The concerned relative had it partly right.
“Too bad about the GM thing, but I hear the Janesville plant is getting a new medium-duty truck,” the relative told a salaried employee of the auto plant in Janesville at a holiday gathering.
Full-size sport utility vehicle production has ended at the local General Motors plant, but medium-duty truck production is continuing—not starting—in Janesville.
And it likely will continue into May, when the lights finally go off in the facility that has been producing vehicles since 1923.
When GM officials announced last June that SUV production would cease in Janesville, they also said that medium-duty truck production would conclude by the end of 2009, or sooner if market conditions dictate.
Orphaned by the loss of its big brother in December, the Isuzu line and its 50 or so hourly and salaried employees continue to build about 25 trucks four days a week in what has become a nearly empty plant.
The Isuzu line is operating in the north end of the 4.8 million-square-foot plant, an area that was once the plant’s tire building.
In a partnership with Isuzu, local workers build the NPR truck, which is commonly used as a delivery vehicle.
So it seems workers at that GM plant in Janesville were indeed working in February of 2009. In fact, they worked on that joint GM/Isuzu project producing new vehicles until May 2009, under President Barack Obama.
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As Politifact notes, the Isuzu project was done on a skeleton crew of several dozen employees. The bulk of the staff, about 1,200 workers, were laid off in December, 2008.
http://www.politifact.com/wisconsin/statements/2012/aug/29/paul-ryan/did-barack-obama-break-promise-keep-gm-plant-open/
I’m sure you’ll correct this honest mistake.
What mistake? A plant that was producing vehicles in June of 2009 could not have closed under President Bush. Impossible.
I don’t think Obama made a promise, and I don’t think Ryan said he made a promise.
[...] slammed concerning statements he made about the closure of the Janesville General Motors plant. Rep. Ryan reiterated that President Barack Obama promised to keep the plant open, but then shut it d… The left-wingers went rabid and supported the false narrative that the plant was closed by [...]
Andrew, you’re a typical liberal MORON, thanks for sucking on my rather large piston.
[...] slammed concerning statements he made about the closure of the Janesville General Motors plant. Rep. Ryan reiterated that President Barack Obama promised to keep the plant open, but then shut it d… The left-wingers went rabid and supported the false narrative that the plant was closed by [...]
Are we going to have to worry about the definition of the word “open” now? (I just figured out what “is” really means.)
[...] more at The Right Sphere By Editorial Staff /// August 30, 2012 About Editorial Staff [...]
[...] and the plant then went under. It’s absolute garbage to say the plant was closed in 2008. The Right Sphere has some evidence, here’s some more: The Janesville plant stopped production of SUVs in 2008 [...]
[...] Jeremy Holden is one of the better crap chefs at Media Matters and today he goes after Ari Fleischer for fact checking the bogus fact checker. Tommy covered that in detail. [...]
[...] some diligent fact checkers on the Right have pointed out that the plant more accurately closed its doors in 2009, a mere four months after [...]
[...] points out that the GM plant mentioned by Representative Ryan still produced vehicles in 2009, contrary to [...]
[...] slammed concerning statements he made about the closure of the Janesville General Motors plant. Rep. Ryan reiterated that President Barack Obama promised to keep the plant open, but then shut… The left-wingers went rabid and supported the false narrative that the plant was closed by [...]
“I remember President Obama visiting it when he was first running, saying he’ll keep that plant open,” Ryan said at a campaign stop in Ohio Thursday, recounting the fact that his high school friends worked at the GM assembly plant. “One more broken promise. We used to build Tahoes and Suburbans. One of the reasons that plant got shut down was $4 gasoline. You see, this costs jobs. The president’s terrible energy policies are costing us jobs.” Can someone please point out to me where President Obama broke a promise in regards to this plant? Bueller? Bueller? Note that he also blames President Obama for $ dollar gas prices the summer before he became President.SMDH @ Lyin’ Ryan…aka Paul Lyin’.
[...] The subject they jump Walker on is about a car factory in Janesville where Ryan is from being closed down because of Obama’s policies. Naturally PMSNBC couldn’t stop themselves and began blurting out that Ryan’s pants were ablaze and the plant in fact closed down prior to Obama’s presidency during Bush’s administration. Funny thing is, our friends over at The Right Sphere wrote an article that proves different. [...]
[...] RNC speech.[3] Where did Vespa get the idea Ryan had “reiterated” it? Vespa links to a right-wing blog, which does, indeed, [...]
[...] from his RNC speech.[3] Where did Vespa get the idea Ryan had “reiterated” it? Vespa links to a right-wing blog, which does, indeed, [...]
[...] slammed concerning statements he made about the closure of the Janesville General Motors plant. Rep. Ryan reiterated that President Barack Obama promised to keep the plant open, but then shut… The left-wingers went rabid and supported the false narrative that the plant was closed by [...]
Thanks! I have just been searching for info about this topic for a while and yours is the best I have found out so far.
[...] “promised” to keep it open. In addition, the plant did not close in 2008 as has already been pointed out. The plant did not officially close until April 23, 2009 (and instead of Obama retooling that [...]
What is worse? Under Bush more than 2000 jobs lost or Under Obama 57
jobs lost.
December 23, 2008: SUV production ends, and more than 2,000 GM workers are laid off, according to the Gazette. Medium truck production continues.
April 23, 2009: The plant’s medium-duty assembly line, which produced an Isuzu line, closes, ending vehicle production at the plant and resulting in the loss of 57 production jobs, according to the Gazette.
[...] We also know that the plant didn’t close until after he became president. [...]
[...] thugs and their surrogate media outreach. Since this and proof already presented that the plant DID close after Obama became President it should put to bed the “Paul Ryan lied about the Janesville GM plant” meme. But [...]
@Truth as a weapon, here is the (broken) promise:
http://www.therightscoop.com/video-proof-of-obamas-empty-promise-to-janesville-plant-vindicating-paul-ryan/