Thursday, December 11, 2008
The Kill-The-Competition Scorecard
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CNBC recently created a list of states, Senators and car plants. Now, you can tell who's looking out for America—and who's speaking up for foreign interests, at great cost to the interests of the U.S.
Gotham Notes posts them here (Right-To-Work states in bold). (While, yes, some U.S. plants sit in R-T-W states and a handful of alien plants sit in Unionized states, the majority of each still rest with their respective groupings):CNBC | 20 Nov 2008 | 02:23 PM ET
As Capitol Hill wrestles with a bailout of the Big Three Detroit automakers, CNBC decided to look into the Senate representation of the U.S. automotive manufacturing base. What follows is a state-by-state compilation of auto plants:
Alabama - Jeff Sessions (R), Richard C. Shelby (R)
- Montgomery – Hyundai
- Tuscaloosa – Mercedes Benz
- Lincoln – Honda
- Huntsville - Toyota
Delaware – Joe Biden (D) Thomas Carper (D)
- Wilmington - GM
Georgia - Saxby Chambliss (R), Johnny Isakson (R)
- Doraville - GM
Illinois – Richard Durbin (D); Barack Obama's former seat.
- Chicago – Ford, Lincoln, Mercury
- Belvedere – Chrysler
Indiana - Evan Bayh (D), Richard Lugar (R)
- Roanoke – Chevy/GMC
- Indianapolis – GM, powertrain, metal
- Bedford – GM, powertrain
- Marion – GM, metal
- Princeton - Toyota
Kansas – Sam Brownback (R), Pat Roberts (R)
- Fairfax – GM
Kentucky - Jim Bunning (R), Mitch McConnell (R)
- Louisville – Ford Mercury
- Bowling Green – Chevy/Cadillac
- Georgetown – Toyota
Louisiana – Mary Landrieu (D), David Vitter (R)
- Shreveport - GM
Maryland - Benjamin Cardin (D), Barbara Mikulski (D)
- White Marsh – GM, powertrain
Michigan – Carl Levin (D), Debbie Stabenow (D)
- Sterling Heights – Ford, axels
- Woodhaven – Ford
- Dearborn - Ford
- Wayne – Ford
- Romeo – Ford, engine
- Detroit – Buick/Cadillac
- Flint – GM
- Bay City – GM, engine parts
- Livonia – GM, powertrain
- Pontiac- Chevy/GMC
- Orion – Pontiac
- Lansing – Cadillac, GMC/Saturn
- Warren - Chrysler
Minnesota – Norm Coleman (R), Amy Klobuchar (D)
- St. Paul - Ford, Mazda
Mississippi - Thad Cochran (R), Roger Wicker (R)
- Blue Spring - Toyota (opens 2010)
- Canton - Nissan
Missouri - Christopher Bond (R), Claire McCaskill (D)
- Kansas City, - Ford, Mazda, Mercury
- Wentzville – GM
- Fenton - Chrysler
Nevada – John Ensign (R), Harry Reid (D)
- Las Vegas - Shelby
New York – Hillary Clinton (D), Charles Schumer (D)
- Massena – GM, powertrain
- Tonawanda – GM, powertrain
Ohio – Sherrod Brown (D), George Voinovich (R)
- Brook Park – Ford, engines
- Avon Lake – Ford
- Marysville – Honda
- Toledo – GM Powertrain
- Lordstown – Chevy/Pontiac
- Mansfield – GM metal
- Moraine – GM
- Parma – GM metal
- Anna – Honda, engines
- East Liberty – Honda
- Russells Point – Honda, transmissions
- Twinsburg - Chrylser
Pennsylvania - Robert Casey (D), Arlen Specter (R)
- Pittsburgh – GM metal
South Carolina – Jim DeMint (R), Graham Lindsey (R)
- Spartanburg – BMW
Tennessee – Lamar Alexander (R), Bob Corker (R)
- Smyrna - Nissan
- Spring Hill – Saturn
- Decherd – Nissan
Texas – John Cornyn (R), Kay Bailey Hutchinson (R)
- Arlington – GM
- San Antonio - Toyota
Virginia - John Warner (R), Jim Webb (D)
- Fredericksburg – GM, powertrain
Wisconsin – Russell Feingold (D), Herb Kohl (D)
- Janesville – GM
- Kenosha – Chrysler
Now, when you see Sen. XXX bloviating on FOX or CNBC about sending the Big 3 down the tubes, just to kill the United Auto Workers, check here to see whose axe they're grinding.
Update 1/16/09:
The actual need, now that George W. Bush stuck the poison pill of a No Strike provision for the UAW in the automakers bailout, is to turn right around and throw every effort into unionizing those wretched souls stuck working for sub-standard wages and little to no benefits in the foreign car plants hiding throughout the South. They've turned the American South into a Third-world country with cheap labor, so it's time to support the Southern worker, and allow him and her to step into a decent life in the 21st Century.
Until then, boycott all non-union foreign cars.
Buy American!
posted by Gotham 4:08 PM
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