Obama's FAA Trying To Extort Money From EAA

The EAA is the largest airshow in the United States and is held in Oshkosh, WI.  For 2 weeks, Whitmann Field is the busiest airport int he world and now the FAA is trying to extort $500,000 from the EAA.
From the Northwestern: Federal aviation officials “demanded” $500,000 from the Experimental Aircraft Association for air traffic control expenses during its AirVenture convention next month or threatened to pull support for the event, EAA officials said Tuesday.
EAA Chairman Jack Pelton said the FAA’s demand for a contract and advance payment is akin to holding the organization hostage in exchange for air traffic services necessary to keep the event safe. The week-long air show draws thousands to Oshkosh during the last week of July each year at Wittman Regional Airport, whose air traffic control tower boasts of being the world’s busiest during the convention.
“We’re being held hostage,” Pelton told Oshkosh Northwestern Media. “They told us point blank ‘If you want to have our support for the event, which you need, you have to sign the contract and write a check.’”
Pelton said there will be an AirVenture 2013 even if EAA has to pay the fee, but said the association worries about the impact on general aviation and other air shows across the country if the request stands. Officials from the FAA’s Great Lakes Region did not immediately return a phone call seeking comment for this story.
FAA controllers staff the tower at Wittman Regional Airport during the convention that brings thousands of aircraft each summer. During the rest of the year, the agency contracts with a private firm to staff tower operations at the airport.  http://www.thenorthwestern.com/article/20130604/OSH0101/306040330/FAA-demands-500-000-tower-staffing-expenses-AirVenture-convention?nclick_check=1
This is the FAA's job and they get money from fuel fees and other fees for the convention.  I wish the EAA could just go out and hire the air traffic controllers instead of dealing the thugs from Obama's FAA.
It's just another case of the Obama administration trying to hurt a local economy in a conservsative area of the State of Wisconsin.