Sunday's Sun Herald features a full page ad for bp. Really? This ad is entitled "Making This Right". Sadly, it is about a restaurant in Louisiana. This restaurant is glad that bp paid clean-up people to come to their area. Really? Beyond the "...come down..." quote, this is obviously all bp propaganda. They say that they have supported businesses, and we do appreciate that. On the Mississippi Gulf Coast, bp's boat people filled casino hotels, but mostly with little play at the tables. bp says that they have kept local businesses open. Really? Open? But how many dollars have been lost, how many jobs have been lost, how many tips have been lost, and how many hours have been cut back? Consequently, many hourly and tipped employees (including casinos) on our own Gulf Coast have been severely skunked. Of course we are a great place, ready to welcome people when they "come down." But, please, this ad tries to camouflage the very serious economic damage that bp has done to the Gulf Coast of Mississippi.
As of this morning, the GCCF website shows Mississippi with a bp claims denial rate of 40%, while our three neighbor states, AL, FL, and LA are being denied at only 13%. Who is stomping on Mississippi and why? Are any of our elected officials pitching in on this? Can we please hear from Gene Taylor and Haley Barbour before the election next Tuesday?
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