Letter from a Dodge dealer

[bonz50]

and yet ANOTHER reason to stay away from Dodge and GM products for the forseeable future... my fam will be driving Fords from now on...

 

[mcgyver]

turns out that the dealers being terminated are mostly big time republican financial doners!!!!


now I don't know if there are some dealers staying that also donated, but in almost every instance of termination, they have donated money.... and with a dem making the decisions of who stay and who goes... looks like we could be seeing some payback

 

[bonz50]

turns out that the dealers being terminated are mostly big time republican financial doners!!!!


now I don't know if there are some dealers staying that also donated, but in almost every instance of termination, they have donated money.... and with a dem making the decisions of who stay and who goes... looks like we could be seeing some payback

I would DEARLY love to see how true this is... if it IS true the backlash against the obama administration will be legendary

 

[Gainster]

and yet ANOTHER reason to stay away from Dodge and GM products for the forseeable future... my fam will be driving Fords from now on...

I hope I am wrong but just wait & see how this all shakes out when the gov run GM & Chrysler get back on track, With the gov backed & bailed out GMAC to give better loan rates to GM & Chrysler customers how does Ford stand alone against it?

 

[bonz50]

I hope I am wrong but just wait & see how this all shakes out when the gov run GM & Chrysler get back on track, With the gov backed & bailed out GMAC to give better loan rates to GM & Chrysler customers how does Ford stand alone against it?

i'd still rather buy a car/truck I'm not paying for twice (ie. my tax dollars paying for the company to exist in the first place)... and ford hasn't stood alone against the bailout, they stood side by side with GM and Chrysler, they just felt they didn't need the help... ford is not going to be subject to build cars that the white house wants built, they will be able to build cars that sell... I've yet to see ANY govt agency run things better than private industry could, if the gubmint does a better job I will honestly be SHOCKED... I think they are going to destroy GM in the most EPIC of ways... it will be a true clusterF###

 

[mcgyver]

I would DEARLY love to see how true this is... if it IS true the backlash against the obama administration will be legendary

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/?pageId=99328

http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/did-chrysler-kill-republican-dealers-or-what/

 

[Beels]

and yet ANOTHER reason to stay away from Dodge and GM products for the forseeable future... my fam will be driving Fords from now on...

Until the chit hits the fan there, then what?

Ford saved their bacon for now by selling off some assets and mortgaging the whole operation prior to the financial downturn. There isn't one automaker that is profitable right now.

 

[Gainster]

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/?pageId=99328

http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/did-chrysler-kill-republican-dealers-or-what/

Did Chrysler Kill “Republican” Dealers, Or What?
By Robert Farago
May 26, 2009





TTAC’s Best and Brightest spent some time this weekend examining the question of whether or not Chrysler and GM needed to terminate nearly 2000 dealers between them, both pro and con. We didn’t look at WHICH dealers got the axe, for two reasons. First, despite receiving nearasdammit $20 billion in taxpayer money (so far), GM has steadfastly refused to release a list of the 1100 dealers emailed their walking papers. The Huffington Post blog (of all people) has a partial tally, but GM ain’t gonna spill. Which, if you think about it, protects car dealers at the expense of taxpayers, who might not know they’re buying a car from a dead dealer trading. Bastardos! That said, when GM’s Marketing Maven, Mark LeNeve, announced the cull, he claimed that the business brains who made the cut based their decisions largely (if not exclusively) on volume. Chrysler, in contrast, produced a list of the dispossessed—and it’s all over the show. Urban, suburban, large, small, medium; the logic underpinning their choices is an enigma wrapped in a “Dear John” email. Or is it? The internets are abuzz with the tin foil hat-wearing theory that the cuts were made based on partisan politics. Check it out . . .


After receiving a tip about the possibility of political considerations affecting, The Free Republic did a little test.

I took all dealer owners whose names appeared more than once in the list. And, of those who contributed to political campaigns, every single one had donated almost exclusively to GOP candidates. While this isn’t an exhaustive review, it does have some ominous implications if it can be verified . . .

Consider the partial list of Chrysler dealership owners, listed below. You’ll notice that all were opponents of Barack Obama, most through sponsorship of GOP candidates and organizations, but a handful through Barack’s Democrat rivals (Hillary Clinton and John Edwards in 2008, for example).

