From the campaign that just keeps giving, the Sentinel is reporting breaking news on its website:
An oil contract Republican U.S. Senate candidate Bob Schaffer helped negotiate in Iraqi Kurdistan is one of several production deals the U.S. State Department has flagged as problematic for Iraq and its attempts to establish a national oil policy.
Poor Mr. Wadhams, he sure does know how to pick ’em!
More details after the fold…
Mike Saccone’s piece goes on to note:
The oil contract, finalized in November 2007, allows a subsidiary of Schaffer’s former employer, Denver-based Aspect Energy, to produce oil on a nearly 104-square-mile plot in the Dohuk Governate in northern Iraq.
Schaffer confirmed Wednesday he was one of several Aspect Energy executives who visited Kurdistan in November 2006 and laid the groundwork for the company’s oil deal with the Kurds.
In addition to aiding the Ukraine Bumbling Bob can now add hindering the Iraqi reconstruction to his foreign policy portfolio.
According to a June 23 report from the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office, Aspect Energy’s oil contract and roughly two dozen other similar deals have proven a point of contention between Iraq and the Kurdistan Regional Government.
“The (Kurdistan Regional Government) has negotiated an estimated 25 contracts with foreign oil firms, which the Iraqi federal government claims are illegal,” according to the report.
Schaffer said he was unaware the State Department had warned energy firms not to strike oil deals with the Kurdistan Regional Government at the time of his visit. “We didn’t experience any discouragement,” Schaffer said.
John Fleming, a spokesman with the State Department’s Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, said the U.S. government has always asked that energy firms conduct business with Iraq’s federal government and not other entities in the country.
Way to go Bob!
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Is this guy toast yet?
We want Bob as the candidate through the primary election in August. Once we hit mid-August it’s too late for anyone else to mount an effective campaign.
and there’s no back bench. So fire away, guys.
to Saccone’s story:
http://www.gjsentinel.com/blog…
Beyond what Twitty cited, includes more background on the deals and a response from the Udall campaign.
Note: Pols raised the question in this diary a week ago. Looks like we have our answer.
Oliver’s right, Schaffer is toast. But his new press secretary should be earning her salary the next few days.
You do not have a life do you?
nada, zip, zilch. Other than picking up the welfare check, stopping by the liquor store (yea! Sunday sales) and heading to the public library to surf adult sites and post on Pols!