Mom confronts Mattel

I saw this woman on the news, and I just wanted to slap her. "They" shouldn't let this happen, she says. I wanted to scream: "Who did you vote for? Did you even vote?" "They" is US. We've chosen a government that has done everything it can to remove all barriers to free market capitalism and this is what you get as the result. When the administration allows the FDA and other regulatory agencies to wither, this is what happens. Wake up! If you want to be protected, choose a government that values protecting you instead of just corporate profits. Oh yeah, and quit buying so much crap for your kids. Go to the park, read a book. No lead paint in those.

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Aug. 23, 2007
Mom Confronts Mattel at Corporate HQ Over Toy Recall
By Sid Garcia

EL SEGUNDO, (KABC-TV) - She was worried her children's toys could be tainted, so a local mom took action and took on giant toymaker Mattel.

Scared and angry about possibly dangerous amounts of lead in her children's toys, a mother has taken her concerns directly to toy-making giant Mattel.

The Westchester mom tells us she has a 2-and-a-half-year-old daughter, a 13-month-old son, a house to run. She asks, When are you supposed to have time to go to the Web site and check out the lengthy list of recalled toys? Out of frustration, she packed up the family and the toys and came to Mattel seeking action. She got it.

When it comes to her children's toys, Dana Parker, like other parents, just wants them to be safe. So when she heard Mattel's CEO last week talk about toys with tainted lead paint being recalled, she declared that was it. So she packed a suitcase and some plastic trash bags with the kids' Fisher-Price and Mattel toys, put them, her two kids, and mom in the car and drove straight to Mattel's El Segundo headquarters.