News, June , 2007
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Kucinich Presidential campaign unveils first TV spot, 'No more blood for oil'
CLEVELAND OH – June 10, 2007
The Kucinich Presidential campaign has unveiled its first television commercial - "No more blood for oil" - and is previewing it with supporters and friends on the campaign website http://kucinich.us/node/4580/play and on popular Internet sites, including YouTube and MySpace.
Using the all-too-familiar sights and sounds of a gas pump ringing up the higher and higher cost of filling up the tank, the pump then begins registering even higher and more disturbing numbers: dead and wounded U.S. soldiers; innocent Iraqis killed, wounded, and displaced; the staggering profits of oil companies; potential profits from "stealing Iraq's oil"; and U.S. tax dollars spent on the war in Iraq. It concludes with the message: "No more blood for oil."
Kucinich, D-OH, is the only Presidential candidate who voted against the original war authorization in 2002 and every war-funding appropriation since. He recently delivered an unprecedented hour-long speech on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives documenting that an Administration "benchmark" buried deep in the recent war supplemental appropriation would actually allow international oil companies to privatize Iraq's oil industry and gain control of upwards of 80% of Iraq production and reserves.
"Congressman Kucinich has been absolutely right about this since the beginning, and only recently have some of the other Democratic candidates recognized that they were wrong in authorizing and continuing to fund this war for all these years," the campaign said in a statement. "They had a chance to stop it before it began, and they could have stopped funding it anytime since. They didn't."
The commercial provides a dramatic and powerful visualization of the consequences of those decisions. It was produced by the campaign's in-house creative staff, headed by Chad Ely, National Media Director, and video editor Eric Blumrich. The campaign is planning a wider distribution in the near future.
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National HQ: Andy Juniewicz, (216) 409-8992, ajuniewicz@aol.com
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