Alabama senator sends scathing letter to Boeing chairman
In a letter to Boeing Chairman James McNerney, Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) urged the company’s top official to express disapproval of “offensive remarks” about Mobile, Ala., made recently by some Boeing representatives.

Amid cutthroat competition for the Air Force’s new mid-air refueling tankers, Boeing officials said last week at an Air Force Association conference that Mobile could be a risky site for building the aircraft.

“To publicly assert that Mobile, Ala., is a risky choice to build the new Air Force tanker is ignorant and completely unfounded,” Shelby wrote to McNerney on Oct. 3. “Mobile has a proven track record of establishing world-class manufacturing operations.”