Alabama

GOP defends state subsidies in ‘New Detroit’; southern states gave auto firms tax-breaks and cash for training.

Michigan blogger Marcy Wheeler points out that a lot of the ruckus we’ve heard against any effort to bailout the Big Three automakers comes from a predictable group of legislators. Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Alabama), for instance, is the most prominent anti-bailout spokesperson; one could hardly believe it to be coincidence that Sen. Shelby’s state [...]