Two of the state's most successful venture capitalists, Rick Snyder and Chris Rizik, have started a new Ann Arbor-based VC fund that will invest in nanotechnology, life-science and alternative-energy companies in the Midwest.

The new fund will be called Ardesta Ventures I.

A vote last week by the board of the Michigan Strategic Fund approving an investment of up to $7.5 million in the fund finally made official what has been something of an ill-kept secret in the local venture-capital community.

Its how the game is played right?  Pay for more pay.. or play..  And in this case Snyder knew the players quite well.  The rules may well have had his signature all over them, as he was at one time, the first chair of the political favors unit.  Who better to know the rules than the guy who wrote them?  And if you know who to wine and dine that doesn't hurt the case..

Success.. thy name is "knowledge.."

So Rick must have "known" how to play the political favors game quite well, and also played it from the dark side reaching across the aisle to pad Mr Dingell's campaign coffers as well.  Indeed at some point, this savvy businessman must surely have expected to run into Dingell's interference and paid the price up front for a seat at the table.  Perhaps a "paltry" couple of thousand dollars to the venture capitalist who was able to take taxpayer dollars for his own ventures, but certainly enough for the salt of the earth John Dingell to take notice.

So the question we must ask now MR. Snyder..  Will you use your favor to have Dingell vote against this monstrosity that is called "health care reform?"  Will you use you your dispensation of wealth to encourage the congressman to join others, who (even in his own party) disagree with the manner in which this albatross of epic proportions is being hung round our necks?

Maybe you might.. Except perhaps YOU would like federal funding for Abortion as well?

Indeed, as the bells toll for the unborn, your very own investments and the taxpayer funds given to you already mandate that end for our children, do they not?  What becomes of those embryos now "legally" dissected in the facilities bought with your "venture" dollars?  

Life Sciences research and experimentation investments by Ardesta in Michigan subsidized by taxpayers...  

And now he wants to reign in that nasty ol monstrosity known as the MEDC?

"It's gotten out of control," he said in an interview. "There should be very limited use of tax incentives."

Limited?  Maybe only Hypocrites need apply?  Maybe only those who know how to game the system should try?

But I digress.. we were talking about Dingell..