Did Chrysler play politics with dealer closings?

[del]

They should be targeted for shutters for political reasons, instead of being prosecuted if any laws were broken?

You're going on record as approving of this?

She believes corporatism can be benevolent. GE is clean as the wind driven snow, to hear her tell, while Halluburton is not. Halliburton, bad. GE, good.

Yup. Has Halliburton ever reimbursed the DoD for all those cost overruns? The double-billings? The fraud? The damaged equipment due to sheer negligence? How often has GE tried to screw the government, just because it could...

every chance it got, like everyone else.
jeebus

 

[WillowTree]

Wouldn't it have been neat if just ONE dealer who was a big Obama donor got closed down?




But, none did. In fact, one was massively helped, most all his competition was closed down!





Can you not smell that rot?

I don't think they can smell rot through donkeyshit!

 

[Nik]

FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right: News Flash: Car Dealers are Republicans (It's Called a Control Group, People)

But keep up with the conspiracy theories. Its fun to watch you all run around and freak out about imaginary shit.

Fuzzy, careless and sloppy math doesn't help your case. Did you really read what you linked?

Careless and sloppy math?

Lmao. What exactly is careless and sloppy about it, eh?

 

[Annie]

Being picked up, more and more. Lots of links, BTW Tapscott is a MSM reporter:

Furor grows over partisan car dealer closings | Washington Examiner

Furor grows over partisan car dealer closings
By: MARK TAPSCOTT
Editorial Page Editor
05/27/09 3:37 PM EDT
Evidence appears to be mounting that the Obama administration has systematically targeted for closing Chrysler dealers who contributed to Repubicans. What started earlier this week as mainly a rumbling on the Right side of the Blogosphere has gathered some steam today with revelations that among the dealers being shut down are a GOP congressman and closing of competitors to a dealership chain partly owned by former Clinton White House chief of staff Mack McLarty.

The basic issue raised here is this: How do we account for the fact millions of dollars were contributed to GOP candidates by Chrysler who are being closed by the government, but only one has been found so far that is being closed that contributed to the Obama campaign in 2008?

Florida Rep. Vern Buchanan learned from a House colleague that his Venice, Florida, dealership is on the hit list. Buchanan also has a Nissan franchise paired with the Chrysler facility in Venice.

"It's an outrage. It's not about me. I'm going to be fine," said Buchanan, the dealership's majority owner. "You're talking over 100,000 jobs. We're supposed to be in the business of creating jobs, not killing jobs," Buchanan told News 10, a local Florida television station.
Buchanan, who succeeded former Rep. Katharine Harris in 2006, reportedly learned of his dealership's termination from Rep.Candace Miller, R-MI. Buchanan owns a total of 23 dealerships in Florida and North Carolina.

Also fueling the controversy is the fact the RLJ-McCarty-Landers chain of Arkansas and Missouri dealerships aren't being closed, but many of their local competitors are being eliminated. Go here for a detailed look at this situation. McClarty is the former Clinton senior aide. The "J" is Robert Johnson, founder of the Black Entertainment Television, a heavy Democratic contributor.

 

[Fraulein Hilda]

He thinks he is running Cuba or Venezuela. He thinks people will get used to being miserable and be content to be that way forever for the sake of his own self-aggrandisement.

 

[RodISHI]

This must be part of the wealth distribution program that was being touted during the campaign.

 

[Fraulein Hilda]

This must be part of the wealth distribution program that was being touted during the campaign.

Oh, yeah, baby. The line, "I didn't think he would do this," is the new, uh, black.

 

[PoliticalChic]

Conspiracy theory du jour. What a bunch of crap. Don't these people have anything better to do than try to bring down Obama with this kind of nonsense? Seems to me there's enough right in their faces to smack him down for without having to expend enormous amounts of time digging up dirt that eventually will just go into the trash bin like all the rest.

It's a given that established big businesses have traditionally supported Republican candidates. But I am surprised at the "list" and the amount of the donations. You mean those dealerships were <gasp> BUNDLING campaign contributions so they could escape the legal limits? OMG!!!! How many rants did I see against Obama during the campaign for that very thing?

