WI Lawmakers Throw Hail Mary to ChryCo's Commander-In-Chief

by Robert Farago

Published: June 21st, 2009

WISCONSIN — Wisconsin lawmakers have appealed to President Barack Obama hoping to keep Kenosha’s Chrysler plant open.

Sens. Herb Kohl and Russ Feingold and Reps. Paul Ryan and Gwen Moore sent a letter to the president one day after they met with Chrysler officials.

The lawmakers said Chrysler didn’t give them any reason to believe the company is serious about keeping jobs in Kenosha.

The Wisconsin delegation asked the president to do all he can to keep the plant open.

Robert Farago

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Paris-dakar on Jun 22, 2009
Where “we” defined as people who don’t know better. jimmy2x is correct that this stuff’ll be ignored, but the few which coincide with actual decisions will feed the idiotic conspiracies. Sure, this whole process is working without consideration of political connections and political implications. Keep pouring that Koolaid, someone is bound to drink it.

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GS650G on Jun 22, 2009

And yet another excellent example of why the government should not own and operate auto plants. They will be renaming these buildings after the crooked lawyers in Congress who used taxpayer money to keep them open.

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Fred diesel on Jun 22, 2009

It boils down to simple questions...Are you making a competitve global product or parts that will go into it? Does Fiat/Chrysler need an obselete, redundant V6 motor plant? Unless theyre planning to make an engine that WILL become useful and necessary(unlikely), the answer is NO. Sorry.

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U mad scientist on Jun 22, 2009
Sure, this whole process is working without consideration of political connections and political implications. Funny because innuendo is the very stuff that has been destructive to our political process. Also, I'm not sure why people would think the same decision in absence of fed ownership would be any different. Same congresscritter sending same letter. Same internal corporate politics.

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