FedExcess

It’s a new year, but the same old FedEx disinformation campaign. Here’s what the anonymous writers for the “Brown Bailout” project wrote on Tuesday:
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Turns out the Albuquerque (NM) Chamber of Commerce did, in fact, issue a written position paper siding with FedEx Express in that company’s effort to retain a corporate welfare subsidy from the federal government which gives it a competitive advantage over its rivals in the express package delivery biz.
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FedEx’s ghost-writers over at BrownBailout.com issued a breathless news release yesterday titled “Senate Extends FAA Funding Authorization; Does Not Contain UPS Bailout Provision,” and which began:
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FedEx continued its “Brown Bailout” disinformation campaign on Friday with an email claiming the Albuquerque Chamber of Commerce has taken its side on the issue of leveling the playing field with UPS by subjecting FedEx Express’ package delivery drivers to the same labor laws as UPS’ package delivery drivers.

“The Greater Albuquerque Chamber of Commerce, one of New Mexico’s leading business organizations, yesterday came out in support of FedEx’s efforts to preserve its labor regulation and opposed UPS’ attempt to receive a legislative bailout,” FedEx ghost-wrote in the new “Brown Bailout” email. “The Chamber agrees that Congress should leave what is working well alone as FedEx Express continues to promote ‘cost-effective and quality service.’”

Couple of problems here:
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In a column published in the October 2009 issue of Reason magazine, Veronique de Rugy writes:
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Representatives of FedEx and UPS squared off in what has been reported as their first head-to-head debate in New Mexico this week at an Albuquerque Chamber of Commerce meeting. The argument was over a bill pending Senate action which would put FedEx’s delivery drivers under the same U.S. labor law as all other delivery drivers in the United States.
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In the most recent edition of FedEx’s absurdly misnamed “The Brown Bailout Newsletter,” the company’s ghost-writer asks:
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The United States Senate is considering a proposal, embedded within the FAA reauthorization bill, which would place FedEx Express’s package delivery drivers under the same labor law as every other package delivery driver in the country.
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The following letter-to-the-editor by Bob Lekites, President of UPS Airlines, appeared in today’s Louisville (KY) Journal:
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David Keene, Chairman of the American Conservative Union, unleashed today on last week’s Politico story accusing the longtime conservative organization of “selling” it’s position on a legislative issue. His written statement follows:
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