NEWS RELEASE

OCTOBER 25, 2007
New Information Further Implicates George Dunbar In Wright Industries' Bankruptcy
Former Worker Details Company's Hardships
A recent filing in the bankruptcy proceedings of Wright Industries further implicates Republican county commissioner candidate George Dunbar in the company's collapse (U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Western District of Pennsylvania, no. 07-21384). And now a former worker is explaining the hardships he and his coworkers endured. An October 16, 2007, motion in U.S. Bankruptcy Court by the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors details the debts. In the filing it cites a net loss of $3.7 million that was realized in 2006 "because of improper accounting treatment in prior years."George Dunbar served as Chief Financial Officer of Wright Industries in the years shortly before its bankruptcy. The filings reveal sorry details about the state of the company in the run-up to its bankruptcy, including local, state and federal taxes, as well as unemployment taxes, that were not paid during Dunbar's watch as CFO. The bankruptcy also reveals that Wright Industries did not pay healthcare or pension contributions for its labor unions.As a candidate, George Dunbar has tried to duck any responsibility for the company's failure."I knew George Dunbar, and even talked with him one-on-one, while I was at Wright Industries," said Bert Guay, who worked at Wright Industries from 2000-2007 as a laborer and foreman, and also served as shop steward for the Laborers' Union Local 1058. "As a worker there we were working just as hard, nothing changed with us, then all of the sudden the money just dried up."We would go to cash our paychecks and they would bounce, and sometimes we would show up at work and not get paid at all. And because they weren't paying our benefits, we would be denied when we went to pick up a prescription at the pharmacy."Now George Dunbar wants to be a county commissioner? He sure didn't do his job for us at Wright Industries," Guay said."It’s time for George Dunbar to finally come clean about his role in Wright Industries' bankruptcy," Commissioner Tom Balya said. "We cannot allow him to continue to deceive voters the way he deceived the families he abandoned at Wright Industries.""As more details continue to emerge from this case, it is becoming more and more obvious that George Dunbar's campaign is as bankrupt as Wright Industries," Commissioner Tom Ceraso said