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Posted By pc25 6 months, 2 weeks ago in NewsA tipster alerted me to an interesting assertion. A cursory review by that person showed that many of the Chrysler dealers on the closing list were heavy Republican donors.
What we ask is: does it seem odd that the list of closed dealerships appears to have contributed a grand total of $200 to Barack Obama and millions to GOP candidates/causes?
Stay tuned. Heavy-duty data crunching is underway.
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pc256 months, 2 weeks ago
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Cavuto...Jim Anderer Chryslers Dealer
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2TyHM8P1dw&eur...-
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Dionys6 months, 2 weeks ago
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" A cursory review by that person showed that many of the Chrysler dealers on the closing list were heavy Republican donors.
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What we ask is: does it seem odd that the list of closed dealerships appears to have contributed a grand total of $200 to Barack Obama and millions to GOP candidates/causes?"
No. Probably because people who give to the GOP are the worst sort of predatory businessmen with the worst records for bilking people out of their money when it comes to cars. So it's a natural followup that those people would have their businesses closed. -
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mesodude6 months, 2 weeks ago
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McCain campaign paid Republican operative accused of voter fraud
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John McCain paid $175,000 of campaign money to a Republican operative accused of massive voter registration fraud in several states, it has emerged.
As the McCain camp attempts to tie Barack Obama to claims of registration irregularities by the activist group ACORN, campaign finance records detailing the payment to the firm of Nathan Sproul, investigated several times for fraud, threatens to derail that argument.
The documents show that a joint committee of the McCain-Palin campaign, the Republican National Committee and the California Republican Party, made the payment to Lincoln Strategy, of which Mr Sproul is the managing partner, for the purposes of “voter registration”.
Mr Sproul has been investigated on numerous occasions for preventing Democrats from voting, destroying registration forms and leading efforts to get Ralph Nader on ballots to leach the Democratic vote.
In October last year, the House Judiciary Committee wrote to the Attorney General requesting answers regarding a number of allegations against Mr Sproul’s firm, then known as Sproul and Associates. It referred to evidence that ahead of the 2004 national elections, the firm trained staff only to register Republican voters and destroyed any other registration cards, citing affidavits from former staff members and investigations by television news programmes.
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antibrainwasher6 months, 2 weeks ago
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WTF????
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this is a new low, even for the bottom of the barrel thug repugs. What a bunch of insane paranoid CRAP.
Don't you right wing tools have anything better to do that slime around on psycho websites with your tin foil conspiracy hats?
This is just another nail in the coffin of the GOP, the paranoid lunatics who think progressives operate in secret like the Cheney Neocons.
That's it, they are projecting their greed and dark murdering psychosis on dems, cause that's the only way cons operate, sneaking around like jackals.
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pc256 months, 2 weeks ago
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http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2009/05/hope-cha...
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Hope, Change & Marxism: Did Obama Target GOP Donors In Chrysler Dealer Closings? (Video)
• Vernon G. Buchanan: $147,450 to GOP candidates/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.
• Don Miller: $2,000 to GOP; $1,000 to Feingold.
• Eddie Cordes: $2,150 to GOP.
• Robert Edwards: $1,100 to GOP.
• James Crowley: $19,100 to GOP.
• Stanley Graff: $2,200 to John Edwards (2008 Presidential Run); $500 to GOP.
• John Stewart: $10,500 to GOP.
• John Fitzgerald and Family: $4,600 to John McCain (2008); $2,000 to Hillary Clinton (2008); nothing to Barack Obama.
• William Churchill and Family: $3,500 to GOP.
• Thomas Ganley: $9.450 to GOP.
• Gary Miller: $20,000 to GOP.
• Kevin and Gene Beltz: $18,500 to GOP.
• Arthur Grayson: $14,000 to GOP.
• Eric Grubbs and Family: $26,000 to GOP.
• Michael Leep and Family: $19,500 to GOP; $4,800 to three Democrats including Sen. Evan Bayh.
• Harry Green, Jr.: $10,000 to GOP.
• Ronald Hoover: $5,250 to GOP.
• Ray Huffines and Family: $18,500 to GOP.
• John O. Stevenson: $1,500 to GOP.• James Marsh: $8,200 to GOP.
• Max Pearson and Family: $112,000 to GOP.-
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Dionys6 months, 2 weeks ago
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Interesting how some of them also include people who gave more to the dems or equal amounts to both parties.
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Did you go back and check the people who RETAINED their businesses to see who donated how much to which party? Or do you not worry so much about facts? -
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mesodude6 months, 2 weeks ago
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Voter Fraud Myth Used to Push Voting Policies that Harken Back to the Jim Crow Era
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Recent studies show that a more diverse electorate turned out last November, including historically underrepresented young and minority voters. Since the election, Republican operatives have continued to use the specter of voter fraud to loosen regulations on voter suppression activities while pushing policies to make voting more difficult for the crop of new voters.
Last week we reported how the Republican National Committee (RNC) had quietly filed a motion to dissolve a consent decree prohibiting them from practicing voter caging and other voter suppression activities. The decree had been established in the 1980s after so-called "ballot security programs" to prevent voter fraud resulted in wrongful voter disenfranchisement of largely low-income and minority voters.
