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CA: Lawmaker wants Toyotas out of the Capitol garage [Updated]
LA Times ^ | 2/4/10 | Marc Lifsher

Posted on 02/04/2010 9:46:12 AM PST by NormsRevenge

A state assemblyman who represents Toyota's North American headquarters in Torrance is so peeved by the automaker's safety problems and its recent decision to close a California plant that he's asking his colleagues to stop buying the Japanese-made hybrid cars.

Assembly Rules Committee Chairman Ted Lieu, who is running in June to be the Democratic Party's candidate for attorney general, said he plans to ask the committee on Thursday to reinstitute a "Buy-American" policy when purchasing pool vehicles that the house's 80 members use to get around Sacramento.

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"With the massive safety problems that Toyota is experiencing, I think it's an appropriate time to back to the Buy American policy,” Lieu said. That stricture was dropped in 2003 because many environmentally sensitive lawmakers wanted to drive low-emission, fuel-efficient Toyota Priuses, one of the few gas-electric hybrid vehicles available at that time.

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[Updated at 5:34 p.m.: Lieu's office reports that 87 of the 133 vehicles in the Assembly fleet are Toyota hybrids.]

(Excerpt) Read more at latimesblogs.latimes.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: ca; california; capitol; environmentalist; garage; green; toyota; toyotas

1 posted on 02/04/2010 9:46:12 AM PST by NormsRevenge
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environmentally sensitive lawmakers wanted their hybrids

Bolsheviks!


2 posted on 02/04/2010 9:47:09 AM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. Chuck DeVore - CA Senator. Believe.)
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To: NormsRevenge

Wonder if he’s peeved at all the GM recalls that go on without such fanfare and grandstanding.


3 posted on 02/04/2010 9:47:58 AM PST by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: NormsRevenge

Getting brave, aren’t they? Combinations of union power and government power are dangerous to liberty and have been for some time.


4 posted on 02/04/2010 9:50:35 AM PST by loveliberty2
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To: NormsRevenge

Hell I want to stop selling cars in california altogether. With idiots like this, we may just get our chance.


5 posted on 02/04/2010 9:51:37 AM PST by cripplecreek (Seniors, the new shovel ready project under socialized medicine.)
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To: Secret Agent Man; tx_eggman

i totally support the Buy American mantra... until my government forces me to...

Not to mention that they are now a major competitor of Toyota, and stand to gain market share for GM by driving Toyota’s reputation into the ground.


6 posted on 02/04/2010 9:52:32 AM PST by SpinnerWebb (mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves)
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To: NormsRevenge

...reinstitute a “Buy-American” policy when purchasing pool vehicles.

It’s a little late for California lawmakers to become pro-business. The barn door was left open too long.


7 posted on 02/04/2010 9:52:53 AM PST by Huskrrrr
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To: NormsRevenge

“...and its recent decision to close a California plant that he’s asking his colleagues to stop buying the Japanese-made hybrid cars.”

They moved production of some models from UAW in CA to non-union in TX. I’ll bet these clowns called them American made when they were produced in CA.


8 posted on 02/04/2010 9:53:15 AM PST by Darth Reardon (Im running for the US Senate for a simple reason, I want to win a Nobel Peace Prize - Rubio)
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To: NormsRevenge

The Priuses has brake problems and the others the gas pedal problems one way or the other your going to crash,what the heck it sells more cars engineering is a wonderful thing.


9 posted on 02/04/2010 9:55:20 AM PST by Vaduz
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To: NormsRevenge

real irony would be Ed Bagley Jr unexepectedly accelerating into a Hummer in his Prius.


10 posted on 02/04/2010 9:56:34 AM PST by WOBBLY BOB (ACORN:American Corruption for Obama Right Now)
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To: NormsRevenge
"Buy-American" policy when purchasing pool vehicles that the house's 80 members use to get around Sacramento.

How about the "Buy Nothing" policy? Is it too much to ask Assembly members to bring their own cars to Sacramento?

11 posted on 02/04/2010 10:00:48 AM PST by C19fan
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To: SpinnerWebb
they are now a major competitor of Toyota, and stand to gain market share for GM by driving Toyota’s reputation into the ground.

exhibit A as to why it's just WRONG for the gov't to own car companies.

12 posted on 02/04/2010 10:01:48 AM PST by xsmommy
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To: NormsRevenge

Wait didn’t Toyota mainly close the Calif plant because GM left them hanging with the entire facility?


13 posted on 02/04/2010 10:03:52 AM PST by federal
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To: NormsRevenge

Thanks for your support !


14 posted on 02/04/2010 10:07:18 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Impeachment !)
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To: Secret Agent Man

I want him out of my wallet. What does he think about that?


15 posted on 02/04/2010 11:02:30 AM PST by Skenderbej (No muhammadan practices his religion peacefully.)
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To: NormsRevenge

Perhaps this lawmaker is unaware that Blue Springs, Mississippi, is in the US.


16 posted on 02/04/2010 11:10:58 AM PST by Mr. Lucky
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To: NormsRevenge

Ted Lieu sounds as if he comes from an imported family.


17 posted on 02/04/2010 11:14:37 AM PST by Right Wing Assault (The Obama magic is fading.)
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