Tag: Jennifer Granholm (page 4)

A state agency did a poor job of tracking community revitalization grants and on dozens of occasions paid cities twice to demolish the same home, according to an audit released Friday.

The report by Auditor General Thomas McTavish also said the Michigan State Housing Development Authority "did not follow sound business practices" in awarding personal service contracts, including a $340,000 no-bid contract to a consultant.

Further, the report - which covered a period from July 2006 through June 2009 -- questioned whether the agency has authority to spend money on programs not related to affordable housing and said it should seek an attorney general's opinion on that question.

The housing development agency said in its written response it agrees with six of the report's 13 recommendations, partly agrees with four and disagrees with three.

The audit looked at $6.6 million demolition grants awarded under the Cities of Promise program to reduce blight in Detroit, Benton Harbor, Flint, Hamtramck, Highland Park, Muskegon Heights, Pontiac and Saginaw.

We Michiganders are fully aware of the skill set that Jennifer Granholm and her trophy husband, Daniel Mulhern, brought to the Michigan statehouse.

Under Granholm's leadership the state became a wasteland of vacant homes and shuttered storefronts. The only good good news was that business was brisk in both the outbound moving van and Michigan Works! staffing sectors of the economy. For half of her time in office, Michigan led the nation in unemployment and was the only state in the union to actually lose population during the decade that contained her administration.

And this is the experienced perch from which Michigan's dynamic duo will point out to the rest of us 'six cost-efficient ways to create jobs.'

Before we explore the list, can we not at least ask an important question? If these two were so smart when they had tens of thousands of state employees and agencies at their beck and call, why didn't they use some of their expertise to, you know, actually help get Michigan's economy moving?

Unemployment has taken a toll on children in Michigan, with 36 percent living in families in which neither parent has a full-time, year-round job, according to a report out today.

Michigan has more children living without a working parent than 46 other states, according to the 22nd annual Kids Count Data Book by the Annie E. Casey Foundation.

Alaska tied Michigan, and only Kentucky at 38 percent and Mississippi at 39 percent had more kids in households that lack secure parental employment in 2009.

Yep, all the while overcompensated public sector union slugs gather in their yellow shirts and ready themselves to strike.  Amazing.

A state audit released Tuesday identifies a lack of financial controls and millions of dollars in questionable purchases in the state welfare department, including state employees using taxpayer funds to sell welfare clients cars the employees purchased and the bulk purchase of gift cards in large denominations.

Due to a failure to separate accounting duties for purchases in the Department of Human Services, the same state employees in many cases created invoices, processed invoices, and then approved the checks to pay the invoices, said the report by Michigan Auditor General Thomas McTavish.

Also, the department reimbursed state welfare employees for the purchase of personal computers and other electronic items without documenting the items were ever provided to state welfare clients, or in some cases, ever purchased in the first place, the audit said.

"Another guy guv admits 2 cheating on his wife," Granholm posted on the social media site, using abbreviations that are often needed to fit messages into Twitter's 140-character limit. "Maybe we need more women governors. Guys: Keep ur pants zipped, for Pete's sake.

More women governors?  Is that so, Mrs. Granholm?  Perhaps a little trip back in the not so way-back machine.

Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm said she won't apologize to Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin for her crack at last weekend's Gridiron Dinner that the former Republican vice presidential candidate "really set back the cause of hot governors."

At the exclusive Washington dinner on Saturday, which was packed with top elected officials, Granholm also used the quip to needle Pennsylvania's governor. "You know where I'm coming from, Ed Rendell," she said.

Ah, I see.  So, it must then be just those Pro-Abortion EMILY's List type Progressive Soros funded women that former Governor Granholm associates with that she's referring to.  This also must go in observation of the very delusional Mrs. Granholms' narcissism with her self-comparison to what any possessing sight would consider pleasing to the eye.  "Hot governors", Mrs. Granholm?  You over Palin?  Seriously?

I make no apologies that when I'm within the earshot range of one merely mentioning the name Jennifer Granholm that THIS immediately comes to my mind.  It.  Never.  Fails.

That bunion won't be bothering you any more. However, we did have to chop that right foot off just below the elbow.

The Ludington Daily News is reporting today that the unemployment rate for its four county readership area has dropped significantly over the last year.

The local unemployment rates for November were:

    * 12.4 percent for Mason County, compared to 14.2 percent in 2009

    * 12.6 percent for Manistee County, compared to 13.8 in 2009

    * 14.5 percent for Oceana County, compared to 16.7 in 2009

    * 14.4 percent for Lake County, compared to 17.2 percent

These are huge differences even if the new numbers remain disastrously high. Mason's dropped 1.8 percent. Manistee's dropped 1.2 percent. Oceana's dropped 2.2 percent. And Lake County's unemployment rate plummeted a whopping 2.8 percent.