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Video- Rep. Ted Poe to Congress: Only GM Dealers That Donated To Republicans Were Shut Down
You Tube/Earth2Obama ^ | 6-3-09

Posted on 06/07/2009 1:46:04 AM PDT by STARWISE

Video - Rep. Ted Poe


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KEYWORDS: automakers; chrysler; dealers; dealerships; donors; gop; michigan; obama; overlordobama; redstates; tedpoe
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To: STARWISE
How many law suits are there to go after the dems who shut down pubbie dealers? If we don't go after them they will keep doing the same thing over and over.

Even if we sue them and lose they will get the message and go on to yet another dirty trick.

21 posted on 06/07/2009 5:28:31 AM PDT by rodguy911 (HOME OF THE FREE BECAUSE OF THE BRAVE--GO SARAHCUDA !!)
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To: STARWISE

Rep. Poe, or someone on his staff, must be either a FReeper or a Lurker. Must be.


22 posted on 06/07/2009 5:28:51 AM PDT by savedbygrace (You are only leading if someone follows. Otherwise, you just wandered off... [Smokin' Joe])
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To: STARWISE

ALso of note is the testimony of major Chrysler dealers before Congress on Thursday: it costs Chrysler NOTHINg to have a dealership.

Let’s let that fact sink in: NOTHING.

So, if it costs nothing, why close any dealership. The bigger your dealer network, the more cars you can sell and service as a brand.

As for people saying 90 % of the dealers were Republicans, how could anyone know that withoiiut a study of all the dealers?

More state run media lies to counter the emerging facts about the muscling out of GOP sympathetic dealers, in order to strengthen the Dem dealers.


23 posted on 06/07/2009 5:30:24 AM PDT by exit82 (The Obama Cabinet: There was more brainpower on Gilligan's Island.)
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To: Tom_Busch
Gaterway pretty much says it all, the fix was and is in.

The key thing no one is talking about is that why was it necessary to dump "any" of the dealers?

I make products and sell throughout the Southeast. The last thing I want to do in a soft economy is to get rid of dealers, without them you have no sales! Something is really crazy here.

24 posted on 06/07/2009 5:40:37 AM PDT by rodguy911 (HOME OF THE FREE BECAUSE OF THE BRAVE--GO SARAHCUDA !!)
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To: Wpin
Absolutely this all wreaks of mobsters and there is no bigger mob than the Chicago gang.
25 posted on 06/07/2009 5:42:29 AM PDT by rodguy911 (HOME OF THE FREE BECAUSE OF THE BRAVE--GO SARAHCUDA !!)
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To: exit82

You beat me by one post!


26 posted on 06/07/2009 5:44:08 AM PDT by rodguy911 (HOME OF THE FREE BECAUSE OF THE BRAVE--GO SARAHCUDA !!)
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To: STARWISE
"First time I've ever seen what he looks like."

Aren't you sorry you asked?

Leni

27 posted on 06/07/2009 6:05:30 AM PDT by MinuteGal (Don't Blame Me..............I Voted for the American.)
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To: STARWISE

My husband works at a GM dealership in the Cols. OH area. The owner happened to be on the internal GM website and saw that a notice had been posted that all dealerships could file a challenge against any mandatory closings. It was posted on Friday and had until this Monday (three days) to file. No one from GM such as Reps had called to tell him and evidently others about this, if he had not been on the website, he would have missed the opportunity.


28 posted on 06/07/2009 6:06:17 AM PDT by Toespi
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To: AdmSmith; Berosus; bigheadfred; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; ...

Thanks go to STARWISE for this topic and the other links.


29 posted on 06/07/2009 6:08:13 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: exit82; STARWISE
"without a study of all the dealers"

There's the problem.

This issue has been going on for weeks, and thru-out that time, many, many have said what you said.

The response is that we will do that or we are in the process of doing that. But, as yet, no one has published the data.

Enough time has passed to have done it. Its time to put up or shut up.

In the mean time, Fox News did a random sampling of closed dealers and open dealers. They said there was no difference.

You can also look at the details of closed dealer's contributions. That list was published by Chelsea Schilling at World Nut Daily.

The total dealers, 58 republican donors plus 7 democrat donors, out of 1789 closed dealers is a very, very percentage

Looking closer at the republican donors, there is a significant amount that money going to state level candidates and organizations.

Of the 58 republican donors, 14(about 25%) contributed $500 or less. There were 6(about 10%) that contributed $10,000 or more.

If you add up the total amount of money the republican dealers contributed and then deduct the amount donated at the state level, it is less than $100,000.

BFD!

30 posted on 06/07/2009 6:11:52 AM PDT by Ben Ficklin
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To: mono
Republicans OWN businesses.

That is the mantra of the liberals.....and it's also greatly exaggerated.

You are either misinformed (swallowed the liberal Kool-Aid) or are at least following in their footsteps.

31 posted on 06/07/2009 6:36:22 AM PDT by capt. norm (Never underestimate the power of very stupid people in large groups.)
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To: STARWISE
Obama Watch BUMP for a very important speech.
32 posted on 06/07/2009 6:37:01 AM PDT by EternalVigilance (They tell you that conservatism "can't win" because they don't believe in it. Duh...)
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To: rodguy911
I make products and sell throughout the Southeast. The last thing I want to do in a soft economy is to get rid of dealers, without them you have no sales! Something is really crazy here.

There ya go again, rodguy. Clouding the issue with common sense and logic.

33 posted on 06/07/2009 6:45:32 AM PDT by Roccus (The Capitol, the White House, the Court House...........America's Axis of Evil)
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To: Ben Ficklin

Have you seen a list of GM closings either in Texas or nationwide. I’ve not seen one that was complete. This one over at Huffington is far from being complete: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/05/15/gm-dealer-closing-list-se_n_203860.html and has some seven Texas stores listed.

