Detroit News reporter confirms the Tsar WH auto comment "I did all this to the unions", says it was a joke (calling daily)

The President Barack Obama auto bailout Czar Ron Bloom is under fire by the Monitoring Committee of House for a prounion comment he made in 2009.

In 2009, David Shepardson, reporter for The Detroit News, wrote that Bloom told a dinner audience "I did it for the unions." His testimony under oath a hearing June monitoring Subcommittee, however, Bloom denied making these comments.

Republican Rep. Dan Burton, Indiana, Bloom asked the comment. Bloom replied that it is not said. Thus, Burton asked him he thinks it was "wrong". Bloom said "it is true."

Burton said that he would call randomized and ask him if Bloom said and recalled Bloom, he was under oath. "I am fully aware," Bloom said.

In an e-mail message to the daily caller, randomized confirmed that Bloom made the remark, but that it was a joke. "Our history of 2009 was based on stories from first-hand several [sic] people who are present and said fact Bloom note joke," said randomized.

Burton and the Oversight Committee Chair Rep. Darrell Issa, a California Republican, wrote to the proliferation of end of last week offering him the opportunity to clarify his statements to the Commission. (Private e-mails detail Obama admin involvement in bailing out post-GM to cut non-unionized retreats)

Randomized broadcast is not the only place that Bloom was quoted as saying that. Wall Street figure and key rescue player Steven Rattner CITES Bloom by saying that he too in his book of September 2010.

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