Excellent study. Once boiled to a simple set of statistics, we might have a case of corruption at hand. However, who in the world will prosecute these people??
WOW; if this turns out to be true for all or the great majority, this has to be considered a scandal of the highest order.
I bought two cars from Maroone but it was a long time ago.
Interesting. It looks like you’re doing this alone. Too bad America has no ‘journalists’ left.
Wow. I didn’t realize they were closing Roger Penske. How the hell do they justify that?
Somebody should do a full analysis. So far this is only anecdotal, but I’ll bet the results continue to hold up.
I hope someone or organization continue to look into this so that holy hell can be raised about how politics played a part in these closings.
Thanks for looking this up. I wondered, too, about whether Rush’s speculation was true. I’m guessing more car dealerships are owned by Republicans than Democrats so there may be more math that needs to be done.
So what about the Long Island dealer that got this idea running? Who did he donate to?
Interesting.
I posted this on an earlier thread. I knew it would probably be proven somehow.
Letter from a Dodge dealer
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wombtotomb to IYAS9YAS
Check 2 things:
Their voting record-too conservative they were axed
Their Church attendance
I bet either one or the other has something to do with it. We can’t have those faith filled (ie bitter clingers) running successful businesses. It would only bolster their argument.
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Here’s a link to a blog that will detail the campaign contributions as they are investigated. I will continue to update this blog until every dealership owner has been researched.
http://chryslerdealershipshutdown.blogspot.com/
In order to make an inference, one would need to know the % of dealers left in place who made donations to either Republicans or Democrats. Perhaps all the rest of the dealerships were pro-Republican? Just knowing that the majority to be terminated lean Republican is not enough to prove political bias.
Of course, the whole mess is skulduggery no matter how the terminated dealerships were chosen.
On Beck, I saw a NJ dealer who said his franchise was being given to a dealer two miles down the road. Also, on FR there was a letter from a dodge dealer that said his dealership was being given to someone else. In order to complete this picture, we need to find out the campaign contributions of the people who are getting dealerships.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2254042/posts
It’s a safe bet that most of the people getting laid off are Democrats. I wonder if the MSM is covering that story.
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To those dealers who are being shut down, I would say this... Re-open selling Ford or any other manufacturer that has not been nor will be confiscated by the government.
I’ve been a Chrysler fan for a long time.
There is absolutely NO WAY I will ever buy one again... not because of the quality of the product, but rather because of who the owner is.
What the Government has done is UNCONSTITUTIONAL!
I will NOT support an unconstitutional government with my patronage of their put-puts vehicles.
BE GRATEFUL you are no longer associated with a government owned entity selling product to the public.
Take advantage of the situation and get rich by cornering the privately owned dealership market.
To those business owners big or small who are thinking about taking taxpayer money, I would say think again! I for one have no intention of buying ANYTHING produced by the government... and if the government owns you, then they ARE the producer.
BOYCOTT THE FED!
Bump!
Lots of investigating needs to be done.
Definitely not only which dealers are losing but which dealers are gaining.
Isn't Ganley running for the Voinovich seat?
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Finally you can do state by state comparisons and look for imbalances there with respect to representation.