Paul Ryan Sent GM CEO Letter In 2008 To Not Close Janesville Plant
Paul Ryan hit President Obama tonight in his speech for failing to keep open a GM plant in his hometown of Janesville, Wisconsin. The plant, however effectively closed in December 2008 and was put in stand by mode about a month before Obama took office. In this letter from June 2008 sent by Paul Ryan and the two Wisconsin Senators, Ryan asked the head of GM to reconsider closing the plant. The plant being in stand by mode leaves Obama open to the criticism it could have re-opened under his administration if the economy had improved. Obama had promised while visiting the plant in 2008 that it would stay open for 100 years.
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Christian Hagen 8 months agoTwo things: 1) Obama didn’t “promise” the plant would be open for 100 years. He said it could (or maybe that it should, same general idea). 2) Why would Ryan want to bring up the auto industry when the auto bailout was not only totally successful (the companies all stayed in business and returned their loans with interest) but was so despite Mitt Romney saying we should let them go under. Seems like poor strategy to me.
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Stephen Gutowski 8 months agoAs you well know the plant continued to produce trucks until April 23rd 2009. It was not closed. Plants that are closed don’t spend months building trucks. It is utterly dishonest to say that the plant was closed in December 2008. Only part of the plant closed then. The entire plant was not closed until April 23rd 2009. Heck, the didn’t even announce the final day of the plant until February 2009. Don’t take my word for it. Read the town’s own paper account of the announcement. Besides all of that the only thing Paul Ryan said in his speech was that Obama promised the plant would remain open for 100 years but it didn’t even last 1. Ryan never even claimed that Obama shut down the Janesville GM plant… only that he failed to save it as he promised. Paul Ryan is correct.
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