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But that’s not exactly right. Going back to the 1920s dealerships were reaching for the lever of legislative action to protect their position and they’ve done i
by emodendroket 3y ago
But that’s not exactly right. Going back to the 1920s dealerships were reaching for the lever of legislative action to protect their position and they’ve done it over and over since.
- detourdog 3y agoOh, my mistake this is business as usual. All the their happy talk fooled me. Do you know a case name?
- emodendroket 3y agoThis article people have been passing around in the thread contains a bit of a history of the car dealership lobbying, which started during World War I when they feared being driven out of business by automakers converting entirely to war materiel production and cutting them out. https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/05/rich-republicans-party-car-dealers-2024-desantis.html https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/05/rich-republicans...