DNC truck ad in Memphis and suspicions about the so-called turnover.

[madfloridian]

http://www.democrats.org/a/2006/03/dnc_billboard_a.php

Washington, DC - Democrats in Memphis, Tennessee, are unveiling a mobile billboard today calling on national Republicans, who are in town for a conference, to answer why they have stood in the way of improving our port security, and why they stood in the way of Democratic efforts to stop outsourcing the operation of our nation's ports.

The event comes as the AP reports that despite yesterday's news that Dubai Ports World would withdraw from the controversial ports deal the Bush Administration approved, it actually finalized the $6.8 billion takeover the very same day. An NPR report today also confirms that the foreign government-owned DP World is not only the official owner of the company that runs the ports, but that the company's statement never actually committed to selling its assets, and even if it did, "selling a terminal operation can take months." "