Copyright 2015 Nashville Public Radio. To see more, visit DAVID GREENE, HOST: Volkswagen admitted that it did something sneaky. As we've reported, the company put software in diesel vehicles that helped cheat emissions tests. Officials from VW took their lumps testifying in Congress this month but not so at a legislative hearing yesterday in Chattanooga, Tenn., where the company has its only U.S. plant. Blake Farmer from member station WPLN says it was a lovefest by comparison.BLAKE FARMER, BYLINE: There are certainly angry Volkswagen customers scattered around the world, ready to chuck their diesel cars that they thought were cleaner than they are. But in Tennessee, it's a different story.PAM HURST: I still respect them. I just - I pray for them every day (laughter) that they'll come out of this because I think they will.FARMER: Pam Hurst works for the county government in Chattanooga where she says Volkswagen's arrival in 2009 changed the city's economic fortunes. Before yesterday's
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