There are choices in November vote
An excellent Letter-to-the-Editor appeared in today’s Daily Press & Argus from regular contributor Ed Radlowski. In three paragraphs he summed up what we have been saying all along. Great job, Mr. Radlowski, and keep them coming. The people of Livingston County now have some great choices instead of the status quo that has done nothing for the county or their districts.
Now that the Republican-controlled state Legislature has voted to rescind the Single Business Tax, you can be sure of at least three things:
Nothing will be done until after the November elections to find replacements for the lost revenue; 2. Our current representatives, Joe Hune and Chris Ward, will make sure that special interests who provide for them, including factory farms and land developers, will not be affected; and 3. If the two are still around, the working people in their districts will be paying more in taxes or getting less in services.
There are alternatives. Two well-qualified candidates will be running against these professional politicians in the fall. Mary Andersson in the 47th District and Mike McGonegal in the 66th District have a good understanding of what living and working in a community is all about. Mary has been a teacher for more than 30 years, and Mike has been a businessman for a like amount of time. Why wouldn't we want people with real-life experience looking out for our interests?
Ed Radlowski
Brighton
posted by Communications guru @ 8:49 AM
2 Comments:
Guru, As per your above comments on Chris Ward doing nothing to help our great state then one must assume that you are for Dick DeVos as our current Governor has done nothing to help our great state.
· Michigan has lost a higher percentage of manufacturing jobs since 2000 than any other state. More than 75 percent of the residents say the state is on the wrong track, the worst case of pessimism in Michigan in 20 years.
· About one in five children in Michigan lived in poverty, up from six years ago.
· Almost a third of the state's African Americans lived below the poverty level.
· Detroit remained one of the poorest big cities in the country with almost a third of its residents living below the poverty line.
· Cities and townships posted drops in median household incomes ranging from 24 percent to 6 percent and poverty rates increased in all but three cities.
· Detroit, with 31 percent of its residents living below the poverty line, remains one of the poorest big cities in the country, neck and neck with Cleveland at 32 percent of its residents living in poverty.
· Michigan has lost one job for every 10 minutes Granholm's been in office.
Sharon Parks, a spokeswoman for the Michigan League for Human Services, a Lansing-based anti-poverty group. "What's more important is the poverty rate. It's an indication of the level of need out there that is not being addressed. It should serve as a real wake-up call."
The poverty rates in a number of Michigan counties were significantly higher than the statewide average of 13.2 percent in 2005, including Muskegon County, with a poverty rate of 14.9 percent. Isabella County in mid-Michigan had the highest rate at 24.2 percent, followed by Wayne (19.5 percent), Berrien (18.9 percent), Ingham (18.8 percent) and Saginaw (17.5 percent).
The child poverty rate, covering children 18 years or younger was 21.3 percent in Muskegon County, higher than the state average of 18.5 percent. It was the highest in Berrien County in southwest Michigan at 30.6 percent. The remaining four counties in the top five for child poverty were Wayne (29.1 percent), Van Buren (25 percent), Saginaw (24.9 percent) and Genesee (23.6 percent).
http://www.livingstondaily.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060903/NEWS01/609030308/1002
From Argus 9/3/06
Well robo poster, even though I answered the very same rant before I’ll answer it again.
All of the stats you cite are true, liberal. Why doesn’t the no-nothing Legislature where Ward is the leader of that obstructionist group as the No. 3 man in seniority shoulder any of the blame? Do you think those dire indicators happened in just three short years? Is the Governor to blame for the auto industry slump? You should read what I posted here on 8/25/06.
“a weak auto industry - not high taxes - are at the heart of Michigan's struggling economy, and that “Michigan has lagged behind the rest of the nation since 2000 almost entirely because of the decline of Michigan's automakers,” according to a story Tuesday in the Lansing State Journal.
The governor has a plan, and despite the legislative leaders doing whatever they can to stay in power, grab more power and make her look bad it has attracted more than 26 companies to the state and retained more. Here’s a link, http://www.granholmforgov.com/site/PageServer?pagename=jobs_map.
The difference between Mike and the Amway guy is Mike has double the business experience he has, and it has actually been successful business experience. Mike has also has experience in government as well, and the Amway guy doesn’t. Mike has actually had the experience of working for a living, raising a family and putting his kids through college in this tight economy.
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