Just wondering, did you voice the same sarcastic " OMG!!!!" when you first heard about Nixon's enemies list?


"Posts at RedState, Reliapundit, American Thinker, Gateway Pundit, Joey Smith and Doug Ross pointed intitially at the remarkable number of closed Chrysler dealerships whose owners happen to have been contributors to Obama opponents, mainly Republicans."
Is Obama closing GOP-leaning car dealers? Opinion Articles - Mark Tapscott | Editorials on Top News Stories | Washington Examiner

 

[Fraulein Hilda]

The beauty of Obama's drones is that they can readily migrate from denial to justification, when need be.

 

[MaggieMae]

Halliburton bad, Chrysler good.

librals are just too damned bossy,, saying when we can and cannot have a discussion..

Huh? Aren't you having a discussion? I must be missing something.

 

[MaggieMae]

I don't see it that away. I pissed off a Dem leader once. He went after me and my family for years.

Sure, like anyone should believe you.

I'm sure you wouldn't MaggieMae. Your head is stuck to far up in that donkey's ass to see clearly.

If the guy was stalked by a "dem leader" or anyone else, hasn't he ever heard of calling the police? Or filing a lawsuit if it was "for years"??? Use your fucking head.

You fools just like to make noises when you have run out of debate points. What if I had said something as foolish as that? You would have stalked me around this board like a rabid dog. In heat.

 

[MaggieMae]

Wouldn't it have been neat if just ONE dealer who was a big Obama donor got closed down?




But, none did. In fact, one was massively helped, most all his competition was closed down!





Can you not smell that rot?

I keep telling ya that businesses like that support Republicans. My brother-in-law owns a used truck dealership where you'll still find photographs of George & Laura on his bulletin board, even though he's poor as a churchmouse these days and struggling to get by. The same brother-in-law once owned a Ford dealership and then a snowmobile dealership, but he's not a good money manager and lost both, filing for bankruptcy after the latter failed. But he's still a die-hard Republican.

 

[MaggieMae]

Yes, let's close down only the non-donor dealers, because the drive-bys are too lazy and loyal to report it, and even if one does, old Maggie and her kind are too brainwashed to believe it.

I'll believe it when I see some solid facts. If the tables were turned, wouldn't you say the same? Of course you would.

Now go stalk somebody else, Broom Hilda.

 

[del]

Wouldn't it have been neat if just ONE dealer who was a big Obama donor got closed down?




But, none did. In fact, one was massively helped, most all his competition was closed down!





Can you not smell that rot?

I keep telling ya that businesses like that support Republicans. My brother-in-law owns a used truck dealership where you'll still find photographs of George & Laura on his bulletin board, even though he's poor as a churchmouse these days and struggling to get by. The same brother-in-law once owned a Ford dealership and then a snowmobile dealership, but he's not a good money manager and lost both, filing for bankruptcy after the latter failed. But he's still a die-hard Republican.

so your position is that every car dealer is a republican?

 

[MaggieMae]

Yes, let's close down only the non-donor dealers, because the drive-bys are too lazy and loyal to report it, and even if one does, old Maggie and her kind are too brainwashed to believe it.

Very similar to the brainless defense of Dodd when he lied about the AIG bonus legislation. Dodd then comes out and admits it, and those who defended him simply move as if nothing at all had actually happened - including their own complicity in defending Dodd's self-admitted lies...

Should we still be talking about incidents that occurred six months prior all the time? Good grief, we'd never get caught up. Dodd probably won't get reelected because of that one. What more did you want us to do? How much more publicity to seal his fate would have been satisfactory to you?

 

[Fraulein Hilda]

You mean a bunch of black guys who flunk a firefigter test is evidence the test is racist but a bunch of Republican donors who get their Chrysler dealerships taken away by a Democrat President is not evidence it was political?

Where is that twit Nik when I need him/her?

 

[MaggieMae]

FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right: News Flash: Car Dealers are Republicans (It's Called a Control Group, People)

But keep up with the conspiracy theories. Its fun to watch you all run around and freak out about imaginary shit.

