Call your Senator: Urge them to support FEINSTIEN - no private ports.

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U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein said Tuesday it was fortunate that California's major ports are run differently than the six big ports on the East and Gulf coasts embroiled in controversy over whether their shipping operations should be taken over by a state-owned business in the United Arab Emirates.

"My reaction is that it is a mistake to let ports be privately owned, period," the California Democrat said during a news conference in San Diego.

Feinstein was asked her view on the sale of London-based Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Co. to Dubai Ports World. Approved by the Bush administration and expected to be completed soon, it would put Dubai Ports in charge of shipping operations in New York, New Jersey, Baltimore, New Orleans, Miami and Philadelphia

Feinstein said she was familiar with port operations because of her nine years as mayor of San Francisco.

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1. She is 100 % right - The ports should not be operated by private entities.