Metrolink crash victims want Dianne Feinstein and Congress to raise ceiling on damages

By Jim Campbell

Doubtless Senator Dianne Feinstein is not in touch with the fact that many of her California constitutions believe her to be aloof, and uncaring unless she is pandering to the environmentalists, the GBLT community, and anyone who donates to her reelection.

This would seem to have been a very important meeting to those that suffered serious injuries and the family’s of those who died during this horrible tragedy. 

Can Feinstein be bothered?  Of course not, she send a “field representative,” Molly O’Brien to listen to their concerns. 

Of course the 79-year-old senator hoping to retain her ceremonial seat in the United States will send out one of her boiler plate non descript letters telling each of the victims that she will “look into the matter as she deliberates on any pending legislation. 

Fifty-nine percent of California voters are against Feinstein’s Folly

This year California voters will be telling the aging Feinstein, that they have her number, and it’s love affaire with rasing taxes that has driven businesses and jobs from the state.  They also see the boondoggle associated with putting in a bullet train to nowhere as California is hemorrhaging red ink.

By Dan Weikel

Los Angeles Times

Victims of the 2008 Metrolink crash in Chatsworth told an aide to U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein on Friday that they were disappointed in Congress’ failure to increase a railroad liability cap that left them inadequately compensated for their injuries and financial losses.

About 20 victims and relatives of those killed in the collision with a Union Pacific freight train met privately at the Simi Valley Library with Molly O’Brien, a field representative for the Democratic senator from California. Several met with reporters afterward.

A Metrolink train and a freight train crash into each other in Chatsworth in 2008. (Lawerence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times / July 27, 2012)

For more than an hour, they told how they’ve expressed their extreme frustration with elected officials and asked that Feinstein press Congress to raise the limit on how much money railroads can be compelled to pay in damages to accident victims and their families. They also demanded that they be able to testify before federal lawmakers.

“Words cannot express what this has done to my spirit,” said Jeanette Noble, 56, of Camarillo, whose father, Dennis Arnold, was killed in the crash. “Government is supposed to protect the people, not corporations that act negligently. People were maimed and killed on their own soil by a foreign company.”  See entire LA Times Article below.