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Tag: Strange bedfellows

So, what was Schuette's cut?

By Corinthian Scales, Section News
Posted on Mon Nov 04, 2013 at 11:30:17 AM EST
Tags: Robert Ficano, John Rakolta Jr, Wayne County Business Development Corporation, Strange bedfellows, The Ed McNamara Machine, Mike Duggan, NERD Fund, Rich Baird, Kevyn Orr, Andy Dillon, Michigan Democratic Party, Slick Rick, Mr. 36%, Snyder, Ron Boji, The Flim-Flam Man, Transparency, One Term Nerd, The alleged right shoe smells just as bad as the Left, Cronyism, 11th District Republican Star Chamber, memory holes, Michigan Romney Campaign, Dave Trott, Richardville, AG Bill Schuette, Dan Gilbert (all tags)

How the allegedly unbiased State AG hasn't raided Rakolta's Walbridge offices becomes... rather glaring.

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The Daily Dillon

By Corinthian Scales, Section News
Posted on Thu Aug 22, 2013 at 11:56:17 AM EST
Tags: Transparency, Slick Rick, Mr. 36%, Snyder, The Flim-Flam Man, Andy Dillon, alleged paramour, Dillon House staffer, Amy U. Hichez, Redford Twp. Parks Commissioner, Miles Handy, Wayne County Corruption Lives On, Robert Ficano, The Ed McNamara Machine, Mike Duggan, NERD Fund, Rich Baird, Kevyn Orr, Detroit, Michigan Democratic Party, Obama, Julianna Smoot & Lon Johnson, Unions, AstroTurf, Thugs, Bullies, SB-992, Bobby ShowStak, Republican kakistocracy, Grand Rapids Power Brokers, Feral Government, Rodney Stokes, Strange bedfellows, The alleged right shoe smells just as bad as the Left, Wayne County Business Development Corporation, Laura Cox, John Rakolta Jr, AG Bill Shuette, Mitt Romney, 11th District Republican Star Chamber, Mike Cox, Scarlet letters, memory holes, TEA Movement, One Term Nerd (all tags)

This is a sorta fun development for Conservatives watching what the Snyder administration has placed into its own lap. Remember what Terry Stanton (same office of Amy Hichez) stated about our Treasury Dept., just yesterday?

"Any personal issues he is working through have not, in any way, affected his performance as State Treasurer."

Pure Bee-esS. Meet current Treasury Department "Executive Assistant," and former Dillon House staffer ($56,000.00), Amy U. Hichez.

State Treasurer Andy Dillon's secretary sued his ex-wife for defamation Wednesday for claiming she had an affair with her boss.
In a lawsuit filed in Wayne County Circuit Court, Amy U. Hichez denied having an affair with Andy Dillon - allegations Carol Owens-Dillon publicly leveled in a July 7 posting on her Facebook page.
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Owens-Dillon stood by the allegations Wednesday.
"I'm surprised she is doing this because she will be putting her boss negatively in the press and I'm quite sure he doesn't need that," Owens-Dillon said in a statement to The News.

Indeed. What further defamation is possible with those who sit in government with Andy and his buddy, Miles Handy? Yet, much like Hillary Clinton, and Huma Abedin, the slovenly attired self-invented Nerd persona is going to stand by his man. Frillant move for the Executive branch of state government that is the flagship of the MI-GOP.

That down-ticket vote for "Team R" will suffer in 2014. That is just a 'No boundaries' Rick Michigan, enabling - fact.

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A Message To Our Legislators - Beware False Choices

Because Leopards Change Their Spots

By Corinthian Scales, Section News
Posted on Wed Aug 21, 2013 at 10:17:19 AM EST
Tags: Transparency, Slick Rick, Mr. 36%, Snyder, The Flim-Flam Man, Andy Dillon, Miles Handy, Wayne County Corruption Lives On, Robert Ficano, The Ed McNamara Machine, Mike Duggan, NERD Fund, Rich Baird, Kevyn Orr, Detroit, Michigan Democratic Party, Obama, Julianna Smoot & Lon Johnson, Unions, AstroTurf, Thugs, Bullies, SB-992, Bobby ShowStak, Republican kakistocracy, Grand Rapids Power Brokers, Feral Government, Rodney Stokes, Strange bedfellows, The alleged right shoe smells just as bad as the Left, Wayne County Business Development Corporation, Laura Cox, John Rakolta Jr, AG Bill Shuette, Mitt Romney, 11th District Republican Star Chamber, Mike Cox, memory holes, TEA Movement, One Term Nerd (all tags)

Germans have the coolest words for such things involving the Rick Snyder experiment. For example, take the self-invented Nerd persona's selection for state Treasurer.

Pure Schadenfreude.

Dillon has acknowledged a bout with alcoholism while being the governor's point man for handling financially distressed cities and school districts.
But now the Wayne County Prosecutor's Office is considering a domestic assault charge against Dillon stemming from a July 13 confrontation with his ex-wife, Carol Owens-Dillon, at their Redford Township home.
Dillon, a former Democratic speaker of the state House of Representatives, and the Snyder administration are not answering questions about his alleged actions.
"We do not believe it is appropriate to respond to speculation," Snyder spokesman Dave Murray said Tuesday in a statement. "Gov. Snyder believes Treasurer Dillon is doing a good job on behalf of the people of Michigan."

Again, zero transparency from Rick Snyder. Sure Dave Murray, we little people "believe" you too. Just try boozing as a "point man" in the Private Sector, and see how long it takes to be shown the door. And, this is a so-called Executive's decision? Amazing. Fact remains that Rick Snyder owns that appointment, and isn't man enough to deal with his can of worms - but, he'll have to before long. There's more...

"Treasurer Dillon is in the office and on the job every day, working diligently as always for the people of the State of Michigan," spokesman Terry Stanton said in an email. "Any personal issues he is working through have not, in any way, affected his performance as State Treasurer."

12 years of taxpayer funded professional turd polishing just can't be wrong, yes? Survey says...

A Wayne County Family Court judge has issued a mutual restraining order against Dillon and his ex-wife after they filed competing personal protection orders against each other.
The acrimony stems from a July 13 incident at the Dillon residence in Redford Township where Carol Owens-Dillon alleges her ex-husband hired a tow truck driver to break into a vehicle she was driving that contained her divorce files. In court records, Owens-Dillon claims she had "racially-charged text messages" in the file that she intended to deliver to Snyder.

D'oh! Really. Who could've foreseen the years of dysfunction that Andy Dillon, would bring to an alleged Republican administration? Hmmm, I wonder...

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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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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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