Jesse Jackson's Rented SUV Stolen, Stripped as He Promoted Green Jobs in Detroit
(Sept. 3) -- When the Rev. Jesse Jackson led a rally for "green jobs" in Detroit, he arrived in the Motor City in a massive Cadillac SUV. But his exit from the Motor City was a lot more environmentally friendly -- thanks to some car thieves.
The robbers stole the civil rights activist's rented 2009 Escalade SUV on Monday. He was in Detroit for Saturday's Jobs, Justice and Peace Rally in downtown Detroit.
"We were traveling for Jobs, Justice and Peace and we came [outside the hotel] next morning and it was gone," Jackson told AOL News today in a phone interview. "It was obvious that it was stolen."Police found the car later that day, stripped of its wheels but otherwise intact, WXYZ reported.
Jackson, who led the march along with United Auto Workers President Bob King, said there was nothing contradictory about renting an SUV and promoting green jobs.
"We were promoting a car manufacturer and representing the American worker, whatever car they chose," Jackson said. "My wife has a Smart Car, but for the purposes that we were traveling, the car was -- it fit the bill."
One Detroit columnist disagreed. "Add Jesse to the Al Gore-Tom Friedman-Barack Obama School of Environmental Hypocrisy," Detroit News columnist Henry Payne wrote. "While preaching to Americans that they need to cram their families into hybrid Priuses to go shopping for compact fluorescent light bulbs to save the planet, they themselves continue to live large." ...It's not the first time a high-profile person has had his car stolen in the Motor City in recent days. A GMC Yukon Denali from Detroit Mayor Dave Bing's security detail was stolen and stripped of its rims last week.
Payne: The irony of Jesse Jackson's stripped SUV
Henry Payne / The Michigan View.com - 9-3-10
Add Jesse Jackson’s ride to prominent vehicles being stripped in Detroit.
Following the embarrassing news that Mayor Dave Bing’s GMC Yukon was hijacked by criminals this week, Detroit’s Channel 7 reports that the Reverend’s Caddy Escalade SUV was stolen and stripped of its wheels while he was in town last weekend with the UAW’s militant President Bob King leading the “Jobs, Justice, and Peace” march promoting government-funded green jobs.
Read that again: Jackson’s Caddy SUV was stripped while he was in town promoting green jobs.
Add Jesse to the Al Gore-Tom Friedman-Barack Obama School of Environmental Hypocrisy. While preaching to Americans that they need to cram their families into hybrid Priuses to go shopping for compact fluorescent light bulbs to save the planet, they themselves continue to live large.
September 05, 2010
Jesse Jackson Participates in Wealth Redistribution
As is often true, his participation was involuntary:
Jesse Jackson's car stolen in Detroit
Several Detroit media outlets reported thieves stole Jackson’s ride — a 2009 Cadillac Escalade — from a parking lot near the city’s Doubletree Hotel.
The SUV was later recovered, but it was found without its rims and one of its windows had been broken, according to Detroit’s WXYZ-TV.
Jackson was in Detroit for a march and rally called “Rebuild America: Jobs, Justice and Peace.”
It appears we may be making progress with the “justice” part.
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