The New American is reporting that Obama advisor Ron Bloom, the “Car Czar” and architect of the auto company bailout, has denied before Congressional investigators having said in 2009, “I did this all for the unions.” In his crafting the auto bailout, Bloom has been accused of choosing to cut salaried employee benefits while preserving union benefits and giving unionized employees differential treatment as both GM and Chrysler careened towards bankruptcy. Darrell Issa, Chairman of the House Oversight Committee, does not believe Bloom’s denial of the remark and continues to press the issue. In a letter to Bloom requesting clarification Issa wrote, “Despite your five denials, two independent sources documented you saying these words. David Shepardson wrote in the Detroit News on November 24, 2009, that you said you ‘did this all for the unions.’ Furthermore, Steven Rattner — your former boss at the Auto Task Force — wrote inOverhaul: An Insider’s Account of the Obama Administration’s Emergency Rescue of the Auto Industry, that at a ‘celebratory dinner’ at Rosa Mexicano on July 21, 2009, that you said ‘I did this all for the unions!'”
