Now, it's easy to pick on the Pure Michigan campaign.  Granholm's spending millions of dollars telling Michigan residents how great it is to visit Michigan (though the ads seem to be in a much more limited rotation since the November election).  Heck, it's easy to pick on the validity of their survey instrument.  The way a question is phrased directly affects the answers that are received.  When an instrument uses biased or leading language it's called "push polling."

But each of those issues pales in comparison to the fact an out-of-state research firm has been hired by the Granholm administration to conduct the survey and run the numbers.  Unlike golf pencils, there are plenty of Michigan companies doing public opinion polling, surveys, research, data mining and management and web targeting.  

The simple truth is that despite the rhetoric and campaign promises Michigan jobs are being outsourced to Maine.  Probably because labor costs are so low out there on the East Coast.  (Note sarcasm.)  

Apparently the governor's word and an EO weren't enough to ensure her own administration stopped outsourcing Michigan jobs.  One wonders what other Michigan jobs the governor's sent to other states.  Is this just the tip of the iceberg?  

We're sending jobs and investment to other states to try to figure out what folks think about Michigan?

Jennifer Granholm should pull the plug on DPA today and return these jobs and investment to Michigan where they belong.  But beyond that Speaker Dillon should move immediately to pull funding for the ad campaign until the administration can demonstrate they've brought every job and every dollar home.  He should also begin an investigation today to ensure this isn't happening in other departments.

Average Michiganders don't need polling results to see what others think of Michigan. They see their friends, neighbors and children voting with their feet as they move to other states.  The governor should be ashamed for forcing their exodus by sending jobs to other states.