ROB FIELD Flacking for HEATHER BEAVEN -- Both would have public ignore lithium battery safety issues on aircraft

Usually, it's Democrats who want to regulate safety and Republicans who want legislative loopholes big enough to smash a Mack truck through them.

As he does once every ten years or so (the last time was on Glass-Steagall repeal), Congressman JOHN LUIGI MICA spoke out in favor of regulating something. Good for him. MICA spoke his truth about exothermic, fire-prone lithium batteries on aircraft. HEATHER BEAVEN attacked him, with ROB FIELD flacking for her, talking about how few incidents there are where there are fires. This is what a non-serious Congressional candidate dared to say about airplane fire safety:
NEW VIDEO: JOHN MICA’S ARCHAIC IDEAS ARE OUT OF STEP WITH THE MODERN WORLD

While our families await help from Congress to spur job creation in Florida, John Mica introduced legislation prohibiting lithium batteries on airplanes. This would ban cell phones, laptops and I-pods on commercial airplane flights in America. If John Mica is successful, this would greatly harm large and small business communication. Clearly John Mica is not only out of touch with today's business traveler, he does not understand today's world. In the 20th century, we could "unplug" for days but that just isn't how the world works today.

Even his fellow Republicans in Congress disagree with John Mica on his legislation. They know that Mica's legislation would further depress innovation and job creation.

Click here to watch Mica's comments on banning laptops, cell phones and lithium batteries on commercial airplanes.

http://www.beavenforcongress.com/newsletter/BFCEmail11-24-09a.htm

HEATHER BEAVEN is a low-blow, cheap shot artist who does not research issues.
She emotes. She does not deserve our votes.

As the article below states, "DOT said that "more than 40 air transport-related incidents involving lithium batteries and devices powered by lithium batteries have been identified" since 1991, adding that "many of these incidents were directly related to the lack of awareness of the regulations, risks and required safety measures applicable."

HEATHER BEAVEN sounds ageist and haughty, as if she caught MICA doing something naughty. While MICA is out of touch on many issues, airplane fire safety is not one of them.

During the 1990s, I assisted a fireman whistleblower when USAF took his security clearance for reporting fire safety concerns on the new Air Force One under construction. I also helped a NASA contractor space flight hardware designer raise concerns about exothermic materials on board the Space Shuttles. Knowing about air safety and exothermic chemical reactions (and what can happen), I reckon I know better than ROB FIELD and HEATHER BEAVEN this issue needs.

Good science. Fidelity to safety standards. Expertise.

Not BEAVEN's flippant excuses for "debate" from someone who's never debated MICA.

Not publicity-hogging nostrums by someone who has no pertinent expertise.

In Congress, there are "work horses" and "show horses."

Sadly, it seems that HEATHER BEAVEN would not be a "work horse" -- she would be a show horse, all hat and no cattle.

In their lust to land a nice gig on Capitol Hill, some Democratic lightweights are willing to lie about JOHN MICA (or even other Democrats).

In particular, noisome ex-MALLOY flack ROB FIELD is despicable, having falsely accused Faye Armitage of noncompliance with the Federal Election Commission filing requirements. ROB FIELD is neither a scholar or a gentleman. False reports are torts and crimes. They should be treated as such.

Thanks for nothing to ROB FIELD and HEATHER BEAVEN.

Thanks and a tip of the hat to Faye Armitage for running for Congress and earning nearly 150,000 votes after spending only some $32,000.

Faye Armitage hasn't raised a lot of money for 2010 yet (not even enough to trigger FEC reporting requirements ROB FIELD couldn't begin to understand).

Faye Armitage is in no hurry to sell her soul, and she won't.

But Faye Armitage has something special -- the respect of Democrats throughout the Seventh Congressional District, who know the difference between sincerity and hypocrisy.

Is HEATHER BEAVEN a "spoiler" because she came out of nowhere to run for Congress as a Stealth candidate, one who won't study before opining and one who has no principled reason why we should run anyone else other than the courageous lady who got nearly 150,000 votes last year running against JOHN LUIGI MICA?

Like Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy, some consultants and candidates resemble a ventriloquist act.

To ROB FIELDS and HEATHER BEAVEN: "hypocrisy is the compliment that vice pays to virtue."