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Article: Head of auto dealer group praises McGraw: ; Attorney general has helped reclaim state car dealership franchise laws
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- Charleston Daily Mail
- Article date:
- July 8, 2009
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The president of the West Virginia Automobile & Truck Dealers
Association is crediting state Attorney General Darrell McGraw and
the attorneys general of 42 other states with salvaging state car
dealership franchise laws.
Last month, Chrysler wiped out 789 dealers, including 17 in West
Virginia, while in bankruptcy. General Motors Corp., which is
currently in bankruptcy, is pushing to eliminate 2,400 dealerships,
including an undisclosed number in West Virginia, by 2010. Ruth
Lemmon of the auto and truck dealers' trade association said those
decisions won't change. She said bankruptcy allows companies to do
extraordinary things.
"They (the manufacturers) were trying to wipe those (franchise ...