• Vernon G. Buchanan: $147,450 to GOP candidates and organizations
• Wallace D. Alley and Family: $4,500 to GOP.
• Robert Archer: $4,600 to GOP and conservative causes.
• Homer S. Higginbotham and Family: $2950 to GOP.
• James Auffenberg and Family: $28,000 to GOP; $6,000 to one Democrat candidate.
• Michael Maroone and Family: $60,000 to GOP; $8,500 to two Democrat candidates.
• Jerome Fader: $6,500 to Democrats; $2,500 to Independent Joe Lieberman.
• Stephen Fay and Family: $13,500 to GOP.
• William Numrich: $20,000 to GOP.
• Robert Carver: $10,000 to Democrats including $1,950 to Hillary Clinton, nothing to Barack Obama.
• Robert and Linda Rohrman: $24,000 to GOP.
• Frank Boucher, Jr. and Family: $18,000 to GOP, $1,000 to one Democrat candidate.
• Scott Bossier: $4,300 to GOP.
• Todd Reardon: $17,000 to GOP; $2,000 to one Democrat candidate.
• Russ Darrow and Family: $78,000 to GOP.
• Bradford Deery and Family: $24,700 to GOP.
• Charles Gabus and Family: $30,000 to GOP.
• Brian Smith: $15,500 to GOP.
• Michael Schlossman: $14,000 to GOP; $14,000 to three Democrats ($12,500 to Sen. Russ Feingold).
• Don Hill: $11,000 to GOP; $12,800 to conservative incumbent Rep. Heath Shuler.

Bottom line (or not):

I have thus far found only a single Obama donor (and a minor one at that: $200 from Jeffrey Hunter of Waco, Texas) on the closing list.

Even if this is a simple reflection of your average car dealer’s political leaning, there’s a lot of confusion out there amongst ex-Chrysler dealers as to why some got the chop and others didn’t. As you’d expect, as Automotive News reports, emotions are running high.

“I’m too stubborn to quit, and I’m too stupid to go away,” said the owner of Richard Chrysler-Jeep-Dodge in the western Chicago suburb of St. Charles. “I’m going to keep selling cars and fight this to the end.”

“We don’t fit the guidelines for closure,” Massarelli said. “We’re profitable, we’ve never missed a payment and we’ve done everything Chrysler has ever asked us to help them out.”

“Every time Chrysler said they needed us, we were there for them,” Massarelli said. “Now they won’t even return my calls.”

From a PR perspective, this is a channel stuffed with not good. Severed Chrysler dealers are making a fuss in Congress and federal bankruptcy court, where they’re trying to halt Judge Arthur Gonzalez’ approval (on Wednesday) of the asset sale which will create “new” Chrysler. Perhaps this is a disinformation campaign. Perhaps not. Either way, even if the fix (as in canine fertility) was in, it doesn’t look like they’re going to stop the train from leaving the station.

 

[bonz50]

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/?pageId=99328

http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/did-chrysler-kill-republican-dealers-or-what/

i wonder if anyone else is going to get to investigating this...

 

[bonz50]

Until the chit hits the fan there, then what?

Ford saved their bacon for now by selling off some assets and mortgaging the whole operation prior to the financial downturn. There isn't one automaker that is profitable right now.

didn't say ford WAS profitable... however, they PR they've gotten form not taking the bailout has netted them a decline in their losses... they are slowly gaining some momentum where GM is in an epic downward spiral... and if you think the gubmint is helping it you're delusional

 

[bonz50]

i hafta pose this question... what percentage of all car dealers are republican?? this could be absolute BS... if 80% of all car dealer are republican anyway and 80% of the dealerships they closed are republican it would stand to reason...

 

[Beels]

didn't say ford WAS profitable... however, they PR they've gotten form not taking the bailout has netted them a decline in their losses... they are slowly gaining some momentum where GM is in an epic downward spiral... and if you think the gubmint is helping it you're delusional

Keep eating what the media feeds you.... THAT, is delusional.

 

[bonz50]

Keep eating what the media feeds you.... THAT, is delusional.

well, keep eating what the govt is feeding you... as much as i distrust the media, i trust the gubmint even less... particularly when it comes to running a biz

 

[mcgyver]

i hafta pose this question... what percentage of all car dealers are republican?? this could be absolute BS... if 80% of all car dealer are republican anyway and 80% of the dealerships they closed are republican it would stand to reason...

after doing a little more looking, I think you may be on to an explanation.......it would make sense that being business owners, they would understand the need for less gobmint in there lives and probably lean to the right....

I just found it interesting