Off the Record

Weekly Edition #3823. originally aired Dec. 5, 2008

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The Big Three and the UAW, the smoking ban may go up in smoke and a sheriff and a congressman eye a run for governor.

With the auto companies on the brink, how are Michigan car dealers doing? Ralph Shaheen from the Michigan Auto Dealers Association offers his assessment.

Ralph Shaheen is president of the Michigan Auto Dealers Association, with 750 dealerships as members. Shaheen owns several dealerships in mid-Michigan and has been in the auto sales business since the late 1960s. He is on the frontlines as he and his colleagues confront an auto industry on the brink.

Panelists Rick Pluta, Stephanie Cepak and Kyle Melinn join senior capitol correspondent Tim Skubick.