Fuzzy, careless and sloppy math doesn't help your case. Did you really read what you linked?

Huh? The site confirms what I'VE been saying all along --

"... the list of dealerships which aren't being closed. It turns out that all car dealers are, in fact, overwhelmingly more likely to donate to Republicans than to Democrats -- not just those who are having their doors closed."

 

[MaggieMae]

Wouldn't it have been neat if just ONE dealer who was a big Obama donor got closed down?




But, none did. In fact, one was massively helped, most all his competition was closed down!





Can you not smell that rot?

I don't think they can smell rot through donkeyshit!

Not as pungent as wallowing around a pile of steaming elephant shit, I'm sure.

 

[MaggieMae]

Being picked up, more and more. Lots of links, BTW Tapscott is a MSM reporter:

Furor grows over partisan car dealer closings | Washington Examiner

Furor grows over partisan car dealer closings
By: MARK TAPSCOTT
Editorial Page Editor
05/27/09 3:37 PM EDT
Evidence appears to be mounting that the Obama administration has systematically targeted for closing Chrysler dealers who contributed to Repubicans. What started earlier this week as mainly a rumbling on the Right side of the Blogosphere has gathered some steam today with revelations that among the dealers being shut down are a GOP congressman and closing of competitors to a dealership chain partly owned by former Clinton White House chief of staff Mack McLarty.

The basic issue raised here is this: How do we account for the fact millions of dollars were contributed to GOP candidates by Chrysler who are being closed by the government, but only one has been found so far that is being closed that contributed to the Obama campaign in 2008?

Florida Rep. Vern Buchanan learned from a House colleague that his Venice, Florida, dealership is on the hit list. Buchanan also has a Nissan franchise paired with the Chrysler facility in Venice.

"It's an outrage. It's not about me. I'm going to be fine," said Buchanan, the dealership's majority owner. "You're talking over 100,000 jobs. We're supposed to be in the business of creating jobs, not killing jobs," Buchanan told News 10, a local Florida television station.
Buchanan, who succeeded former Rep. Katharine Harris in 2006, reportedly learned of his dealership's termination from Rep.Candace Miller, R-MI. Buchanan owns a total of 23 dealerships in Florida and North Carolina.

Also fueling the controversy is the fact the RLJ-McCarty-Landers chain of Arkansas and Missouri dealerships aren't being closed, but many of their local competitors are being eliminated. Go here for a detailed look at this situation. McClarty is the former Clinton senior aide. The "J" is Robert Johnson, founder of the Black Entertainment Television, a heavy Democratic contributor.

OF COURSE it's being picked up everywhere. The right wing noise machine sees to that. Are you kidding? This will be the topic du jour at least through the weekend or until the idiots find some other mundane incident to seize upon as being of worldly importance.

 

[MaggieMae]

Conspiracy theory du jour. What a bunch of crap. Don't these people have anything better to do than try to bring down Obama with this kind of nonsense? Seems to me there's enough right in their faces to smack him down for without having to expend enormous amounts of time digging up dirt that eventually will just go into the trash bin like all the rest.

It's a given that established big businesses have traditionally supported Republican candidates. But I am surprised at the "list" and the amount of the donations. You mean those dealerships were <gasp> BUNDLING campaign contributions so they could escape the legal limits? OMG!!!! How many rants did I see against Obama during the campaign for that very thing?

Just wondering, did you voice the same sarcastic " OMG!!!!" when you first heard about Nixon's enemies list?


"Posts at RedState, Reliapundit, American Thinker, Gateway Pundit, Joey Smith and Doug Ross pointed intitially at the remarkable number of closed Chrysler dealerships whose owners happen to have been contributors to Obama opponents, mainly Republicans."
Is Obama closing GOP-leaning car dealers? Opinion Articles - Mark Tapscott | Editorials on Top News Stories | Washington Examiner

Nixon's enemies list were all names who had potential political influence, dear. And your list of sites discussing this are all right-wing. Surprise surprise.