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Earlier this month, Chrysler announced it was seeking permission from bankruptcy court to kill franchise agreements with 789 of its 3,181 dealers to save costs. Dealers, many of whom ran profitable businesses, told the media that the news was devastating.
Aside from the loss of a business, many of these franchisees may have something else in common: It looks like all the dealers who are losing their Chrysler franchises, with only a single exception found so far, have links to the Republican Party.
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QuoteFish - do you really intend to promote the ignorance of Rush Limbaugh on your blog???
ReplyDelete"all the dealers who are losing their Chrysler franchises... have links to the Republican Party" because ALL the dealers have links to the Republican party - period. If you use 'all' generously (in both instances). The actual ratio is more like 8:1 depending on your definition of "dealership". Where the dealerships being closed is ~9:1... it MUST be a conspiracy!!
For the numbers see:
http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2009/05/news-flash-car-dealers-are-republicans.html
I find it funny, that the GOP, who got tons of money from dealerships, voted AGAINST the auto industry bailout.
All these Republican linked dealerships were giving money to the party that wanted to put them out of business.
So much for the GOP being the pro-business party.
And... if these dealerships were profitable - while losing money for the mother company - ah, maybe Chrysler needs to rethink it's business plan! But, if you look at the numbers, it appears that the dealerships being closed were NOT that profitable.
From: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/05/14/chrysler-dealers-closing-_n_203460.html
"Chrysler executives said the company is trying to preserve its best-performing dealers and eliminate ones with the weakest sales. More than half of the dealerships being eliminated sell less than 100 vehicles per year, they said, and account for 14 percent of U.S. sales.
The company is also trying to reduce the number of single-brand dealerships to bring all three Chrysler brands _ Jeep, Chrysler and Dodge _ under a single roof, they said. It also wanted to limit competing dealerships."
Sounds like a good plan to me…
Funny comment on Nate's blog (referenced in previous comment):
ReplyDelete"Oh, that brings me back to the day when the owner of the dealership I worked at called a meeting and told us to vote for the Republican candidate- that we should "vote for our paychecks." Unfortunately for conspiracy theorists, that dealership didn't get cut."
So, I guess my comments were too inflammatory to post?
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