Bush Taps Business Exec for Safety Board

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A manufacturing trade association executive is President Bush's pick to be chairman of the Consumer Product Safety Commission. Democrats and consumer advocates on Thursday voiced concern that the nominee would be too beholden to business interests.

Bush nominated Michael Baroody, executive vice president of the National Association of Manufacturers, to head the commission charged with protecting the public from unreasonable risks of serious injury or death from more than 15,000 types of consumer products.

NAM President John Engler said Baroody will bring ''impartial judgment'' to the agency and will be an advocate for sound policy to enhance consumer safety. ''No one who knows Mike Baroody has ever questioned his commitment to fair play and, most importantly, good government,'' Engler said.

Janell Mayo Duncan, senior counsel for Consumers Union, the nonprofit publisher of Consumer Reports, said Baroody's ties to NAM prompted red flags at her organization. ''We're going to be asking Congress to carefully scrutinize his views,'' she said.

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Bush-Consumer-Safety.html

[MadMaddie]

1. Once again he picks someone from the industry that obviously

has bias towards corporations not the American citizen....Brownie anyone?

[Erika]

3. W used oil people to make our energy policy

He's screwing the citizen and consumer every time he can.

[MadMaddie]

4. Don't forget about the Coal Industry he picked a Coal lobbyist

to head up the safety of mines and look where it's gotten our coal miners...

[Erika]

5. And the antichoice/anti birth control guy to head Women's Health

[MadMaddie]

6. The list is never ending...and the neocon sheeple just gobble it

up....and they are getting kicked in the face everyday...I don't get it.

[kurth]

2. The Fox Guarding the Henhouse

per BushCo standard operating procedure.