Furor Grows Over Partisan Car Dealer Closings

by Mark Tapscott - May 27th, 2009 - Washington Examiner

Evidence appears to be mounting that the Obama administration has systematically targeted for closing Chrysler dealers who contributed to Repubicans. What started earlier this week as mainly a rumbling on the Right side of the Blogosphere has gathered some steam today with revelations that among the dealers being shut down are a GOP congressman and closing of competitors to a dealership chain partly owned by former Clinton White House chief of staff Mack McLarty.

Another owner of the dealership getting this great deal is the founder of BET, Robert Johnson, a heavy contributor to Democrats and Democrat causes. Maureen White, the wife of Steven Rattner, the Obama car czar demanding these closings, is the former national finance chairman of the Democratic National Committee and a major Democrat fundraiser. Isn't it typical of corrupt Chicago machine politics that this exercise in closing dealerships (a totally useless effort that will not sell a single additional car) is being used to pay back political enemies? Barack Obama is the most corrupt President in the history of our nation.