Boeing halts gift to GOP group

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Just goes to show. Don't bite the hand that feeds you.

Boeing is canceling a $2,500 payment to a Republican legislative campaign group after the group sent out fliers targeting lawmakers who voted to increase the gas tax last year.
The Leadership Council, one of the political-action committees of Senate Republicans, paid for mailers criticizing two Democrats who supported the nickel gas-tax increase.

Boeing and other large companies had lobbied for the tax increase as part of a package of measures aimed at fixing the state's transportation problems.

In an exchange with business executives Friday in Vancouver, Wash., Boeing Vice President Bob Watt said the company decided to withhold the $2,500 installment to The Leadership Council to express Boeing's dismay with the Republican ads. Watt would not provide further comment yesterday.

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