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Cybergal · **^ Top** #1 12.15.2008

Public Citizen president steps down
12/15/08

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WASHINGTON -- She was like a nail stuck in the trucking industry's tire tread.
Joan Claybrook, longtime safety and consumer advocate, announced last week she is stepping down as president of special interest group, Public Citizen, on Jan. 31, 2009.
In her 27-year tenure, Claybrook said in a statement, among other things, the expansion of dangerous triple-trailer trucks was stopped, limiting their operation to about a dozen, mostly western, states.
More >> http://www.todaystrucking.com/news.cfm?intDocID=20898

heyns57 · **^ Top** #2 12.15.2008

I'm glad she is stepping down, but Public Citizen will continue to use the court system against business and industry in our country. She came close to decimating the productivity and service capabilities of the trucking industry with emotional hype in the face of facts and statistics.

Public Citizen is part of the Ralph Nader "public interest" lobbying empire, which an article in Fortune Magazine back 1990 estimated to be a $120 million per year operation.

rikdev50s · **^ Top** #3 12.15.2008

I'm glad she is stepping down. I don't know if it will change the way PC will do business, as she is staying around to help find her replacement...

I would think they would still ignore the facts and continue with the emotional angle as usual.

Working Class Patriot · **^ Top** #4 12.15.2008

Good-bye and take the rest of %^%$##$%%$# with you too Joan.....

rikdev50s · **^ Top** #5 12.15.2008

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Originally Posted by Ron-MARS Trucking

Good-bye and take the rest of %^%$##$%%$# with you too Joan.....

Did You mean trash??? LOL It would be a good thing if they all just went away but hey this is not a fairy tail we live in...

Working Class Patriot · **^ Top** #6 12.15.2008

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Originally Posted by rikdev50s

Did You mean trash??? LOL It would be a good thing if they all just went away but hey this is not a fairy tail we live in...

"Trash" is much better of a word than I'm willing to describe these idiots.

RickG · **^ Top** #7 12.15.2008

Her resigning when Obama is making political appointments makes me nervous . Surely she is not just making herself available for a DOT position .

Working Class Patriot · **^ Top** #8 12.15.2008

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Originally Posted by RickG

Her resigning when Obama is making political appointments makes me nervous . Surely she is not just making herself available for a DOT position .

Now you got my blood boiling....we don't need Mary Peters redux.....

LoneSnake · **^ Top** #9 12.15.2008

Who is this evil person that you all speak of, because I have never heard of these peeps

Roadmedic · **^ Top** #10 12.15.2008

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Originally Posted by Ron-MARS Trucking

Now you got my blood boiling....we don't need Mary Peters redux.....

She might be worse.

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