What a foolish woman. Alabama aerospace and defense industry follows only behind Texas and Florida. The very rocket that put man on the moon was developed here. I'm so mad at this little hoity-toity fruitcake that I could spit nails.
Paully, no offense to you, but your senator is a buffoon.
Here's my email to her:
Senator Murray,
You obviously never open your eyes between Washington state and Washington, D.C. Alabama has been in the "building business" for many years. Let me list a few notables for you.
*1910 The Wright Brothers, who invented the airplane as you might have heard, established the first ever civilian flight school in Montgomgery, Alabama.
*1950's Wehrner Von Braun moves to Huntsville, Alabama and spends the next 20 years developing the Saturn V which landed the first men on the moon.
*1990 Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville controls the deployment of the Hubble Space Telescope.
*1998 Boeing builds the largest, most modern rocket factory in the world in Decatur, Alabama.
*2003 Aerospace in Alabama employs 139,000 people with payroll of $6.16 billion. Real jobs, real people building really sophisticated, cutting edge things that fly, Senator. People getting paid to produce something. You know, doing work that liberals don't want done.
*And through 2011, the U.S. Army is relocating headquarters for the Army Materiel Command, Space & Missile Defense Command, and Security Assistance Command to Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville (that little place you probably never knew existed that is responsible for your constituents even having a place for you to do a photo-op "on the line").
I also find it telling that your drop-down menu for Topic choices has no entry for "Military".
If you are from Alabama (now or in the past) and want to put "soccer mom" Patty Murray in her place, help me do that and send her an invitation to shove it where the sun don't shine.
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