Re: Oil disaster; LA Attorney General; plaintiffs’ lawyers
I am the Libertarian candidate for the United States Senate in Lousiana.
I believe federal and state governments have an important role in passing laws that reasonably regulate business and that allow fines and other monetary costs to be imposed on businesses, such as is exemplified in the BP oil disaster.
These laws and regulation should emanate from a legitimate democratic process that mediates affected public and private interests. The government employees, from the President on down, who enforce the laws and regulations, should be attuned to the balancing that the law manifests, and they should not be biased by financial interests of their own. This includes an important role for the Louisiana Attorney General.
Recovering from the oil disaster is going to take a very long time and will require many billions of dollars for damage control, clean up costs, and compensation and other aid to persons who are damaged economically. Given the great demand for financial resources needed to recover from theoil disaster, available resources should be expended as effectively and productively as possible and should not be wasted.
Hopefully the governmental regulators, the Louisiana Attorney General, and BP employees, in doing their jobs, are working to see that available financial resources are utilized as effectively and productively as possible, including to ferret out wrongdoing.
I regret to say that I believe there are parties hovering over the oil disaster whose main interest is divert into their own pockets financial resources needed for recovery from the oil disaster.
I am referring to the plaintiffs’ lawyers. It is likely that hundreds of millions or billions of dollars is going to be paid to plaintiffs’ lawyers (and defense lawyers) related to the determination and finalization of BP’s liability and to whom the liability is owing.
I think this is wrong. I don’t think it should cost more than $50,000,000 to determine the amount of the liability and to whom it is owed. Hundreds of millions or billions of dollars should not have to be paid to lawyers for their role, and most of those amounts would be much better spent as part of the compensation paid to persons who suffer losses from the oil disaster. The moneys could also be better spent by not being paid at all and being available for use by BP and other companies who had the misfortune of contributing to the happening of the accident, in order that those parties can continue their legitimate business of producing oil for the benefit of the county, providing jobs, and paying dividends to hundreds of thousands of stockholders, big and small, including retirement plans, who are dependent on and deserving of financial returns from their investments.
Recovery from the oil disaster is going to be very onerous. As a candidate for the U.S. Senate from Louisiana, my position to the voters is that I do not think the plaintiffs’ lawyers should get paid
hundreds of millions or billions of dollars in order for the liability in question to get sorted out and those moneys could be better spent in other ways to help Louisiana recover from the oil disaster, including, directly or indirectly, to pay for the work of the Louisiana Attorney General.
Tony Gentile
Libertarian Candidate for United States Senator from Louisiana
first of all, we have to acknowledge that folks do need money to survive. for the many that have lost their primary source of income, i hope they have been hired by BP for cleanup and are getting paid fairly reasonably for it. lawyers, just are in the hunt to get more money and allow their clients to get less. i think we truly need to stick it to lawyers who truly are not for the client as much more than their own pocket. they win either way in the court (plaintiff or defense). as far as technical data about what they are doing and how they are doing, is not information needed by the AG. Fed’s are already in the mix bag of information. BP does not need to duplicate any information just becuse. if you want it, ask the fed’s. as an AG, you need to concern yourself with the folks in your state because that RIG is not within your jurisdiction.
first of all, we have to acknowledge that folks do need money to survive. for the many that have lost their primary source of income, i hope they have been hired by BP for cleanup and are getting paid fairly reasonably for it. lawyers, just are in the hunt to get more money and allow their clients to get less. i think we truly need to stick it to lawyers who truly are not for the client as much more than their own pocket. they win either way in the court (plaintiff or defense). as far as technical data about what they are doing and how they are doing, is not information needed by the AG. Fed’s are already in the mix bag of information. BP does not need to duplicate any information just becuse. if you want it, ask the fed’s. as an AG, you need to concern yourself with the folks in your state because that RIG is not within your jurisdiction.
Maybe we should impeach the president for dereliction of duty for 54 days. Makes more since than trying to prosecute someone who has actually been trying to solve the problem, rather than a politician who has been playing basketball and hiding and blaming for 54 days.
1) no dereliction of duty. as a president and CIC, he has many things he has to do.
2) BP is using the best engineers to help resolve the issue.
problem everyone is having, is that rig is in international waters. now, it does play heavily that the spill affects all. how did we get in the first place to offer a permit? that is the ultimate question to begin with. it can’t be solved overnight but BP had many issues that needed to be resolved instead of running to quickly. there were several errors made and BP has already stated it’s going to do what ever it can. remember you can’t just move a ship into place overnight nor drill overnight. it’s going to take time. but finding a solution can be the hardest things because it has never been done before. we can blame BP for not planning on the unexpected or worse case scenario, but at least they are trying to fix it.
**** alert **** ship on fire that is siphoning that oil, caused by a lightning hit… going to be a long process…
Yeah right, Woodchuk, President has too much to do than pay attention to millions of gallons of oil being dumped into our ocean. Commander and Thief of our childrens future has been too busy playing basketball, having parties for Paul McCartney and on the day of the funeral for the 11 killed he was at a fund raiser for Barbara Boxer. I think we all know where his priorities are. Maybe he just wants the oil to go away and be able to blame Bush for this!
We have updated our privacy policy to be more clear and meet the new requirements of the GDPR. By continuing to use our site, you accept our revised Privacy Policy.
