GULF COAST BUSINESSES, CITIZENS UNITE, LAUNCH AD CAMPAIGN AGAINST MORATORIUM

News Release July 23, 2010

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Mounts
Washington, DC, Advertising Campaign To Fight Back Against Drilling
Ban
 
Baton
Rouge, LA –A new organization composed of Louisiana businesses, organizations
and individuals -- Gulf Citizens United (GCU) -- has been formed to raise a
unified voice against the oil drilling moratorium on the Gulf Coast. 
Specifically, GCU has been created “for the purpose
of furthering the common good and general welfare of the gulf coast community as
a non-profit organization dedicated to bringing attention to the economic
hardships associated with the oil and gas drilling moratorium and working toward
its cessation.” 
 
GCU has mounted
an advertising campaign on Capitol Hill aimed at lawmakers to underscore the
severe economic consequences of the
drilling ban proposed by the Obama Administration.  
Running several
half-page ads in Capitol Hill publications the week of July 26, the GCU ad
headline says, “The
Ban on Offshore Drilling is a Ban on American Jobs!”  It notes
a recent Bloomberg national poll that found 75% of Americans are opposed to the
ban. (see ad attached)
“In just one
act, the Obama Administration has signed the pink slips of tens of thousands of
Louisiana and Gulf Coast citizens.  The financial consequences
from the moratorium will eventually create an economic ripple effect that will
negatively impact every citizen of the United States and consumers will bare the
brunt by paying more everywhere from the pump to the grocery store,” said
Dan
Juneau, GCU Secretary-Treasurer and President of the Louisiana Association of
Business & Industry. 
The
group also joined forces with other local groups for a “Rally for Economic
Survival,” on July 21 in Lafayette, Louisiana at the Cajundome that drew
thousands.
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