By Steve Alexander Reporter
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Published: Wed, July 30, 2008 - 7:17 pm
Steve Alexander
This time it comes from a grass roots group here in the city.
Four people who live in Mobile have formed a non-profit group called "Alabamians to Build American Tankers."
The group has bought advertisements to run on radio stations in Washington D.C., right where members of Congress can hear them.
Here are some excerpts from the advertisements:
----"It appears that Boeing's cooperate policy is if Boeing can't win, no one can. And that means our troops lose."
----"Boeing claims military technology will wind up overseas. Boeing is one to talk. Last February, their engineer was arrested for sending trade secrets to communist China."
----"The reason we're still trying to replace our aging re-fueling tankers is because Boeing executives were involved in a scandal of bribery and cheating in the last bid."
Bryan Lee, one of the members of the group, said, "It was just time to answer some of the questions that Boeing has raised and the untruthfulness that they're putting out there. It was time to tell the truth from Mobile's side."
The advertisements are scheduled to start airing in Washington later this week.
News Five has tried to contact Boeing officials for reaction, but haven't heard from them as of yet.
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good morning carl, i do not think they can convert me to a boeing all american “wink wink” person. qudjy1, has anybody told you boeing lost the bid. but not to worry with the boeing appeals the airforce will be flying the present tankers for at least another 50 years. i just love how they forget the fact boeing lost. the AIRFORCE chose airbus. oh well, lets just forget the bidding and award the tanker deal to boeing. lets bring russia, china (some of our best friends) in on national security.