Toyota – known far and wide for its excellent quality – suddenly has a spate of alleged quality break downs. Then the executives get hauled before a Congressional committee to be grilled by…well, paid tools of the United Auto Workers, which has never been able to unionize Toyota’s factories:
Thirty-one House Dems quizzing Toyota execs got UAW campaign cash
Two committees in the U.S. House of Representatives are holding hearings this week concerning allegations of sudden acceleration problems in Toyota cars and trucks sold in this country.
Among the witnesses appearing today at the hearing of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform was Toyota CEO Akido Toyoda, grandson of the company founder. On Tuesday, James E. Lentz, Toyota USA’s top sales executive, appeared before the Committee on Energy and Commerce.
There is a combined total of 59 Democrats serving on these two panels, which hold potentially life-and-death power over Toyota’s ability to continue offering its products to American consumers. So far this year, 31 of the 59 have received re-election campaign contributions ranging from as low as $500 to as high as $10,000 from the United Auto Workers union.
And, of course, the stories of Toyota failing in quality is making that company out to be as bad in quality as General Motors – now partly owned by the UAW.
Anyone else smell a democRAT here?
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