Tom Lamb of "It's a Kwazy Life" blog has done the yeoman's work on another angle of the story. Lamb has found that virtually all Republican-owned Chrysler dealerships in the State of Michigan are slated to be closed down. In contrast, he could not find a single Minority-owned Chrysler dealership in Metro-Detroit, slated for closure. Out of the 38 scheduled for closure dealerships statewide, only one single dealership was a Democrat donor. That dealership is Bero Motors in Escanaba (Upper Peninsula). However, Bero Motors has also given to Republicans in the past, including a $2,000 contribution in 2000, and a $300 contribution in 2008.
The List of Republican donor owned dealerships to be closed includes some rather large markets, in some rather Republican areas of the State:
Birmingham Chrysler, Troy (Richard Mealy - Republican Donor)Note - the only two dealerships in Detroit itself that are scheduled for closure are Republican donor owned:
Colonial Dodge, Eastpointe (Arthur Roshak - Republican Donor)
Dirk Waltz Buick/Olds/Jeep, Midland (Dick Waltz - Republican Donor)
Livonia Chrysler Jeep, Livonia (Collen McDonald - Republican Donor)
M & M Dodge, Kalamazoo (Rand Koetje - Republican Donor)
Martin Chrysler-Jeep, Saginaw (William Martin - Republican Donor)
Meadowbrook Dodge, Rochester Hills (Tony Viviano - Republican Donor)
Monicatti Chrysler Jeep, Sterling Heights (Kenneth Monicatti - Republican Donor)
Riverside Auto Sales of Marquette, Marquette (Irma Elder - Minority Owned - Republican Donor for Bush/Cheney 2004 and RNC)
Lochmoor Chrysler Jeep, Detroit (August Russo - Republican Donor)
Tamaroff Dodge, Southfield (Anthony Jerome - Republican Donor)
Lamb makes the point that spokespersons for Chrysler have repeatedly said that smaller dealerships were "not as profitable," and indicated early on that those were the dealerships most likely to be closed. But more recently the situation has changed. He asserts:The question is why would they remain open… With the Obama administration running the show, you could call it business madness to close profitable dealerships while keeping dealerships who should be closed, open.Lamb also calls attention to a video of a national conference of Minority Auto Dealers, and another video of Congresswoman Maxine Waters warning against closure of such businesses at a committee hearing.
Back in December of 2008, Waters harangued an Auto Industry Exec about closing "small independent dealerships," which some took to mean minority-owned. Her comments in the hearing:
"I understand when you talk consolidation... to me it means that, the big dealerships with access to capitol, and multiple locations will be able to buy up the small independent dealer, and just put them out of business. And that bothers me. I don't see the small dealerships having access to capitol from the banks and financial institutions."Chrysler CEO Robert Nardell is questioned by Waters towards the end of the video. See the video here.
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It all makes sense now. When the list came out and those of us on the West side of the state saw that all the dealers in Kalamazoo and Holland were closing, even the local TV wondered why there would be no Chrysler dealers left in these cities. In all 3 dealers including M&M in Kalamazoo were closed.
Two words:
Jennifer Granholm
this was posted at The Corner and needs to be looked into:
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Remain skeptical.
Auto dealers are generally a pro-Republican bunch, so most of their giving is of course going to be to Republicans.
Also, minority-owned dealerships also took a hit in the closings, a group that I don’t think would appear on any Obama Enemies List. Check here: http://www.seattlemedium.com/news/Article/Article.asp?NewsID=96770&sID=3&ItemSource=L
Of the 789 Chrysler dealers who were notified that their contracts will not be renewed, 38 are minority owned…
At the end of April, there were 154 minority dealers in Chrysler’s 3,181 total U.S. dealer body network….
You’ll see that 4.8% of the auto dealerships closed were minority owned.
Total percentage of all Chrysler dealerships that are minority owned? 4.8%
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From The Library of Economics and Liberty: "Where socialism sought totalitarian control of a society’s economic processes through direct state operation of the means of production, fascism sought that control indirectly, through domination of nominally private owners. Where socialism nationalized property explicitly, fascism did so implicitly, by requiring owners to use their property in the “national interest”—that is, as the autocratic authority conceived it."
All hail Franc-O-bama.
Bero Motors is one of the best dealership in the whole Escanaba area. I think here one can find all the information for buying a good car. Simply a stupendous post.
I wanna to buy a used Chrysler car do you think it will available in this Bero Motors.
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