"Fenton Communications [3] is promoting Venezuela's discounted oil program for disadvantaged families in Massachusetts, New York and maybe Maine," reports O'Dwyer's. The left-leaning PR firm "promoted the Nov. 22 press event held in the home of a low-income North Quincy, Mass., couple that featured [Democratic Congressman William] Delahunt and Venezuela's Ambassador to the U.S., Bernardo Alvarez." Venezuela says the offer is a "simple act of generosity to help people in Massachusetts weather the combined economic storms of Katrina [4], Rita [5] and the global oil shortage [6]." The Wall Street Journal decried the arrangement [7] as "lobbying" for "Venezuelan tyrant" Hugo Chavez [8]. On December 1, full-page ads promoting the arrangement appeared in the New York Times, USA Today, Washington Post and Houston Chronicle. In Venezuela, the main opposition parties say they will boycott the December 4 legislative elections [9].