General Motors has appointed Missy Owens as its head of Environment, Sustainability and Governance Policy.
Owens, who is the niece of President Biden, joins GM after spending eight years as Coca-Cola’s director of government relations. She will be part of the automaker’s Global Regulatory Affairs and Transportation Policy Group in her new ESG role, serving under David Strickland, GM’s vice president of global regulatory affairs and transportation technology policy.
“We are excited to welcome Missy Owens to our growing team,” Strickland said in a statement sent to The Detroit News this week. “Missy’s extensive experience across organizations leading teams to establish sustainability policies will be an asset as we drive towards a carbon-neutral future by 2040.”
Owens joined Coca-Cola from the U.S. Department of Commerce, where she served as the Chief of Staff to the Deputy Secretary. She also worked in the Obama Administration at the U.S. Department of Energy, serving as the Deputy Chief of Staff to the Secretary, and managed President Biden’s 2008 Senate campaign. Owens is the daughter of President Biden’s sister, Valerie Biden Owens.
GM is currently in the midst of launching 30 new EVs globally by 2025 and has outlined plans to sell as many as 400,000 battery-electric vehicles in the next two years. This goal is directly in line with President Biden’s ambition to have EVs account for half of all new vehicle sales by 2030. The Biden Administration has also proposed spending $5 billion to build a network of EV chargers along America’s interstate highways.
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Nothing to see here 🤣 the corruption is real.
Wait. You are telling me that Hunter Biden isn’t really a brilliant energy executive and a visionary artist?
Your so right as AMERICA falls to the wayside. Is she going to do this from the basement???
Really GM.
Missy Ownes (BIDENS NIECE)
You push an electrification narrative..hoax.
Create the problem and create the solution $$$
You have a NIECE of biden doing your bidding.
Must be the connection to those lithium mines CATL.
No conflict of interest there.
how GM doing on those chips to control our cards.
Wake up america.
If I am getting an EV, I’m buying one from Elon Musk.
What about Hunter? Why cant he have a job at GM? Joe says he is the smartest person he knows! Better hurry before Tesla hires him!
Do they need a director of crack pipe development? I hear there is a big government contract coming for that……
Ask him.
Why do you think that anybody else could know it except himself?
So we are in a James Taggert situation with GM.
Could you imagine the outrage if GM hired Tiffany Trump for this same position? First off the media would be running this story 24/7 and Nancy Pelosi and the rest of the whack pack would be demanding a full investigation along with a special council.
Hunter is an artist. Make him head of design. He can design something next cocaine high.
Each car hunty paints will add 500K to the list price…
Another Biden on the take LOL.
Is the BIG GUYS cut going to come from her or will Mary pay the BIG GUY directly, or INDIRECTLY..
Here is a ready made press release for GM. Out of ALL the people on the planet Joe THE BIG GUYS niece coincidentally happened to be the very best and only mastermind qualified for the job!
Total BS – Barra is as corrupt as the Bidens . The worst part of it is that its a made up job that is as useless as the Bidens. GM would be #1 in the world and the stock would be $150 share if Bob Lutz was able to take the helm but it had to be a PC woman who also stabbed the American people and Trump in the back. This rush to EV is going to backfire and stall GM out in the next couple of years. I will still buy GM only because their IC engines (small block chevy is the best engine ever built ) 1955 original tech. But I hold my nose as long as she is the CEO
Mary and all of her followers at GM need to go! GM is on the way to another Bankruptcy.
How wise is it to hitch your wagon to what is fast becoming the worst presidential administration in the history of this country? With inflation skyrocketing, fluff programs like $10k subsidies for EVs will not pass congress. Biden will be lucky if he can serve out his term without being impeached. Will Missy have any value to gm then?
It’s official. gm is woke.
Wow, didn’t see that coming. Ha Ha. You know a Scat Pack is starting to look pretty good right now!
Done with GM. This shows that Corrup Sleepy Joe is in GM’s pocket. Our governing officials, if that’s what you want to call them, in Washington are looking only after their pocketbooks. They care nothing about the American people. They are destroying our once great country. They have forgot that out founding fathers gave thier all to come to this land to build a country with a Goldly doctrine with liberty and justice for all.
Sounds like good motivation to sell my GM stock.
I suspect you Biden and GM haters would be no less venomous venting about Ford.
Maybe you’d all be happier riding bicycles as your primary transportation, as the citizens of some nations do.
Of course then you could rail against the few US bike manufacturers left, who produce mostly carbon fibers and other specialty, high priced ones.
WTF are you talking about?
Blue, bite me! Talk about over the top comments, get real!
I am not a Biden hater, watch and listen to him and you can clearly see he is not fit to sit in the oval office. Biden has a long history serving in the US Government, go back and watch some of his speeches. You will definitely see a difference in his demeanor. I am also not a GM hater, 99% of the vehicles owned since I started driving being GM vehicles. I currently own 2 Pick up’s, 2 Impalas a Buick Verano and Lacrosse. I don’t think GM should have hired anyone from the Biden Family. It’s just WRONG!!! I believe it would be wrong for any company to buy influence in this way.
Straight outta Woka-Cola.
My next truck will be a F150. I’m done with GM. The Biden crime family is in GM’s pocket as well. Of course they are. Wonder how many times she slept in creepy uncle Joe’s bed at the sleepovers?
Sorry, but you may want to try a Ram. Ford appears to be in Biden’s pocket as well.
Congratulations Missy! 1008 blessings!
GMA is quickly becoming a waste of time.
So that’s why gm stock was DOWNGRADED earlier this week. Hellish future ahead with yet another “woke” Executive. Oh & more “deals” with our good CCP friends!!
I’ve been a truly loyal GM owner since 1987 (age 17 when I bought my first car). In the last 3 years, I have begun leaning towards other brands, but have not yet purchased anything. I’ve known for years that U.S. auto makers have been in cahoots with the government. Ford should have been out of business after the pinto debacle… but somehow, putting a warning sticker on a potentially deadly car was good enough for the government, instead of a recall ( which would have truly bankrupted the company). GM with their ignition switch debacle. There are probably a lot more that I’m not familiar with. This move by GM creating a position for a lame duck administration’s niece (I don’t speak the B word) is pretty much the last straw. Time to find a new brand to take my loyalty to…
So the Bidens have their hands in GM now.
My question: if the real life Billy Madison (Hunter Biden) gets a senior executive position on the broad of a company, let alone an industry, he knows nothing about; is it sexist that Joe Biden’s niece, Missy Owens, only gets a mid-tier management job?
Wow, nepotism reigns, i will not be buying GMC truck.
I guess GMC does not see the forest from the trees.
Shame on You GMC, i had more respect for you until now.