By: Bob McCarty
Bob McCarty Writes
Below are three videos which capture some of the emotions of Chrysler dealers in Georgia, Michigan and New York who’ve been told their dealerships are set to close:
Video #1 (above): Daniel Womack, owner of a Claxton Chrysler in rural Claxton, Ga., warns the loss of his dealership in a town where everyone knows each others’ names, will be devastating to his small town.
Video #2 (above): Colleen McDonald, owner of Holiday Chevrolet, Livonia Chrysler Jeep, and Century Dodge, was told last week that all three of her dealerships in the Detroit area will have to be closed. She says “They can take away my franchise, but they cannot take away 30 years experience in the car business and they cannot take away my faith.”
Video #3 (above): Erika Koehler, whose family has owned and operated Scotia Motors Dodge in Scotia, N.Y., since 1946, urges her fellow New Yorkers to contact their elected officials about the federal government’s involvement in the effort to destroy their family business — and those of others. (Hat tip: Nice Deb)
Since parting ways with my 1976 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme two-door after graduating from college, I’ve been “out of love,” so to speak, with the Big Three automakers, mostly because of the greed displayed by the United Auto Workers over the years. Still, I empathize with the 1,100 Chrysler dealers who will soon lose their dealerships and for their employees who will be let go as a result of Big Government run amok. And I can’t help but think about which industry is next on the fed’s chopping block.
See also: American Thinker’s Letter from a Dodge Dealer
