his five successors as Speaker. He now manages election campaigns for Democratic candidates.

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Posted by: jorda at September 21, 2008 03:29 PM

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