Was he pushed? Did he jump?
We members of the chattering class might otherwise spend weeks debating why General Motors CEO “resigned” on Tuesday. Or at least we would have had the 51-year-old executive’s daughter, Sarah Henderson, not weighed in with a blunt and profanity-laced, er, clarification of the day’s events.
Cleaning up the missive, posted on Facebook isn’t easy, but in brief, Ms. Henderson stated, “He f…ing got asked to step down all of you f.ing idiots. IM Fritz’s f…ing daughter and he did not f…ing resign. Whitacre is a selfish piece of s…, who cares about himself and not the f…ing company. Have fun with GM, I hope to never buy from this god forsaken company again. F… all of you.
Ouch. We’ll suggest that if you prefer a full and complete transcript you turn to the report by the folks who broke the story, our less self-censoring colleagues at Jalopnik.
But despite the rather unequivocal case laid out by Henderson’s daughter, it still leaves more than a few questions to be answered, including why he got crossways with Whitacre, the former AT&T chairman, who was appointed GM’s chairman by the federal auto task force following the automaker’s emergence from bankruptcy, in July.
Whitacre declined to answer questions following a brief statement, Tuesday afternoon. He promised to be more forthcoming with the media “in the next few days.”
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Henderson-gate!