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TAMPA, Fla. Steve Rattner, who oversaw the Obama administrations auto rescue, told TPM Thursday that Paul Ryan personally lobbied him in 2009 to intervene to reopen the Janesville, Wis., plant he cited in his convention speech on Wednesday.
Rattner recalled telling him the same thing he had told other lawmakers with similar requests: The White House left those decisions to the car companies.
We did not get involved with individual plant decisions in the auto task force, Rattner said in an interview with TPM. So I find it ironic that Paul Ryan, who thinks the government should stay out of all this, was nonetheless lobbying to change that decision.
Ryan actually voted for the 2008 auto rescue, breaking with most of his Republican colleagues in the House as well as Mitt Romney. However, he frequently criticizes the Obama administration for picking winners and losers in the economy. A spokesman did not immediately return a request for comment on his conversation with Rattner.
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when Scott Walker was spouting these lies on MSNBC last night. Like Ryan, Walker said Obama had promised that the Janesville plant would remain open and then broke his promise because the Janesville and Kenosha plants closed. BULLSHIT.
Intelligent Life on Earth To Scott Walker: Government Doesnt Decide Which Plants Stay Open
Politifact says Paul Ryan and Scott Walker are lying: http://www.politifact.com/wisconsin/statements/2012/aug/29/paul-ryan/did-barack-obama-break-promise-keep-gm-plant-open/