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To My Friends and Supporters,

After considerable thought, prayer and consultation with Betsy and our family, I have concluded that my ability to impact the future of Michigan will be more significant at this time from outside government, instead of inside. So to allow me to do what I have always done best, that is to create jobs and opportunity in the private sector, I will not be a candidate for Governor in 2010.

This has been an especially difficult decision since so many of you have been encouraging of me, both during my prior campaign, but also since the 2006 election. Your encouragement and friendship have been tremendous gifts to me.


In order to be able to speak to you personally, I have posted a brief video message on the "Right Michigan" website which you can access directly by following the link below.

http://www.rightmichigan.com/story/2008/11/12/13559/403 (http://tracking.technomania.com/cgi-bin/track.cgi?11-14698-1914660-69994)

Thank you, but most of all thank you for your friendship!

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Ledezma is shattered.

Ledezma is shattered.

I am sorry to hear that but thank you for your friendship!

I suspect he'll be funding Hoekstra's 2010 run for Governor.

Ledezma is shattered.


Mike Cox would've gotten the Republican nomination anyway.

Mike Cox will win Governor.

Fitting name for a guy who'd be one of the many cocks Fredo blindly shoves down his esophagus for the conservative cause.

LOL pwnt

Mike Cox would've gotten the Republican nomination anyway.

Mike Cox will win Governor.
I'd bet on Rogers over Cox and Bishop -- and that's just the Mikes. :)

3 choices... Mike Cox, Ben Hard, L Otts Lately.

LOL@ the bold part below


Archer says he won’t run for governor

By Chad Halcom
Crain's Detroit Business

Former Detroit Mayor Dennis Archer announced Thursday he will not make a bid to run for governor in 2010, after months of gauging interest from voters and the business community.

Archer, 66, was viewed as a possible contender for the job after Gov. Jennifer Granholm leaves the post due to term limits.

But he told a small crowd of supporters and the media at the Detroit Regional Chamber offices that a two-year campaign would force him to abandon other career pursuits and time with his family.

“I would have to marry the state,” he said about forgoing the gubernatorial race. “The state is worth marrying, but I was not (personally) ready to make that decision.”

Archer is board chairman of Detroit-based Dickinson Wright P.L.L.C., and a former president of the American Bar Association. He was also Detroit Regional Chamber president in 2006-07, and mayor from 1994 to 2001.

Archer said the duties of mayor often had him working 16 to 18 hour days and the governor’s position could only be more demanding, particularly adding in travel time to its various commitments.

But he added that state government has lacked leadership in recent years and that its recent change of tax structure from the Single Business Tax to the Michigan Business Tax had “hurt small business, and had unintended consequences for larger businesses.”

What Lansing lacks is a strong sense of leadership and it has a real need to use the bully pulpit in politics, he said.

“The job grants the opportunity to get the public involved in their government, and when the bully pulpit isn’t used then the legislature feels free to act however they want, or how they are lobbied.”

He also fended off speculation that he has expectations of a federal appointment with the Obama administration in January.

Granholm could possibly vacate her post early if selected by Obama for a cabinet position, and Lt. Gov. John Cherry is expected to run for the office in 2010.

Flint Mayor Don Williamson already has announced his gubernatorial candidacy, and ex-Michigan State University head football coach George Perles also expects to run, both as Democrats.

From the GOP, possible candidates include State Attorney General Mike Cox, who has formed an exploratory committee; U.S. Rep. Candice Miller; and David Brandon, chairman and CEO of Ann Arbor-based Domino’s Pizza Inc.

Archer also said not joining the gubernatorial fray means he also passes up on the bully pulpit himself, a decision that did not come easy.

“As a recovering former politician, I still do sometimes get the notion,” he said.

I heard Perles on NPR, he wants to cut corp. taxes by 80%.

HEAVENS TO BETSY

HATE the DeVos family.

Mortifying.

If anyone feels like elaborating??? I realize Don asked his wife to run DOE? Hope she puts an end to teachers union.

But Dick is a dick, why? Not following. I don't know a thing about him.

Mortifying.

Yep. She's been turning public schools into money making ventures in Michigan for years, and the students are performing worse, which is really nice bonus!

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/11/23/us/politics/betsy-devos-trumps-education-pick-has-steered-money-from-public-schools.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur&_r=0&referer=http://m.facebook.com

Nice infographic

http://m.motherjones.com/politics/2014/01/devos-family-foundations-heritage-americans-prosperity-blackwater

If anyone feels like elaborating??? I realize Don asked his wife to run DOE? Hope she puts an end to teachers union.

That kind of goes against the "bring all the jobs back home" rhetoric. I mean we end the teachers union and you got teachers making $12 hour with no benefits and nobody is going to want to teach. Not sure why the "right" gets a boner bringing down the working folks. Trump is going to put everyone through the ringer and I'm going to sit back and laugh. I want Sean Hannity running a department. Burn this country down.

It's cool that the guy who just had to pay $25 million for starting a fraudulent university is now picking the next Secretary of Education.

^ LOL. Nice take. srs

https://www.vox.com/first-person/2018/8/6/17654434/betsy-devos-yacht-mcmansion-hell

Not only is the DeVos family a group of scam artists and thieves, they also have shit taste in architecture.