Woh, Kucinich just made a big booboo, I'm pissed

[ShaneGR]

On the daily show Kucinich brought up how he just filed some paperwork to have First Energy (Our power company in NE Ohio)lose their "franchise."

Two reasons why this is not good:

JOBS: First energy employs thousands of people in the area. Jobs are at a premium here. If First Energy goes down that quickly a LOT of people lose their pensions too. I'm POSITIVE their IRA accounts took a big hit this week. And trust me, FE will fold rapidly if their own representatives don't fight on their behalf.

TAX REVENUE: Now is not the time to hurt tax revenue in Ohio. Our books are so far in the red it's ridiculous. On top of the taxes cities like Cleveland and Akron bring in, First Energy is also a major player in most of the community improvement projects in the area.

I know for a fact that three of our other Representives are currently lobbying heavilly for federal money to upgrade our transmission lines in the area: Sherrod Brown (D); Stephanie Tubbs Jones (D); and Tim Ryan (D). It simply doesn't make sense for Kucinich to ignore his own caucus and sell out Ohio jobs while he's campaigning for President. There used to be a day where if you had a problem these things were handled rapidly in Washington. If 50 million people can go without power like that, it needs to be fixed. A check was written and that was that. But who really needs federal money? Lets just bankrupt one of our own companies!

He does make a point about the hole in the nuclear plant up near Cleveland. But that plant was closed so the problem could be fixed. There was no meltdown or any accident at all. First Energy actually has a decent defense case. They saw the problem and shut it down.

As for the blackout, while it does appear that some transmission lines in First Energy's grid were the first to go down due to overload. It has been raining, and therefore not very hot, for most of the summer. Suddenly it got very hot that day and everyone turned their air conditioners on at once. The system overloaded itself. Normally the grid would shut down for a matter of minutes and the remaining grids would quickly disconnect themselves from the system. Unfortunately a number of other grids were already "purchasing" power from our grid. That's what caused the dominoe affect. No one was providing enough power to support themselves.

And no investigation has even been held yet! Why would a congressman condemn a company in HIS DISTRICT WHERE A LOT OF PEOPLE WORK before an investigation has been held???????