One local owner was quoted in an article I read where he was asked about being concerned his store would be closed. He replied no because GM had some 1250 stores across the nation that sold less than 50 vehicles each in 2008 thus he expected most to the first round to come from that group.


34 posted on 06/07/2009 6:56:30 AM PDT by deport
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To: STARWISE

Yet another inbred, turkey-necked, career government worker.

Does he speak with a lisp too?


35 posted on 06/07/2009 7:00:58 AM PDT by Mister Muggles
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To: deport
So many of these new car dealers have, for years, been unprofitable, or at a level of profitability that had a ROI lower than a Certificate of Deposit.

They have all been waiting for the shake-out with a lottery mentality. If they win(avoid closing), they will win big.

36 posted on 06/07/2009 7:07:22 AM PDT by Ben Ficklin
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To: Roccus
Thanks Roccus, I try.

It is amazing however that few have brought up the issue that there really was no need to get rid of dealers since there is no cost to the company to have them!!

37 posted on 06/07/2009 8:02:36 AM PDT by rodguy911 (HOME OF THE FREE BECAUSE OF THE BRAVE--GO SARAHCUDA !!)
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To: Squantos
I’ll restore my older rides with non union after market or salvage yard parts.

I wonder how long it will be before salvage yards get closed down due to "environmental" concerns

38 posted on 06/07/2009 8:24:26 AM PDT by Las Vegas Ron (zer0 is doing to capitalism what Kennedy did to health care)
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To: savedbygrace; penelopesire; seekthetruth; television is just wrong; jcsjcm; BP2; Pablo Mac; ...

Possible, but there are several sites that
have been like vultures on this ..

http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com

Gateway picked up the Ted Poe video:

Texas Rep. Accuses Dems of Closing GOP-Donating Chrysler Dealerships (Video)

Texas Representative Ted Poe Accuses Democrats of Shady Dealings—

Using the list of all 789 dealerships to be closed, WND found that owners contributed $450,000 to GOP presidential candidates; $7,970 to Sen. Hillary Clinton; $2,200 to John Edwards and $450 to Barack Obama.

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http://directorblue.blogspot.com

Shocker: Dems Tell Obama To Let the Market Decide Dealership Closures

posted: 2009-06-06 16:38:00

The letter was signed by none other than Harry Reid and some of the Democrat leadership. I guess Socialism is okay until some of your constituents (and political donors?) get nailed in the sweep.

The Democrats are learning the hard way the lesson that Capitalists have known since at least as far back as Adam Smith: the free-market is, bar none, the only fair, just, and profitable way to judge the quality of a product and the best way to generate jobs and improve the overall economy.

Quotes from the letter, the full text of which is at Politico. (http://www.politico.com/politico44/perm/0609/pushback_on_chrysler_4a29bba0-af21-4dd4-9d76-c59c5aaf8f5d.html)

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Closing these dealerships will put over 100,000 jobs at risk at a time when our country is shedding jobs at an alarming rate. We also question the criteria being used to determine which dealerships should be closed and the fundamental fairness involved in this effort. It is our view that the market rather than leaving it up to the manufacturers whose poor leadership contributed to their demise. . . .

We believe the dealerships are one of the auto industry’s key sources of strength and the manufacturers should continue to honor their agreements and contracts. .

. . While we understand the desire to reduce the number of unprofitable dealerships, no one has yet sufficiently explained the need to close profitable dealerships. . . .

We are also concerned about allegations that dealers that have previously stood up for their rights against the manufacturers are being targeted by these closures.

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They question the criteria for closing dealerships? You mean political payback to unions isn’t a good enough criterion? I guess it might be okay if a dealership is owned by a Republican. Funny how the letter doesn’t mention that Barney Frank told GM to keep the plant in his district, which was on the chopping block, open for business. Sounds like sour grapes by the guys who did not get to share in the spoils after the plunder.

So not only do they suddenly and fervently embrace the free market and question the wisdom of raising the unemployment rate by closing the dealerships, they seem to actually care about Obama’s running roughshod over Constitutional property rights.

“However, we are concerned that manufacturers are closing profitable dealerships to circumvent current contracts which could require expensive buy-outs under normal conditions.”

Now that sounds like a letter written by Newt Gingrich, Steve Forbes, or any one of those greedy capitalist pigs on our side of the aisle. Is the tide turning against Obama on this, or are these spineless wonders, who didn’t step in to prevent this takeover in the first place, trying to get to the head of the line for pickings from the carcasses?

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and, of course

http://michellemalkin.com

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Video - Local Chrysler dealers fighting back (Wisconsin)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTYtoIdiElU

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Video - Obama Closes Republican Chrysler Dealers (see “more info”) (New Jersey, New York, Maryland)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTBE-LEZUJg

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List of Chrysler dealers being shut down:

http://wlox.images.worldnow.com/images/incoming/DealershipsExhibitA.pdf


39 posted on 06/07/2009 8:44:04 AM PDT by STARWISE (The Art & Science Institute of Chicago Politics NE Div: now open at the White House)
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To: rodguy911

I’ve asked that question myself and was hit with “market saturation” and other buzz words. With no business school education (not even Econ 101) I decided to let the matter drop. I played the ‘buzz word game’ for almost fifteen years with techs from Burroughs, Honeywell, Big Blue, NCR etc and just don’t want to do it anymore.


40 posted on 06/07/2009 8:53:20 AM PDT by Roccus (The Capitol, the White House, the Court House...........America's Axis of Evil)
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