{"id":2267,"date":"2006-04-05T09:45:01","date_gmt":"2006-04-05T09:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=2267"},"modified":"2006-04-05T09:45:01","modified_gmt":"2006-04-05T09:45:01","slug":"dealer_activism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=2267","title":{"rendered":"Dealer Activism for GM&#8217;s Embattled Chairman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.emailthis.clickability.com\/et\/emailThis?clickMap=viewThis&amp;etMailToID=747944865\">Lee Hawkins, Jr., Monica Langley and Joe White<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Besides Mr. Fisher&#8217;s statement, Mr. Wagoner recently has won the backing of two prominent GM dealers. John Bergstrom, chairman of Wisconsin-based GM dealership chain Bergstrom Automotive, sent a letter to the board late last week to &#8220;share with you my total support and respect for Rick Wagoner&#8230;who has earned the respect of all of us in the retail network.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Another dealer, Carl Sewell, who has 15 GM franchises in the Dallas area, recently began talking to other dealers to say, &#8220;We need to come to our company&#8217;s and Rick&#8217;s defense.&#8221; GM is providing his dealerships with &#8220;the best product we&#8217;ve ever had,&#8221; he said, adding that Mr. Wagoner is &#8220;a wonderful human being of intellect and integrity.&#8221;<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lee Hawkins, Jr., Monica Langley and Joe White: Besides Mr. Fisher&#8217;s statement, Mr. Wagoner recently has won the backing of two prominent GM dealers. John Bergstrom, chairman of Wisconsin-based GM dealership chain Bergstrom Automotive, sent a letter to the board late last week to &#8220;share with you my total support and respect for Rick Wagoner&#8230;who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2267"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}