Powers campaign asks Jack Davis to answer questions about his "millions in oil and big energy stocks"

Posted by Philip Anselmo on July 10, 2008 - 2:33pm
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The campaign to elect Democrat Jon Powers to the 26th Congressional District is again calling out primary opponent Jack Davis. They allege that Davis' financial disclosure statement revealed that Davis has more than $35 million in oil and big energy stocks — including Chevron, Exxon Mobil and Hess Corp.

The Batavian asked Davis to respond to those initial questions posed by the Powers campaign when they were released a couple weeks ago. No one on the Davis campaign addressed the issue directly in this forum, although, after some inquiries on our part, a representative of the campaign signalled the release of Davis own national energy policy that stressed "energy diversity" — nothing more specific, however, has yet been released.

From the Powers camp press release:

"Jack Davis claims that he will go to Washington and work to lower gas prices, yet he refuses to answer some seemingly simple questions about the $35 million he has invested in Big Oil and the hundreds of thousands of dollars he has profited off of record high gas prices," said Powers for Congress campaign manager John Gerken. "The more money Big Oil makes, the more money Jack Davis makes."

Two weeks ago the Powers Campaign posed several questions to Jack Davis regarding his conflicted interests regarding America's energy independence. Two weeks have passed and still no word from Jack Davis about the $35 million in energy stocks.

Again, we have asked the Davis campaign to respond.

Posted by Daniel Jones on July 10, 2008 - 7:40pm
Good luck with a response from the Davis camp, as far as he's concerned alls that he has to do is run tv ads.

My issue with Mr. Davis isn't the fact that he has oil stocks, my issue is that he has oil stocks and then says that he'll take on big oil. Your telling me that he's going to go head to head with the same people that are funding him, not just his campaign, but him personally? Give me a break.

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Posted by Philip Anselmo on July 11, 2008 - 1:00pm
Powers campaigners, I've had an unofficial response from the Jack Davis campaign — with the hope of getting something official Monday. I was told that Powers has a larger percentage of his wealth in oil and big energy stocks than Davis. Is this true?