FedExcess

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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UPS released the following statement on Friday addressing the Politico story last week about FedEx “ratting out” the American Conservative Union (ACU) over a mistaken belief that the ACU had changed its position on the amendment of a bill FedEx is trying to kill that would place its drivers under the same labor law as UPS’s drivers. The UPS statement:
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In response to the Politico story about the confidential American Conservative Union (ACU) proposal which FedEx released to the public in a corporate temper-tantrum last week, ACU sent out the following response on Friday….
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The following is the full proposal submitted by the American Conservative Union (ACU) to FedEx in response to what almost certainly was a FedEx request to access the ACU’s extensive nationwide list of conservatives hoping to enlist them in opposition to legislation which would put the company on an equal footing with UPS in the package delivery industry.

Here’s ACU’s proposal. Additional commentary on this matter to follow:
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In response to that coalition letter from a half-dozen prominent conservative leaders objecting to FedEx’s false and misleading lobbying campaign in which it claims UPS is seeking a government bailout, FedEx has turned on one of the signers of the letter – the American Conservative Union – like a cornered rat.
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A group of prominent national conservatives inked a letter to FedEx Chairman Fred Smith last week, objecting to his company’s misleading advertising/lobbying campaign in which UPS is accused of seeking a government “bailout” by supporting an amendment to a bill which would place FedEx Express’s delivery drivers under the same labor law as UPS’s delivery drivers.
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Do not get me or this website wrong. I have nothing personal against FedEx. In fact, I continue to use the company on occasion, as I do the post office – but only because the monopoly the post office enjoys over first class mail gives me no other choice.
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Kevin L. Kearns, president of the U.S. Business and Industry Council – certainly anything but a “shill” for UPS – lays out the argument for changing existing law so that FedEx Express drivers are treated the same as express drivers for every other company in a column appearing today in the Atlanta Journal Constitution. Some highlights:
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A few weeks ago, the anonymous hired guns who run FedEx’s disingenuous anti-UPS website released the results of a “poll” which purportedly shows that a majority of Americans support the notion of treating FedEx differently under the law from every other similar company in the country.
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Someone using the fake name “Brown Bailout” – remember, hired guns who attack UPS never use their real names – recently emailed me the following:
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