From al.com:

U.S. Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., made the comments on National Public Radio in an interview on the Air Force tanker competition. She said Boeing should be favored for the tanker contract because of its airplane-building experience in Washington state.

“I have stood on the line in Everett, Washington, where we have thousands of workers who go to work every day to build these planes,” Murray said in a Dec. 7 story posted on NPR.org. “I would challenge anybody to tell me that they’ve stood on a line in Alabama and seen anybody building anything.”

Lt. Gov. Jim Folsom, the state’s top elected Democrat, fired off a letter to Murray in which he reeled off examples of the state’s industrial accomplishments.

“I have personally stood ‘on the line’ in Alabama and watched hundreds of products being manufactured,” Folsom wrote. “I remain hopeful that in the near future, I will also ‘stand on the line’ and watch the military’s new refueling tanker be manufactured here.”

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