In an obsucre article buried in the Utah section of today’s Salt Lake Tribune, Julian Hatch is mentioned regarding his challenge to U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch. This is the second time this paper has made mention of our Green Party candidate.
Still nothing, that I’ve seen, in the other major newspaper, the http://deseretnews.com/dn”>Deseret News.
D.C. Notebook: Hatch’s vocational memory slips
By Robert Gehrke and Thomas Burr
Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, was full of righteous indignation the other day when, on the Senate floor, he angrily scolded Democrats backing a “windfall tax” on tens of billions in profits Big Oil earned in the past quarter.
As he railed, he tossed in this tidbit: “I used to be in the oil business. I know how hard it is.”
And again: “I have been in this business. I know doggone well what it takes and how much it takes and how much it costs to develop oil and gas.”
And then, when Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., said Hatch was mistaken about what oil companies do with their profits, Hatch put it most definitively: “No, it wasn’t wrong. I lived in this industry. I understand it.”
Um . . . not precisely.
His official bio mentions he was a lather, janitor, desk attendant at a dormitory, then a lawyer and a senator. No mention of hardscrabble days on the rigs drilling for black gold.
Turns out, “lived in this industry” may have overstated it a tad. His spokesman says the senator did some legal work for a small oil company 30-plus years ago when he was in private practice. He doesn’t remember the name of the oil firm.
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