Stonecipher's Visit Takes On Higher Profile (Boeing Wichita Sale)

[hatrack]

"Kansas political leaders will talk to Boeing Co.' s top executive today about a possible sale of its Wichita plant that a Seattle newspaper says is under consideration and that Wall Street analysts say would make sense.

Before a trip to Wichita late today, Boeing chief executive Harry Stonecipher is scheduled to speak by telephone with Sens. Pat Roberts and Sam Brownback, Rep. Todd Tiahrt and Gov. Kathleen Sebelius.

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Boeing officials are mum about whether the company wants to sell the sprawling, 75-year-old Wichita factory -- its second-largest commercial aircraft plant. Wall Street analysts agreed Monday that such a sale is plausible. Some said it was likely, and one even called it inevitable.

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Raytheon Aircraft has made it clear that by 2006 it wants to do only the final assembly of its aircraft. It is currently working on sending its wire-harness work to a company in Mexico. Cessna Aircraft also has said it is studying whether to send more work outside its plant."

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http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/7805345.htm

[Fovea]

1. This will cripple the Republican party

in Kansas, perhaps for a generation.
This is going to hit Kansas like a bomb.
Southeast Kansas built its economy on Boeing.
Wichita will be a ghost town.

If Brownback and Roberts cannot stop this,
they, and the state government who gave
everything Boeing wanted without any
any reciprocal guarantees, are outta here.

This will sit badly on top of the Westar scandal.
I have no idea what South Kansas is going to do.

[SoCalDem]

2. Of course they now have a Dem governor, so watch them

dump this into HER lap.. The party of personal rsponsibility wants none of it if it's for bad stuff happening:eyes: