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Tag: Michigan Strategic Fund

Lansing Still Wants to Raise our Gas and Diesel Tax?

By Corinthian Scales, Section News
Posted on Fri Oct 18, 2013 at 10:46:02 AM EST
Tags: Slick Rick, Mr. 36%, Snyder, Ron Boji, MDOT, Robert Ficano, memory holes, Wayne County Business Development Corporation, John Rakolta Jr, Jail to Nowhere, Dan Gilbert, Feral Government, Michigan Strategic Fund, Affirmative Action Meets The Peter Principle, The Ed McNamara Machine, Mike Duggan, Rich Baird, Cronyism, Kevyn Orr, NERD Fund, Transparency, Michigan Banana Republican Party, Snydercaid, The Flim-Flam Man, One Term Nerd (all tags)

The alleged Party of principle, strikes again.

Gov. Rick Snyder today announced the appointment of Ron Boji, of Orchard Lake, to the state Transportation Commission.
The six-member commission is the policy-making body for all state transportation programs.
"Ron has enjoyed a distinguished career and I look forward to his contributions to this important commission," Snyder said.

Hey, it's a Nerdy job but, somebody's got to do it...

Yippie! Federal road monies for Ron to run his fingers through.

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Hellooooo, John Rakolta

By Corinthian Scales, Section News
Posted on Fri Aug 16, 2013 at 08:17:47 PM EST
Tags: Robert Ficano, The Ed McNamara Machine, Mike Duggan, Michigan Democratic Party, Andy Dillon, Miles Handy, Wayne County Corruption Lives On, Jumana Judeh, Ficano's realtor squeeze, Turkia Awada Mullin, Cronyism, John Don't Trust-cott, retained Chattering Class, Feral Government, Strange bedfellows, The alleged right shoe smells just as bad as the Left, Wayne County Business Development Corporation, John Rakolta Jr, AG Bill Shuette, Mitt Romney, memory holes, Slick Rick, Mr. 36%, Snyder, The Flim-Flam Man, Ron Boji, Michigan Strategic Fund, NERD Fund, Dan Gilbert, One Term Nerd (all tags)

"You've heard of the bridge to nowhere? Welcome to the jail for no one."

Told ya. You're getting warmer, Ross. However, that jail for no one will be gobbled up by Dan Gilbert for pennies on the dollar.

And, you've got a whole gaggle of MI-GOP bootlickers who watched Rakolta line his pockets, main one being, the State AG. Next question would reasonably be, what did the wife of former State AG (Commissioner Laura Cox) know, and when did she know it?

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A Message To Our Legislators - Beware False Choices

Ross, Show More Concern With Gov. Snyder

By Corinthian Scales, Section News
Posted on Fri Jun 07, 2013 at 11:44:23 AM EST
Tags: Snyder, Ron Boji, Michigan Strategic Fund, NERD Fund, Robert Ficano, Jumana Judeh, Ficano's realtor squeeze, Turkia Awada Mullin, Cronyism, John Don't Trust-cott, retained Chattering Class, Feral Government, Strange bedfellows, The alleged right shoe smells just as bad as the Left, Dan Gilbert, Wayne County Business Development Corporation, memory holes, John Rakolta Jr (all tags)

I really appreciate WXYZ's Ross Jones. He's perhaps one of the finest investigative reporters in SE Michigan.

Yes, that Inkster property. So, naturally Gov. Snyder, brings Ron Boji into the Lansing fold in the Big Money State slush fund. Note: "acting as the fiduciary agent for the 21st Century Jobs Fund." RM readers can't say they weren't aware. Associations matter.

Then, in Wayne County, there is also John Rakolta, who sits on the Board of the quasi-governmental "Development" entity capable of influencing bids on Ficano projects that John's company Walbridge Aldinger, just happens to be constructing the Jail to Nowhere, is also now pocketing the millions in "cost overruns". Mighty convenient coincidence for Dan Gilbert, to make suggestion of taking that boondoggle jail property off the county's hands, assumedly, for pennies on the dollar, isn't it?

If only a corporate mouthpiece hadn't clued Johnny in with saying something to the effect, "are you out of your flipping mind while sitting on the WCBDC Board?" when that downtown crony "loan" to freshly out jail felony convict Kwame was made.

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Snatching Defeat From The Jaws of Victory

By Corinthian Scales, Section News
Posted on Tue Jun 19, 2012 at 09:12:01 AM EST
Tags: Rick Snyder, Ann Arbor SPARK, Mary Sue Coleman, U of M, Jennifer Granholm, Bill Milliken, Michigan Job Development Authority, Jim Blanchard, Michigan Strategic Fund, Progressives, Crony Capitalism, Public-Private Partnerships, Stem Cell Research, Ardesta LLC, Vulture Capitalist, Joke is on The Taxpayer, TEA movement, I marked my 2010 ballot and all I got was Bigger Government and No R-T-W (all tags)

via MCC

A state fund intended to create 390 Michigan jobs has loaned $7.7 million to 35 companies and created 79 jobs - only 20 percent of the number initially promised.
Ann Arbor SPARK received an $8 million grant in 2006 to create the Michigan Pre-Seed Capital Fund, which used $7.7 million of that amount. The grant was awarded as part of the Competitive Edge Technology Grants and Loans program, which exists "to encourage the development of competitive edge technologies to create jobs in the state."
Skip Simms, manager of the Michigan Pre-Seed Capital Fund, said in an email, "We saw a need for early stage capital for start-up technology based companies, which the private sector wasn't providing at the time."
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