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Hall Energy Stunt Stalls

East Fishkill, NY / August 22, 2008 – John Hall's energy policy was on display today when the Congressman toured with a veggie mobile that, according to his own staff, "had problems all day."

Hall's website told voters to be on the lookout for the "Big Green Bus," to promote the use of alternative energy technology. The "Big Green Bus" is a retired school bus retrofitted to run on used vegetable oil and powered by solar panels on its roof.

By the time Hall arrived late at the final stop, the media had left, there was no visible interest on the part of the community, and the bus was nowhere to be found. His grandstanding opportunity lost, Hall quit for the day to continue his 5-week long taxpayer paid vacation.

Neither Hall nor his campaign actually traveled in the veggie bus to Wappingers.  Instead, they arrived to this supposedly "green" "event" in two cars: a slick, gas guzzling Volvo; and, for the self-described conservationist John Hall, a (chauffeured) shiny, SUV.

"The bizarre vegetable bus fiasco is more proof that John Hall's representation of us in Congress is a series of empty promises and shallow photo-ops rather than anything resembling the serious leadership we need," said his opponent Kieran Michael Lalor.

While Hall's campaign gave enthusiastic coverage of the "Big Green Bus," endorsing it as a solution to the energy crisis, in fact the bus is a college science project.

According to Lalor spokesman Chris Covucci, "Obviously, this is not a serious solution to the $4 dollar a gallon gas emergency that the people of the Hudson Valley have to contend with on a daily basis. While residents of the Hudson Valley are scrambling to figure out how to pay for their skyrocketing home heating oil bill, Hall toys around with the 'Big Green Bus.' Is he serious?"

In direct contrast, Hall's opponent, Kieran Michael Lalor, has filed more than 6,200 signatures to begin a new grassroots party called "Energy Security Now!", which puts all options on the table to lower energy prices.

"I'm all for alternative energy sources as one of many options, but we can't vegetable our way out of $4 per gallon gas. Doesn't food cost enough already?" said Lalor.