Congressional Sac Candidate Dina Padilla Sued By Multi-Millionaire Toxic Site De

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8/10/2008

Bay Area Indymedia - San Francisco,CA*

Issued By Dina Padilla Campaign

http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/08/10/18524717.php

Sacramento US Congressional Candidate Dina Padilla, Injured Workers

and Web Site Developer Vicki Sued by Multi-millionaire

Developer In Southern California

Dina Padilla, the Peace and Freedom party candidate for Congress in

California Congressional District #3 has been sued along with Downey

injured workers, Kaiser papers website developer Vicki and

1,000 other Does by the Downey Brownfield toxic site developer

Stuart Lichter. Candidate Padilla has made a large part of her

campaign the issue of cost shifting of injured workers healthcare

costs by self insured employers and the insurance industry. Lichter

who formerly worked for the Federal GSA has been developing highly

toxic sites without properly cleaning them up. As a result. workers

at the Downey site in Southern California have become sick from

fungus and other toxic material.

Candidate Padilla has charged that Lichter and other insurance

companies with refusing to take care of the healthcare costs of

injured workers are are shifting the costs to the Federal government

through SSI and other public agencies. Padilla has charged that her

opponent Republican Congressman Dan Lundgren has refused to

investigate this cost shifting and growing environmental crisis not

only at the Downey toxic site but also the Bell case at

Agraquest in , California. Bell was infected with fungus and

bacteria at the Agraquest site which was owned by former Monsanto

pesticide researcher Pam Marrone.

The privatized Downey brownfield site also include a Kaiser Hospital

complex is a highly toxic site that had radioactive material, highly

toxic material from dumping by NASA and Boeing. It has been a

military industrial complex since 1927 and is one of the oldest

military toxic sites in the country.

Movie industry workers at Dreamworkers, Downey Studios have become

sickened by these highly toxic sites and now have fungus infections,

severe headaches, rashes and other afflictions. Also injured Kaiser

worker Gail Shephard has been fighting for her healthcare at the

Kaiser Downey hospital site.

More information can be found out about these issues at

http://dinapadillaforcongress.com/

http://www.kaiserpapers.org

http://www.workersmemorialday.org