Insurance Commissioner Candidate Padilla Commends Tesla For Dropping Downey Development

Date: Sat, May 22, 2010 at 9:31 AM
Subject: Insurance Commissioner Candidate Padilla Commends Tesla For Dropping Plans To Build At Downey-Call For Poizner To Pursue Criminal Fraud Charges Against Lichter
To: Padilla Dina

Insurance Commissioner Candidate Padilla Commends Tesla For Dropping Plans To Build At Downey-Call For Poizner To Pursue Criminal Fraud Charges Against Lichter

California Insurance Commissioner candidate Dina Padilla commended Tesla Electric Motors Inc. for it's decision not to build a government
subsidized electric car plant at the contaminated toxic dump site in Downey, California. "As you are aware Downey developer Stuart Lichter sued
me for publicizing the ongoing health and safety problems of workers at the Downey Movie Studios and the Kaiser Downey Hospital."
"I think Tesla recognized that it would be doing a disservice to their own workers to build on a site where there is a continuing problem of illnesses
caused by the failure of developer Stuart Lichter to properly clean up the site."
Padilla also is demanding that "Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner pursue criminal insurance fraud charges against developer Stuart Lichter for seeking
to limit illegally limit his insurance liability by shifting healthcare costs to other employers and the Federal government."
This is also a sign that the Stuart Lichter IRG empire is in trouble. Lichter has been seeking to get out of Downey so he can do damage control for his cover-up
of his failure to properly clean up the site. Injured workers continue to fight for their healthcare and benefits both at the Downey Studios and the Kaiser Downey Health
complex.
Padilla also called for the new plant in Fremont at the joint venture with Toyota to hire union labor with wages and benefits comparable to UAW NUMMI workers. Tesla has
received a $465 million Department of Energy Loan to assemble their electric cars and it requires that they pay prevailing wages of similar workers in the state. Although the
UAW organized NUMMI plant has been shutdown, the workers should be rehired and paid similar wages and benefits with the full right to unionization.
For information on the lawsuit that Stuart Lichter lost against Dina Padilla
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/11/16/18628893.php
For further information on Dina Padilla campaign for California Insurance Commissioner go to
http://www.padilla4insurancecommissioner.com