It seems staffers from Senators Brown (D) and Voinovich’s (R) offices along with Representatives Kucinich (D) and LaTourette (R) in person were fed a tail on a conference call on April 30 according to the Sunday Cleveland Plain Dealer. All on the call were led to believe by Larry Summers there would be no Chrysler plant closings or job losses as a result of Chrysler’s bankruptcy, only to find out the next day the Twinsburg Chrysler plant would be closing, all jobs lost. There would also be plant closings in Michigan, Missouri and Wisconsin while representatives from those states were fed the same spin for the Friday news cycle, no closings and no lost jobs.
The Plain Dealer goes on to highlight the obvious spin that was taking place:
