Investor's Business Daily: Vitter, Gulf States Rally Against Moratorium

Investor's Business Daily: Vitter, Gulf States Rally Against Moratorium

Investor's Business Daily
7/21/2010

Louisiana's Cajundome will not be hosting a basketball game, a wrestling match or a music concert on Wednesday. Instead, thousands are expected to clap and cheer for . . . oil.

The event in Lafayette is called the Rally for Economic Survival, and the thousands, including Republican Gov. Bobby Jindal, will urge President Obama to lift his ban on new deep-water oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.

Sen. David Vitter, R-La., said the rally marks "an important moment for Louisianans to come together" and speak out.

"The president's moratorium is putting tens of thousands of jobs and billions of dollars at risk, and it needs to end before the damage gets any worse," Vitter told IBD.

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