“Here was the score after Tesla Motors spent more than a year attempting to establish a direct sales operation in New Jersey: 0 to 696,749.
It was a blowout.
The luxe electric car company was outraged Tuesday when the The New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission approved a proposal banning auto manufacturers from selling cars directly to consumers. In a blog post and series of tweets Tesla blamed the move on bad faith negotiating by the administration of Gov. Chris Christie and “attacks” from the New Jersey Coalition of Automotive Retailers. However, if Tesla was indeed under attack, it looks like the company didn’t make any attempt to fight back against the car dealers’ lobby on a crucial political front — the company didn’t give any money to local politicians.
Campaign finance records show, the New Jersey Coalition of Automotive Retailers’ political action committee, CAR PAC, has made hundreds of political donations as the group lobbied on behalf of car dealers in the Garden State. In contrast, records show no donations to any politicians in New Jersey coming from Tesla, its employees, or the company’s co-founder and CEO Elon Musk….”
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