TROY, Mich. (AP) -- Michigan's auto industry would have an ally in the White House with George W. Bush as president, former Chrysler Corp. Chairman Lee Iacocca said Wednesday.
Democrat Al Gore, however, would threaten the industry at all levels, Iacocca said in remarks to the Oakland County Business Roundtable.
Republican Bush is "the only candidate in this race who will not over-regulate the auto industry or pursue policies that will wreck it," Iacocca said. "He understands people like us, people who live and breathe cars."
Brandishing a copy of Gore's 1992 book, "Earth in the Balance," Iacocca read a passage in which Gore called the internal combustion engine "a mortal threat to the security of every nation."
"If everyone in Michigan read this book ... " Iacocca said.
"It'd be over," interjected Gov. John Engler, who introduced Iacocca and, like other Republicans, has cited Gore's book as evidence of his hostility toward the auto industry. Polls show Gore and Bush deadlocked in Michigan, however.
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