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Michigan’s dreams of being “Hollywood East” being scuttled by GOP governor

By on February 24, 2011 in Michigan, Rick Snyder

Several years ago under Democratic Governor of Michigan, Jennifer Granholm, the state Congress passed a very tidy set of tax cuts for filmmakers setting up shop in Michigan. The result has been large numbers of films being made here, spin-off companies starting up and a new movie industry being born in the Midwest. It’s safe to say that, at least in southeast Michigan, nearly everyone knows someone who has been in a movie or a television show, at least as an “extra”, that was filmed here.

When our new Republican Governor, Rick Snyder, the self-named “Nerd Governor” released his budget last week, those tax incentives, along with tax incentives for brownfield development and for companies making batteries for the electric vehicle industry, were eliminated.…


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Who said THAT???!

By on January 21, 2011 in Michigan, Rick Snyder

Who do you suppose said this?:

We will establish an exciting new initiative to encourage immigrants with advanced college degrees to come to Michigan to live and work. I’ve asked the Department of Civil Rights to work with the MEDC in this effort. We need to be a place that openly encourages innovators and entrepreneurs to come to our state. The evidence is clear that advance college degree immigrants make a tremendous difference in creating a positive economic activity environment that benefits us all…Immigration made us a great state and country. It is time we embrace this concept as a way to speed our reinvention.…

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Snyder: Michigan’s economy a wreck due to state employees

By on December 22, 2010 in Michigan, Republicans, Rick Snyder

Wow. Here I thought that Michigan’s economy was suffering because of the massive economic downturn nationally and the near-collapse of the manufacturing sector over the past two years. Apparently I was wrong. According to Rick Snyder, Michigan’s problems are all the fault of government employees.

Rick Snyder, a certified public accountant and businessman who has never before held public office, said Tuesday he plans to confront head-on what he regards as excessive compensation for public-sector employees, including schoolteachers. Further, he said, he will seek to enact reforms in the way the state distributes revenue to local governments and schools as a way to encourage them to consolidate and streamline operations.…

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Rick Snyder gets right to it

By on November 5, 2010 in Michigan, Rick Snyder

Rick Snyder is already on the job reinventing Michigan and stuff. How else do you explain THIS?

LG Chem to build new electrolyte production plant in Holland, Michigan
Governor-elect Rick Snyder Governor Jennifer M. Granholm today announced that LG Chem, the South Korea-based advanced battery manufacturer with operations in Michigan, will establish a new electrolyte production plant in Holland, Michigan, expanding the state’s battery supply chain.

The new electrolyte production plant will be located near LG Chem’s $303 million battery cell plant in Holland which is under construction. The 600,000 square-foot battery cell plant is expected to be fully operational in 2012 with up to 400 employees.

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How the HELL did this happen?

By on November 5, 2010 in Michigan, Republicans, Rick Snyder

How the HELL did Democrats get their clocks cleaned so thoroughly in Michigan on Tuesday?

THIS is how:

About 3.3 million, 45% of the state’s 7.28 million registered voters, participated in the midterm elections, according to unofficial returns.

In contrast, turnout for the last two gubernatorial elections was 47.3% in 2002 and 53.6% in 2006.

When Dems stay home on Election Day, Dems lose. Q.E.D.

Meanwhile, we have now elected a man with absolutely ZERO experience in government to run one of the economically hardest hit states in the country. He’s a complete novice. No experience. What. So. Ever.…


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Why I’m not voting for “Nice Guy” Republicans like Mark Ouimet & Rick Snyder

By on October 27, 2010 in Republicans, Rick Snyder

In Michigan this year, it appears to be the Year of the “Nice Guy” RepublicanTM. We have Rick Snyder running for governor, an Ann Arbor native, and we have Mark Ouimet, a Washtenaw County Commissioner, also from Ann Arbor. They are viewed as “Nice Guys” by many Ann Arbor-area Democrats to the point that many of these Democrats will be splitting their ticket next week to vote for them.

I am not.

Why? Because I have scratched the surface of the campaign’s of both men and found them to be typical Republicans. And if there’s one thing you can say about the Republican Party it’s that they do not let their members go “renegade” and begin working with Democrats once they get into positions of power.…


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Sell the Mackinac Bridge???! – Oh, hellz NO!

By on October 26, 2010 in Michigan, Rick Snyder

Michigan political reporter Tim Skubick noted last week on his blog that Michigan Republican gubernatorial candidate Rick Snyder wouldn’t take selling the Mackinac Bridge off the table.

Absolutely serious.

The Mackinac Bridge is a Michigan icon. It is often how our state is represented in graphical form. Completed in 1957, it was built without the use of a single taxpayer dollar. At five miles long, it is currently the third longest bridge in the world and the longest suspension bridge between anchorages in the Western hemisphere.

Simply put, the Mackinac Bridge IS Michigan. And GOPosauric businessman Rick Snyder has suggested that selling it for a one-time cash infusion to solve Michigan’s financial woes might be under consideration.…


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Rick Snyder: Liar or dumb (or both)?

By on October 20, 2010 in Ann Arbor, Rick Snyder

During the first and only gubernatorial debate of the 2010 season, Rick Snyder made a little-noticed gaffe that proves that he is either ridiculously ill-informed about infrastructure projects in his own backyard (almost literally) or that he’s a liar will to spout lies to promote his agenda (the agenda of getting himself elected governor of Michigan.)

It was little-noticed by everyone except the bicycling/hiking community.

Here’s the part of the debate in question which came the very end:

FINLEY: Okay. We have time for one last question. We all know Michigan has the worst roads in the nation. Mr. Snyder, would you support an increase in the gasoline tax to fix them?…

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Michigan GOP runs another smear robocall/mailing against Christine Green

By on October 11, 2010 in Michigan, Republican-Fail, Republicans, Rick Snyder

The ink hadn’t dried on blog entry about the Christine Green smear campaign being waged by the Michigan Republican Party when I get a FIFTH robocall. At least this time they used a different woman for the robocalls:

[DIFFERENT WOMAN'S VOICE]: Hello. This is Nicole. Our state has been headed in the wrong direction for years. Christine Green will a vote for the failed Granholm policies that have lead to record unemployment. Say no to the failed Granholm business mandates. This November, say no to Christine Green.

The same day came a frightening-looking mailer tying Christine Green and Virg Bernero to Jennifer Granholm and with the same tag line “Vote ‘no’ on Christine Green”.…


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Rick Snyder: Weasel

By on October 7, 2010 in Michigan, Republican-Fail, Rick Snyder

I’m sorry but the only description I can come up with after reading this is “weasel”.

The Michigan League of Conservation Voters shouldn’t hold its breath waiting for Republican Rick Snyder to answer a questionnaire mailed to both gubernatorial candidates this week…

The Ann Arbor businessman “doesn’t fill out questionnaires,” Snyder spokesman Bill Nowling said. Snyder plans to ignore the league’s query, as well as another one announced Tuesday by the Citizens Alliance on Prisons and Public Spending. “Questionnaires are a fixture of the special interest culture in Lansing,” Nowling said.

He might as well have said, “Questionnaires are for losers” or “Questionnaires are for people way behind in the polls.”

Rick Snyder, once again taking Republican voters’ votes for granted.…


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