Re: Oil disaster; LA Attorney General; plaintiffs’ lawyers
I am the Libertarian candidate for the United States Senate in Lousiana.
I believe federal and state governments have an important role in passing laws that reasonably regulate business and that allow fines and other monetary costs to be imposed on businesses, such as is exemplified in the BP oil disaster.
These laws and regulation should emanate from a legitimate democratic process that mediates affected public and private interests. The government employees, from the President on down, who enforce the laws and regulations, should be attuned to the balancing that the law manifests, and they should not be biased by financial interests of their own. This includes an important role for the Louisiana Attorney General.
Recovering from the oil disaster is going to take a very long time and will require many billions of dollars for damage control, clean up costs, and compensation and other aid to persons who are damaged economically. Given the great demand for financial resources needed to recover from theoil disaster, available resources should be expended as effectively and productively as possible and should not be wasted.
Hopefully the governmental regulators, the Louisiana Attorney General, and BP employees, in doing their jobs, are working to see that available financial resources are utilized as effectively and productively as possible, including to ferret out wrongdoing.
I regret to say that I believe there are parties hovering over the oil disaster whose main interest is divert into their own pockets financial resources needed for recovery from the oil disaster.
I am referring to the plaintiffs’ lawyers. It is likely that hundreds of millions or billions of dollars is going to be paid to plaintiffs’ lawyers (and defense lawyers) related to the determination and finalization of BP’s liability and to whom the liability is owing.
I think this is wrong. I don’t think it should cost more than $50,000,000 to determine the amount of the liability and to whom it is owed. Hundreds of millions or billions of dollars should not have to be paid to lawyers for their role, and most of those amounts would be much better spent as part of the compensation paid to persons who suffer losses from the oil disaster. The moneys could also be better spent by not being paid at all and being available for use by BP and other companies who had the misfortune of contributing to the happening of the accident, in order that those parties can continue their legitimate business of producing oil for the benefit of the county, providing jobs, and paying dividends to hundreds of thousands of stockholders, big and small, including retirement plans, who are dependent on and deserving of financial returns from their investments.
Recovery from the oil disaster is going to be very onerous. As a candidate for the U.S. Senate from Louisiana, my position to the voters is that I do not think the plaintiffs’ lawyers should get paid
hundreds of millions or billions of dollars in order for the liability in question to get sorted out and those moneys could be better spent in other ways to help Louisiana recover from the oil disaster, including, directly or indirectly, to pay for the work of the Louisiana Attorney General.
Tony Gentile
Libertarian Candidate for United States Senator from Louisiana
first of all, we have to acknowledge that folks do need money to survive. for the many that have lost their primary source of income, i hope they have been hired by BP for cleanup and are getting paid fairly reasonably for it. lawyers, just are in the hunt to get more money and allow their clients to get less. i think we truly need to stick it to lawyers who truly are not for the client as much more than their own pocket. they win either way in the court (plaintiff or defense). as far as technical data about what they are doing and how they are doing, is not information needed by the AG. Fed’s are already in the mix bag of information. BP does not need to duplicate any information just becuse. if you want it, ask the fed’s. as an AG, you need to concern yourself with the folks in your state because that RIG is not within your jurisdiction.
first of all, we have to acknowledge that folks do need money to survive. for the many that have lost their primary source of income, i hope they have been hired by BP for cleanup and are getting paid fairly reasonably for it. lawyers, just are in the hunt to get more money and allow their clients to get less. i think we truly need to stick it to lawyers who truly are not for the client as much more than their own pocket. they win either way in the court (plaintiff or defense). as far as technical data about what they are doing and how they are doing, is not information needed by the AG. Fed’s are already in the mix bag of information. BP does not need to duplicate any information just becuse. if you want it, ask the fed’s. as an AG, you need to concern yourself with the folks in your state because that RIG is not within your jurisdiction.
Maybe we should impeach the president for dereliction of duty for 54 days. Makes more since than trying to prosecute someone who has actually been trying to solve the problem, rather than a politician who has been playing basketball and hiding and blaming for 54 days.
1) no dereliction of duty. as a president and CIC, he has many things he has to do.
2) BP is using the best engineers to help resolve the issue.
problem everyone is having, is that rig is in international waters. now, it does play heavily that the spill affects all. how did we get in the first place to offer a permit? that is the ultimate question to begin with. it can’t be solved overnight but BP had many issues that needed to be resolved instead of running to quickly. there were several errors made and BP has already stated it’s going to do what ever it can. remember you can’t just move a ship into place overnight nor drill overnight. it’s going to take time. but finding a solution can be the hardest things because it has never been done before. we can blame BP for not planning on the unexpected or worse case scenario, but at least they are trying to fix it.
**** alert **** ship on fire that is siphoning that oil, caused by a lightning hit… going to be a long process…
Total dereliction of duty!
Yeah right, Woodchuk, President has too much to do than pay attention to millions of gallons of oil being dumped into our ocean. Commander and Thief of our childrens future has been too busy playing basketball, having parties for Paul McCartney and on the day of the funeral for the 11 killed he was at a fund raiser for Barbara Boxer. I think we all know where his priorities are. Maybe he just wants the oil to go away and be able to blame Bush for this!
Where’s Rosie when you need her?