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Dems flay Rossi for Boeing tanker comment
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP Sep 22, 2010 04:32pm |
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| Author | Kyung M. Song |
| Media | Newspaper - Seattle Times |
| News Date | Tuesday, September 21, 2010 10:30:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Call it a bungle or just a bad political call, but Dino Rossi has handed Sen. Patty Murray's campaign a much-welcome cudgel by suggesting that Boeing should get no favorable treatment in its bid for the $30 billion Air Force tanker contract.
A trio of congressional Democrats joined union and labor officials Tuesday to lambaste Rossi during a telephone news conference with reporters. They suggested that Rossi's comment in Monday's News Tribune of Tacoma exposed him as ill-informed or -- worse -- possibly jeopardizing Boeing's chances of securing thousands of new jobs.
The Tacoma newspaper's editorial board asked Rossi about recent World Trade Organization rulings that both Boeing and Airbus benefited from illegal public subsidies. Reports have indicated, however, that improper launch aid from European governments to Airbus far exceeded subsidies to Boeing. |
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