Daily Kos: West, Texas explosion editorial cartoon strikes a nerve with Rick Perry

" I'm defending this one because I think that when you have a politician traveling across the country selling a state with low regulatory capacity, that politician also has to be accountable for what happens when that lack of regulation proves to be fatal. That's exponentially more offensive to me. 

My job, as I understand it, is to be provocative. I provoke, you decide. I don't dictate, I put out my opinion along with everyone else. I sign my name. I own it. In my opinion, I could have gone further. Much further. "

Ohman "had to draw" the cartoon, because Texas decided not to send a regulator to West to inspect the plant. Maybe if Texas had sent someone to check it out between 2006-2013, then there would not have an explosion killing victims and causing grieving families, he explained.

"Gambling with the lives of innocent people is much more offensive to me. That's way worse than tasteless. It's reckless," Ohman concluded.

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