Contract for Green Line Cars
How apropos that one day after General Motors announces that it will be forced to eliminate 74,000 jobs, the Los Angeles County Transportation Commission voted to award Sumitomo Corp. a contract to build trolley cars for the proposed new Green Line. Morrison-Knudsen, an American company, was the loser.
Even more galling in this sell-America-down-the-tube ploy was the role played by none other than our former California governor, George Deukmejian, who is now a lobbyist for Sumitomo.
Gee, Duke, if enough California workers are thrown out of work, who will pay those big fat state pensions you’re collecting from your years as a public servant? But I guess being a lobbyist for a Japanese company is undoubtedly more lucrative than being governor.
DIXIE B. GROSSMAN, West Hills
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