Pelosi Withdraws Promise to TTAC to Reveal Models in Motown Bailout Buy
What a difference a weekend makes. On Friday, I spoke with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s PR person. She promised to help us identify the models involved in Uncle Sam’s purchase of 17,205 Chrysler, Ford and GM vehicles (as part of the economic stimulus package). Talk about backing away . . . Not only did Pelosi press secretary Drew Hammill deny making any such promise, her e-mail asked us to remove our story. No chance. I stand by my report. Oh, and “we do not have the information on what types of vehicles GSA has ordered. You will have to get that information from them.” As you know (and I told Hammill), the GSA stonewalled that request. Meanwhile, here’s a question: does this mean that Speaker Pelosi doesn’t care what percentage of these vehicles will be US made? Or how much more fuel efficient they will be than the vehicles they replace? If, as stated, this purchase was designed to create jobs and help the environment, how can she support it without knowing those crucial details? How, indeed.
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Forget it. I'm getting my deposit back on the Pelosimobile.
1) Yes, Commando you are the only one. 2) KixStart : June 15th, 2009 at 4:27 pm The GSA probably doesn’t know yet. There’s a procurement process to go through and then there will be a bureacratically delayed decision of some sort. The White House probably wants fast action but procurement rules are there to try and provide some semblance of fairness and equal opportunity to the process and you can’t wave them away in a hurry. Then how can they, meaning Pelosi, announce: "We know that we can create jobs and save taxpayer dollars while protecting our planet, and with the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, we are. The news that General Services Administration is one step closer to buying new, fuel efficient vehicles is good for our economy, good for our workers, and good for our environment. Because this will increase the fuel efficiency of the federal fleet, it’s also good for the American taxpayer." Don't you need to know what is being purchased to claim that it will save the economy and the environment, etc.?