Archive for November 18th, 2008

Chris Drongosky To Seek Chairmanship of Erie County Independence Party

Tuesday, November 18th, 2008

Chris Drongosky announced today that he will be seeking the Chairmanship of the Erie County Independence Party.

“I have had numerous conversations with the town chairmen and committeemen and they have asked to me seek the position,” Drongosky stated.  “I look forward to bringing a reform agenda the party desperately needs. I will take no salary and all money raised will be used to promote IP endorsed candidates.”

Drongosky stated that a county wide meeting will be held shortly to elect officers and will continue communicating with all town chairmen and committeemen.

A British Lesson on Auto Bailouts

Tuesday, November 18th, 2008

Is there a lesson to be llearned from our English friends across the pond, as they say?  It might be, don’t throw good money after bad.  That’s what they did trying to save British Leyland, maker of the Triumph.  It didn’t work.  That car company is now defunct. 

“Other experts are sounding the same alarm. “The British Leyland experience is a relevant and cautionary one,” said John Casesa, a principal in the automotive consulting firm Casesa Shapiro Group in New York. “The government got in the business of trying to make a winner out of a structurally flawed company. That’s the risk in the U.S. as well.””
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