With the way he operates, one does wonder if the State Troopers chauffeur him around in a Pontiac Aztek.
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2015 MIGOP State Convention, Cronyism, Elections, Michigan, Opinion, Proposal 15-1, Taxes
MDOT: Does Governor Snyder Have a Cousin in Railroads too!?!?
by Corinthian Scales • • 16 Comments
MDOT is a gift that keeps on giving fodder against a 16.7% sales tax hike scheme.
The State of Michigan is paying $1.1 million a year to lease 23 passenger rail cars it can’t use — and likely won’t use for at least another two years — as the taxpayer tab for the troubled project approaches $12 million and counting.
The 1950s and ’60s-era double-decker cars are sitting in a rail yard in Owosso, where they are expected to remain for the indefinite future.
The Michigan Department of Transportation started leasing the cars in 2010 for two commuter rail passenger services proposed between Detroit and Ann Arbor, and Howell and Ann Arbor.
….Sen. Goeff Hansen, R-Hart, chairman of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, said he doesn’t want to say much until he has more information on the contract. The deal was signed during the administration of former Gov. Jennifer Granholm, a Democrat, but amended four times during the administration of Snyder, a Republican — each time to increase the contract’s maximum cost.
Interesting, yes? Speaks volumes how the players on Team R continue to dare not speak out of turn about their beloved Party leader, yes?
What’s even more interesting is the owner, Louis P. Ferris, Jr., who has been networking with the Peoples Republic of Ann Arbor’s Socialist former mayor for the past decade.
P3 projects. Public funds. Private profit. Partnership to extort our money by force of government bureaucrats.
Asked whether he can find $1.2 billion in the state’s $52 billion total budget (federal & state funds), @onetoughnerd simply replies: “No.”
— Chad Livengood (@ChadLivengood) January 12, 2015
No? But of course, Mr. Transparent.
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(21)Nuh Uh.(0)Cronyism, Michigan, Opinion
Would you be Arrested on the Spot?
by Corinthian Scales • • 5 Comments
This should be interesting to follow.
Police on Wednesday and early Thursday were looking for a man pictured on a gas station surveillance camera after a 24-year-old woman was injured about 5 p.m. Wednesday. The suspect was later identified as John Calley, a 25-year-old who spoke with Ionia County sheriff’s investigators Thursday, Jan. 29.
The woman reportedly was dragged and run over by an SUV after it pulled away from a gas station on State Road at I-96. She apparently was trying to get back into the vehicle while it was pulling away.
Police believe the woman was a passenger in the SUV when it stopped at the Pilot gas station and she got out.
And, Ionia County with a Republican prosecutor who happens to be a past president of the legalese jihadi cabal. What else could possibly be an influence on their Sheriff’s decision to kick the can?
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(25)Nuh Uh.(4)Democrats, Humor in Michigan, Republicans
Touché
by Corinthian Scales • • 0 Comments
Well, at least one of them won’t f**k you if you do not to give them money.
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(11)Nuh Uh.(0)Cronyism, Democrats, Detroit, Elections, Opinion, Philosophy
How ’bout That Regional Transit Authority?
by Corinthian Scales • • 1 Comment
Remember December 20, 2012?
Besides it being another disgusting theft, and redistribution of our tax dollars by Rick (wear a tie and I’ll use Governor Snyder), and his crony ‘Team R’ looters in Lansing…
That’s right, only a stone throw away in Cleveland.
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(15)Nuh Uh.(1)Cronyism, Detroit, Elections, Michigan, Opinion
How to Screw Taxpayers by Ron Weiser
by Corinthian Scales • • 9 Comments
Mr. Gantert, at MCC exposes more Detroit Institute of Arts deceit and treachery.
Soon after voters approved a three-county $230 million millage for the Detroit Institute of Arts, its top two officers received increases of $58,415 and $98,564 in compensation.
Graham Beal, director of the DIA, saw his total compensation increase from $455,453 in 2012 to $513,868 in 2013, a 12.8 percent increase. In two years, Beal’s total compensation has increased 20 percent from $426,699 in 2011 to the $513,868.
Like I wrote before, Because Graham Beal Wouldn’t Take a Cut In Pay. Bigger picture involving our corrupt Governerd and state legislature?
“I believe there is a possibility (albeit a small one) that there could be some state funding made available towards part of the DIA solution,” Weiser told Buckfire in an e-mail Oct. 17 after speaking with Muchmore. He added that he had been helping DIA leadership find sources of money “for a long-term payment plan” since 2007.
Weiser, who is running for a seat on the University of Michigan Board of Regents [snip]
So, “Ronald Weiser, retired ambassador to Slovakia” somehow becomes oblivious to all the corruption because he serves on the DIA Board of Directors? Bullshit!
Exit question: feeling stupid yet, Mr. Anderson?
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(32)Nuh Uh.(1)Elections, Michigan, Opinion, Philosophy
Uh-oh… Nolan has the Fantods
by Corinthian Scales • • 4 Comments
Finley’s brand of centrist Hopium is wearing off as it appears that pragmatism now sucks.
Snyder’s response is a somnambulist commercial in which he comes across as dull as a valiumed-up dental patient with a message eerily reminiscent of Granholm’s infamous “in five years, you’ll be blown away” pledge.
Michigan hardly ever unseats an incumbent governor, particularly when the economy is on the upswing. If there were a 2010-style Republican wave cresting, Snyder would be up 10 points in this race.
Except now Snyder has his apolitical record of screwing over everyone to accomplish his amoral big government agenda, which ain’t a helluva lot different from the DNC/MDP apparatchik.
Tough lessons for those who followed a corporate snake who built the bulk of his personal wealth by means of taxpayer subsidy at the MEDC, however, if one plays in the middle of the road, sooner or later they’re gonna get crushed. Nobody likes those that pretend they’re everything while standing for nothing.
I’m staying my course with a vote for Ruth Johnson. To hell with the rest of ’em.
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(21)Nuh Uh.(4)Elections, Michigan, Opinion, Philosophy
Peyronie’s Baird sat on a wall
by Corinthian Scales • • 0 Comments
Peyronie’s Baird had a great fall
Since Baird’s tax issue came to light, he has worked to clear up residency issues. He still claims a tax exemption on his home in suburban Chicago, where he spends his weekends with wife and family, Snyder’s office has said.
Baird’s Illinois driver’s license expired Aug. 24, according to the Illinois Secretary of State’s office, but he continues to drive a Mercedes SUV with Illinois plates.
As of Monday, Baird remained on the voter rolls in Illinois, said Courtney Greve, spokeswoman for the Cook County Clerk’s Office.
Records show Baird last voted by mail in the November 2012 elections, Greve said.
Snyder, who is in a tough re-election battle against Democrat Mark Schauer, has expressed support for Baird and acknowledged he “made a couple of errors.”
All the Nerdking’s horses and all the Nerdking’s men
Couldn’t put Peyronie’s Baird together again.
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(18)Nuh Uh.(3)Elections, Michigan, Opinion, Philosophy
When is a Failure not Deemed a Failure?: Part Deux
by Corinthian Scales • • 1 Comment
When Republicans raised the State Income Tax.
10 ways the Income Tax harms civil liberties http://t.co/BnjFf9kNYz
— Greg McNeilly (@gregmcneilly) September 7, 2014
“We could have balanced the budget without taxing pensions,” [John] Nixon said.
Yes, raised the State Income Tax on E-V-E-R-Y-B-O-D-Y.
Special thanks goes to Dick and Betsy’s cupcake for once again illustrating the Recucklican treachery within the MI-GOP.
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