[CPEO-IRF] "Moving's no pleasure ..."

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Moving's no pleasure to BRAC-hit workers

By PATRICIA C. McCARTER
Huntsville Times (AL)
June 26, 2005

Defense employees in Virginia may not follow their jobs to Huntsville

ARLINGTON, Va. - Nothing against Huntsville, but defense workers in 
Virginia don't want to move here.

They don't want to move anywhere.

At least that's the contention of two Virginia congressmen dead set on 
fighting the Base Realignment and Closure Commission's recommendation 
that would take 30,000 jobs outside the Beltway of Washington, D.C. 
Several thousand contractors would also be disrupted.

At a Monday town meeting in Arlington called by Democratic Rep. James 
Moran Jr. and Republican Rep. Thomas M. Davis III, hundreds of 
Department of Defense workers protested their jobs moving to Alabama, 
Texas, Kentucky and beyond. One man was quoted in The Washington Post as 
saying he'd flip burgers before he moved or commuted even to Bethesda, 
Md., just 10 miles from Arlington, where BRAC has suggested his office move.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.al.com/news/huntsvilletimes/index.ssf?/base/news/1119777335177151.xml&coll=1

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
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