{"id":942,"date":"2018-01-25T19:50:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-25T19:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2018\/01\/25\/state-appoints-tesla-employee-to-motor-vehicle-dealer-board-3-results\/"},"modified":"2018-01-25T19:50:00","modified_gmt":"2018-01-25T19:50:00","slug":"state-appoints-tesla-employee-to-motor-vehicle-dealer-board-3-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/state-appoints-tesla-employee-to-motor-vehicle-dealer-board-3-results\/","title":{"rendered":"State Appoints Tesla Employee to Motor Vehicle Dealer Board. 3 Results."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Virginia Governor McAuliffe\u00a0appointed\u00a0a Tesla Motors Inc. employee to a board that oversees automobile dealers, and here&#8217;s what happened:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Governor became former governor before Senate confirmation<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0Virginia Automobile Dealers Association vocally opposed the appointment<\/li>\n<li>The Senate Committee rejects the appointment.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Background of direct sales in Virginia:\u00a0<\/strong>The\u00a0commissioner of the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles permitted Tesla to open a company-owned store. The Auto Dealer Association filed a lawsuit in response.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What opposition arguments were made by the Auto Dealers Association?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The appointment violates state law because the Tesla appointee is neither an owner or top executive\u00a0of a car dealership.<\/li>\n<li>An employee cannot hold the appointment.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What was the response from Tesla representatives?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>highly unusual if not unprecedented<\/li>\n<li>the vote to reject the appointment &#8220;raises basic questions of fairness and improper political influence&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.richmond.com\/news\/virginia\/government-politics\/general-assembly\/senate-committee-rejects-appointment-of-tesla-employee-to-motor-vehicle\/article_8241f9a9-175c-5866-a4e5-2495d2716b18.html\">Richmond Times Dispatch\u00a0|\u00a0Senate committee rejects appointment of Tesla employee to Motor Vehicle Dealer Board<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virginia Governor McAuliffe\u00a0appointed\u00a0a Tesla Motors Inc. employee to a board that oversees automobile dealers, and here&#8217;s what happened:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Governor became former governor before Senate confirmation<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0Virginia Automobile Dealers Association vocally opposed the appointment<\/li>\n<li>The Senate Committee rejects the appointment.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Background of direct sales in Virginia:\u00a0<\/strong>The\u00a0commissioner of the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles permitted Tesla to open a company-owned store. The Auto Dealer\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,51,48,10,17,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2017-issue","category-2019-issue","category-ev-electric-vehicles","category-legislative-trend","category-motor-vehicles","category-regulatory-trend","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}