It seems former General Motors executive Bob Lutz won’t stick to the auto industry in the immediate future. U.S. News reported last Thursday that Lutz will serve as Michigan Republican governor candidate Patrick Colbeck’s finance chairman.
The Colbeck campaign will task Lutz with fundraising for the current Republican state senator. The report said the campaign had just $13,000 on hand as of this past October.
Lutz is a well-known figure in Michigan and his lengthy career spanned Chrysler, Ford and General Motors. Colbeck said he’s “thrilled” to have Lutz on board to heighten the campaign. The candidate also noted he and Lutz worked together in the past to restore a portion of the former Willow Run Bomber Plant and create a museum.
In his retirement, Lutz pens a column for Road and Track and helped found VLF, which builds the Destino—former Fisker Karmas outfitted with a 6.2-liter supercharged LS9 V8 engine.
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To give you a clue about the real job of a campaign finance chairman, let me tell you about others who have had the job before.
Trump’s finance chairman was Sheldon Adelson, casino owner in Chinese Macao.
Hillary’s finance chairman was Harvey Weinstein, owner of nothing but an ill-fitting dressing gown.
Most campaign finance chairmen access that finance by going to their own bank. Sure, these big pollies had fronts to put their names on the job title, but the real chair was the people I named. Colbeck’s Campaign is too small to have a fronter.
To the downvoters on the thumb below, do you hate me because I told you the truth about Trump, or do you hate me because I told you the truth about Hillary?
I bet Bob would have quite a lot of good things to say about Ralph Nader. Hey Bob, how about a column on Nader?
Bob Lutz, interviewed by New York Times in November 2015:
“The book had a seminal effect,” said 2013 hall inductee Bob Lutz, who was a top executive at all three major U.S. automakers. “I don’t like Ralph Nader and I didn’t like the book, but there was definitely a role for government in automotive safety.” If anything, he said, the regulations that followed leveled the playing field among automakers. “It sets ground rules where everybody has to do something and nobody has to worry” he said.
So Lutz’s comments about Nader are “I like this but I don’t like that” but Lutz’s comments about Trump are consistent “I don’t like any of it”…