Friday, July 17, 2009
American Conservative Union Accused of Shaking Down FedEx, Cutting Deal With Rival
Posted by Jackson Baker on Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 4:16 PM
“The American Conservative Union asked FedEx for a check for $2 million to $3 million in return for the group’s support in a bitter legislative dispute, then the group’s chairman flipped and sided with UPS after FedEx refused to pay.” .So goes one of those “stranger than fiction” accounts — this one from the Politico.com website. It concerns a congressional mano-a-mano between FedEx and arch-rival UPS over whether FedEx truck routes should be considered under different and more stringent federal regulations regarding union recognition than apply to its airline routes.
Here's the Politico story: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0709/25072.html#ixzz0LYKQ5HMYhttp://www.politico.com/
news/stories/0709/25072.html
Here's the ACU reply:
http://www.conservative.org/pressroom/2008/StatementfromACU.asp
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WTF?? This is a pay-for-play just like the Blago crap in Illinois.
I'm glad FedEx told them to go play with themselves. Why is the IRS not shutting down this sort of crap?
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There is no evidence that the ACU "cut a deal" with UPS. Hearing a Fed Ex official make such a statement without any proof whatsoever...is as dirty and dishonest as what the ACU tried to do.
And putting that kind of statement in your title "tints" your journalistic integrity.
Fed Ex changed the game 10 years ago when they bought RPS. If anything, Fed Ex is the one that has been getting special treatment for the past 10 years. If Fed Ex can't play by the same rules as the rest of the BIG BOYS...they should get out of the game.
And since Fred Smith has the audacity to threaten any public official that dares to vote against Fed Ex.......now "crying wolf" over the ACU incident is hypocritical on Fed Ex's part.
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