Bush to Appoint Anti-Consumer Zealot to Consumer Safety Commission

[nosmokes]

this Baroody is a real gem. when he was Prez of the nat'l ASSoc of manufacturers he was a global waeming denier, defended tire makers who covered up evidence that their shoddy production caused the deaths of over 500 folks and went to bat for the asbestos industry, just to name a few of his pasttimes. and now he's supposed to run a consumer watchdog group in the government. that's like putting someone who judged show ponies in charge of the agency that deals w/ disasters. oh.
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President Bush About to Appoint Anti-Consumer Zealot as Chairman of the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC)

* No Cronies in Our Federal Agencies, Please
Generation Green, Mar 27, 2007

Once again, the President wants to put a person with clear industry allegiances in charge of a government body intended to safeguard the public interest. On March 1, 2007, President Bush nominated Michael Baroody as chairman of the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC).

Why should you be concerned? For one, because Baroody is a senior executive with the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), a trade group that regularly opposes product safety regulation and pollution prevention laws. NAM has gone so far as to call for weakening the CPSC, an organization that exists to keep manufacturers from selling products that put us and our families at risk. And now President Bush wants to put Baroody in charge of the very organization Baroody wants to weaken. Once again, Bush is asking us to allow a fox to guard the henhouse.

Given the recent Associated Press expose of CPSC's cover-up on risks to children from vinyl lunchboxes, Baroody's appointment is even more worrisome.

During his tenure at NAM, Baroody has led opposition to laws that protect children and the public from unsafe products and toxic health threats, including:

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[madinmaryland]

1. Does this position have to approved by Congress?

[robinlynne]

3. my question exactly.

[Firespirit]

6. I think so

I think the Commerce Committee looks at it.

Here is a link to the testimony of a previous nominee.

[Elwood P Dowd]

5. Yes it does. (nm)

(nm)

[madinmaryland]

9. Then it is time for Congress to step up and block this nominee!

[SteppingRazor]

2. You mean sort of like nominating a UN ambassador who was against the UN?

Or putting a lumber-industry lobbyist in charge of the forestry service?
Or putting a coal-mine lobbyist in charge of mine safety?
Or putting an energy-industry lawyer who once argued for corporations' "right to pollute" in charge of the Dept. of the Interior?
Jeez, but I could go on...

[benld74]

4. BULLSHIT!

[ComerPerro]

7. typical asshole move by Bush

[Firespirit]

8. Contact these senators about it

http://commerce.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=About.Members

Democrats
Chairman Daniel K. Inouye (HI)
John D. Rockefeller, IV (WV)
John F. Kerry (MA)
Byron L. Dorgan (ND)
Barbara Boxer (CA)
Bill Nelson (FL)
Maria Cantwell (WA)
Frank R. Lautenberg (NJ)
Mark Pryor (AR)
Thomas Carper (DE)
Claire McCaskill (MO)
Amy Klobuchar (MN)

Republicans
Vice Chairman Ted Stevens (AK)
John McCain (AZ)
Trent Lott (MS)
Kay Bailey Hutchison (TX)
Olympia J. Snowe (ME)
Gordon H. Smith (OR)
John Ensign (NV)
John E. Sununu (NH)
Jim DeMint (SC)
David Vitter (LA)
John Thune (SD)

[Rob H.]

10. I swear, the world gets closer to "The Onion" every day.

It's like they have a checklist! "Hates the agency they'll be working for and/or once lobbied actively against it? Check. Blindly loyal, even in the face of overwhelming dishonesty and possible criminal activity on the part of their future masters? Check. Completely unqualified for the task at hand? Check. We got a live one!"

:banghead:

[nicknameless]

11. K&R