CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATE MIKE STOPA compares the Deepwater Horizon oil spill with the 1979 Ixtoc 1 spill. “I cannot say with any confidence that the consequences of the current, Deepwater Horizon spill will be as slight as the fortunately slight effects of Ixtoc 1 of 1979. I present the facts just to keep my readers up to date in an issue which is of concern to many if not all of us.”