"The RNC claims that the lack of evidence of voter fraud is due to liberal voting laws that make fraud hard to detect," said Project Vote election counsel, Teresa James in last week's column. "Yet legislatures in the past decade have pushed through the most restrictive voting codes we've seen since the Jim Crow era. Complicated voter ID rules, barriers to voter registration, and arbitrary rules on verifying provisional or absentee ballots all disenfranchise qualified voters, especially minority voters. Despite this frenzy of allegedly anti-fraud legislation, this political party wants carte blanche to also use questionable tactics that suppress targeted voters, all in the name of mythical voter fraud."
Mythical voter fraud is currently being used in states with widely reported battles to pass strict voter identification requirements as their legislative sessions come down to the wire.
Last week, Missouri Secretary of State Robin Carnahan spoke in defense of the 230,000 eligible voters in the state who would be disenfranchised because they lack the necessary ID required under pending House Joint Resolution 9. The effort to pass a strict voter ID law continues despite a similar bill's failure to pass last year as well as a recent report by Carnahan's office that showed there were no instances of voter impersonation at the polls during the last three elections.
http://www.mydd.com/story/2009/5/7/202226/0299
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Fox News' Unhinged, Irrational Obama Attacks Stir up Violent Right-Wing Militants
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nostalgia6 months, 2 weeks ago
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Did you notice this comment from a reader?
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Chrysler is already "shopping" for dealers to take over the open "points" (another name for franchise) left by the closed dealerships.
What the story alleges is also being questioned by politicians - why close profitable dealerships
This is being noticed by both Senators from Missouri - including Senator McCaskill
McCaskill, Bond ask car czar for details about closing dealerships
U.S. Sens. Claire McCaskill and Kit Bond wrote a letter Friday to President Barack Obama’s auto task force seeking answers to concerns raised by Chrysler and General Motors dealerships in Missouri that learned last week their contracts will be terminated.
Auto dealers statewide have expressed frustration to McCaskill and Bond about the lack of information they have received from Chrysler and GM, saying they didn’t know the criteria used to make the contract termination decisions.
The two Missouri senators asked the task force for the criteria used to determine how many and which dealerships would be terminated, as well as the process for dealerships to appeal decisions.
“Many Missouri dealers are asking us why certain profitable dealers, costing the auto companies nothing, were selected for closure,” McCaskill, a Democrat, and Bond, a Republican, wrote to White House car czar Steve Rattner. “From this perspective it appears an arbitrary standard may have been used to make these decisions … these dealers deserve a little more than just a pink slip in the mail.”
http://stlouis.bizjournals.com/stlouis/stories/200...
Think I'll send a link to this story to Senators Bond and McCaskill
Might not be a bad idea to send it to the dealers who are being closed too-
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pc256 months, 2 weeks ago
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there are also state franchise laws
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http://www.autonews.com/article/20090511/ANA06/905...
this is going to go to the courts.......
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k9kssr6 months, 2 weeks ago
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I'd also heard that those closed dealerships were being transferred over to "preferred" dealers. Does anyone have anything on this?
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This is just sickening, some of these dealers, just average folk, are being ruined financially for their political beliefs....that's not what this country is about, AT ALL.
And what about all the lost jobs as a result of closing these dealerships....salesmen, mechanics, parts managers, service managers, clerical staff. I thought we were trying to encourage job growth.-
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Dionys6 months, 2 weeks ago
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" This is just sickening, some of these dealers, just average folk, are being ruined financially for their political beliefs....that's not what this country is about, AT ALL."
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No. But this country has always been about consolidation and incorporation, and destroying the small people in favor of corporations. Which is exactly what the GOP has always supported and exactly what this sounds like.
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pc256 months, 2 weeks ago
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Obama is going to try to run roughshod over states and states rights.........less than 100 days in office and the issue of State Sovereignty is coming to the forefront
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Nullification, secession, race, interstate commerce and state sovereignty
aximizing happiness pursuits via state sovereignty in the age of Obama
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pc256 months, 2 weeks ago
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Eleven States Declare Sovereignty Over Obama’s Action
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http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=30807
State governors -- looking down the gun barrel of long-term spending forced on them by the Obama “stimulus” plan -- are saying they will refuse to take the money. This is a Constitutional confrontation between the federal government and the states unlike any in our time.
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Dionys6 months, 2 weeks ago
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It's all anecdotal. There's a reason hearsay isn't usualy admissible. Let us know when someone goes over the entire list of dealerships closed and dealerships left open and there's an apparent bias that can be directly linked solely to political contributions.
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Wolfie20076 months, 2 weeks ago
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We're looking at the Chicago School of Thuggery in action. The institution founded by bootleggers and moonshiners and brought to prominence by Big Al Capone and his boys but perfected by Mayor Daily and his son Mayor Daily. Now we have the favorite son and graduate of this institution bringing their plan to the entire nation. Oh gee, thanks Obama.
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CRYMTYPHON6 months, 2 weeks ago
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First you told us Obama was a inexperienced weakling panty-waist that gladly kissed the behinds of his opponents.
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He didn't, of course, but you liked the image;
which told us more about you than Obama.
But today he is a Nixon-like thug with an enemies list, punishing local car dealerships who incurred the wrath of his Machine?
Be serious; if Obama had 'henchmen', and they thugged around
being criminal and cruel,
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