Posted on 05/26/2009 10:09:11 PM PDT by STARWISE
Are we looking at the biggest political scandal since Watergate?
Big Dem Donor Group allowed to keep all 6 Chrysler dealerships open.... Local competitors eliminated by Obama's task force!!
Earlier it was reported that the Obama Administration may have targeted GOP donors in deciding which Chrysler dealerships would have to close their doors.
Now there's this...
RLJ-McLarty-Landers is owned by three men.
One was the former Chief of Staff for President Clinton.
One is the founder of Black Entertainment Television and a huge Obama supporter.
All 6 of their Chrysler dealerships will remain open.
And, get this... Their local competitors have been eliminated!
*snip*
Joey Smith reported tonight that a Democratic donor group in the Midwest and South will not have to close any of their Chrysler dealerships:
The company is called RLJ-McLarty-Landers, and it operates six Chrysler dealerships throughout the South. All six dealerships are safe from closing. The dealer locations are:
Bentonville, AR (northwest Arkansas) Lee's Summit, MO (south of Kansas City, MO) Branson, MO Olathe, KS (near Kansas City) Bossier City, LA (near Shreveport) Huntsville, AL
The interesting part is who the three main owners of the company are. The owners are Steve Landers (long-time car dealer, 4th-generation dealer), Thomas "Mack" McLarty (former Chief of Staff for President Clinton), and Robert Johnson (founder of Black Entertainment Television and co-owner of the NBA's Charlotte Bobcats). Landers has given money to Republicans in the past, but McLarty campaigned for Obama in 2008, and Johnson has given countless amounts of money to Democrats over the years.
More... The decision to close the dealerships was made by Obama officials and not Chrysler.
Doug Ross first reported on this scandal and has several updates.
Obama’s riding dirty.
There is definately a pattern setting up. Go back and review Maxine Waters comments on minority dealerships.
The 32 minority dealerships that closed would be an interesting investigation.
Just two...
Kenneth Zangara (Zangara Dodge, Inc./Car Dealer), (Zip code: 87111) $400 to REPUBLICAN CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE OF NEW MEXICO on 09/18/07
The news on this dealership was; its credit was shut down and Chrysler would not let him stay open.
This dealership was consistently the largest dealership in New Mexico. And it is strange that in a 2008 press release, Ken Zangara was listed as one of the dealers participating in the testimony on Capitol Hill.
More details on Ken Zangara are found here
For more almost two decades, Ken Zangara was a good soldier for Chrysler. For many years he was the largest Dodge dealer in New Mexico, and he served a term as chairman of the Dodge National Dealer Council. The Albuquerque Dodge dealer was active in Republican Party politics, too, and knew President George W. Bush. Zangara used his connections in Congress to get Chrysler LLC and its dealers an audience with the White House when the embattled company sought a federal loan late last year. At an exclusive Jan. 18 White House farewell party for Bush, Zangara, 56, spoke with the man for whom he had raised so much campaign money. Zangara recalls ...
Take note of how Maxine Waters is concerned about the smaller dealerships being bought up by the bigger ones. The gist of her argument was on saving minority owned dealerships.
In the news you will find the minority owned Burt Dodge dealership being closed.
The owner, Lloyd Chavez was listed as the owner of the United States largest minority owned dealership.
And then you have this.
Vail-based businessman George Gillett Jr. is close to buying a big portion of the Burt Automotive empire, a source tells INDenverTimes. Burt Automotive, headed by Lloyd Chavez and his son, L.G. Chavez Jr., is the largest minority-owned automobile dealership in the nation and one of the largest Hispanic businesses in the U.S. The privately held company generated more than $2.1 billion in revenues in 2007. Gillett, whose diverse holdings include the Vista Auto Group dealership chain, is teaming up with auto dealer veteran Rod Buscher to buy dealerships from Burt, according to a source, who spoke to INDenverTimes on the condition that his name not be revealed. Buscher previously was a partner with John Elway, a former Denver Broncos quarterback, for his automobile dealerships.
The interesting part is Vail businessman Goege Gillet Jr. and who he likes to contribute to.
George Gillett (Booth Creek Management/Chairman), (Zip code: 81657) $2300 to UDALL FOR COLORADO on 03/31/07
George N. Gillett, Jr. (Booth Creek Management Corp./Chairm), (Zip code: 81657) $5000to DEMOCRATIC CONGRESSIONAL CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE on 08/18/06
When do people say enough is enough? When it’s too late and we have lost everything? I do believe that this is OUR country, not obama’s and his thugs. Now I clearly see how coups succeed so easily. It’s happening here and nobody gives a damn.
They are under enormous pressure from the President’s automotive task force.
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Who is on the automotive task list and better yet, wtf is he doing even having one. UNBELIEVABLE!! I’m so disgusted.
excellent observation
Bookmark!
Don’t you just love the smell of another 0 thuggie tactic burning in the air and how long before the media picks up on it?
btt
Bump!
Ping
It is going to be clear that the dealership closures were racially quotaed.
IN ADDITION, future dealer franchises will be quota based on race and political affiliation.
folks read Atlas Shrugged, the Obamacrats are looters as described in the book.
“...how long before the media picks up on it?”
Can you say, Forever?
Has anyone called the major news networks and demanded to know why they are not covering this? This is yet another outrage and if we don’t start making some noise....it is just going to continue. It’s time for lawsuits as well. I sure hope these dealers are in contact with some conservative law firms and foundations.
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!
Just think of the thousands of people who will be without work and the families this will affect.
Also, there will be quite a number of foreign auto franchises just waiting to fill the holes this will leave. Honda, Mitsubishi, Hyundai, Nissan, etc....so much for ‘Buy American.’
Sorry. Deep Throats are ethically challenged and only Democrat reporters use that garbage to crush Republicans. There is NO hope that the media will EVER help Republicans or hurt Democrats...
Actually, if the coup started, that would be a good thing. Obama and his cronies should be arrested and the government taken over by US Army Generals who will serve until the next election. These boys took an oath to UPHOLD the Constitution. This would be a good day to start that effort. Before a North Korean nuke (or, for that matter, an Islamic nuke) hits our shores. Unfortunately... not holding my breath...
The reset needs to come from the state level.
OK had the balls to take step one - who else will step up?
Going from a Constitutional Republic to a Fascist Tyranny is “change”, I’ll give him that... I’m sure leftists “hope” that it won’t turn out like EVERY other fascist tyranny throughout history - genocide.
However, from what I know of leftists, as long as it is conservatives (Christians) being killed, so much the better.
You can be quite confident that those “sacred” words were NOT said by ANY member of the Obama administration. How many signers of the Declaration or authors of the Constitution are rapidly turning over in their graves?
Can we get this story moving please.
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