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What Granholm learned as governor of Michigan

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Jennifer Granholm, host of "The War Room," talks about what she learned about job creation as governor of Michigan. What she learned was that Republican ideals of cutting taxes just don't work, and shares a wrenching story about a one-company town that lost a massive manufacturing plant because the company shipped the jobs off to Mexico. "The War Room," which will focus on politics and the run-up to the 2012 president election, premieres in January on Current TV, and will air weeknights at 9/8c.
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  • BJRCollins
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      BJRCollins  

    • As a homegrown Michigander and victim of Granholm's "success," I hope those she is now charming in California - yes, I know her, she is a very charming woman - don't fall prey the seductress. The man in charge now is having to take apart patchwork quilt of one-time fixes she strangled the state of Michigan with. We're doing much better now, if anyone is interested.

    • 5 months ago
  • TLars
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      TLars  
    • BJRCollins:

      Michigan is my home too. I respect Jennifer Granholm a great deal. She served as governor during the worse eight years in Michigan since the Great Depression. You think that was easy? If Granholm was so terrible, why was she reelected? The man in charge right now is a velvet version of Scott Walker -- only worse. If Michigan is doing any better it's because Granholm created a foundation for recovery. Rick Snyder has lived a life of luxury detached from the circumstances of most Michiganders. His policies, along with the Republican dominated legislature, are just as detached. It won't be easy to do, but I look forward to his recall as well as flipping the legislature in 2012.

    • 5 months ago
  • JanforGore
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      JanforGore  

    • Why didn't you mention that the "green technology" was DOW ( Agent Orange/ Dioxin/ GMO) Chemical getting money to have a big building in Midland Michigan to make lithium batteries? Was that tax free too? You make it sound like you gave thousands of jobs to people by allowing real green entrepreneurs to build a solar panel factory, or callng for wind energy on the Great Lakes, or instituting a sustainable agriculture program for Detriot. Which is actually what should have happened. But of course, you are owned by DOW Chemical and I will take a guess that you even got that spot on their board because of it. My hubris alarm is also going off with this video. Please spare us the campaign ploy in your effort to sell books. This despicable company that has toxified the world and will not take responsibility for it nor compensate victims is now able to "greenwash" themselves and cover their crimes in part because of you. How progressive.

    • 5 months ago
  • TLars
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      TLars  
    • JanforGore:

      Granholm encouraged lithium battery research and production as the first step in getting Michigan in on the ground floor of the coming electric car revolution. Guilt by association with one company that now produces lithium batteries in Michigan is a red herring.

    • 5 months ago
  • JanforGore
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      JanforGore  
    • TLars:

      Another "friend" I suppose doing damage control. Another "new member" with no other comments but on this thread. And you are obviously ignorant or just simply as uncaring as she is regarding just what DOW has done to toxify this planet. Don't even try that tactic on me.

    • 5 months ago
  • TLars
  • JanforGore
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      JanforGore  
    • TLars:

      One word? That's all you have? Can't handle the truth so you namecall? Speaks volumes. And I will ask the same question every chance I get until I get an answer. And neither you nor any other person planted here will change that. As long as she remains silent on her support of DOW Chemical, she will just have to deal with it here.

      BTW, synonyms for demagogue: agitator (also demagog), exciter, firebrand, fomenter, incendiary, inciter, instigator, kindler, provocateur, rabble-rouser
      Wow, sounds like the Founding Fathers to me...But I digress. Career politicians who care only for themselves need to be held to account. If there is nothing to any of what I ask she should being the "progressive" she claims to be then have no problem going on her show and decrying Dow Chemical for crimes against nature and entreat them to clean up the waterways of Michigan, clean up Bhopal and take responsibility for the continuing horrors wrecked upon those who were and still are victims of Agent Orange and that doesn't begin to address their proliferation of GMOS and their relationship with MONSANTO, another killer of life. Matter of fact, millions around the world are demanding the same justice as I am and NONE of this is false. So once again, you prove nothing but that you were here to simply intimidate the one person here not afraid to ask a REAL question. And you failed.

    • 5 months ago
  • TLars
  • JanforGore
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    • TLars:

      Great representation of her "supporters."

      "Firebagger"

      "A term of derision used (usually on blogs) by supporters of U.S. President Barack Obama in arguments with people who criticize Obama and other Democrats from the political left."

      Wow, asking someone who was on the board of Agent Orange DOW Chemical and claims to care about the environment (at least as long as their investments pay off) why they would be on the board of a company like DOW whose toxic legacy has killed and maimed innocent people for generations and continues to poison this world is not political. Just shows what a partisan hack you are...without a conscience apparently.

    • 5 months ago
  • TLars
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      TLars  
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    • JanforGore:

      Calling out potential allies (like me) who honestly care about clean energy is a poor strategy for winning friends for your lofty environmental goals. Hating on Dow and anyone associated with them may make you feel satisfied -- but you might as well be fighting on a tank with a piece of dry spaghetti. They aren't going away and all your blustering idealism will do nothing to reign them in. The only way to address the environmental crisis, confront polluters, and get concrete results to reduce the rate of global warming is to engage the political system. Your beau Al would agree. Heck, I voted for him. There are a whole lot of politicians with views and a record on the environment MUCH, MUCH worse than Governor Granholm. She's trying to take a practical approach by emphasizing green jobs and maybe this new Current program (which appears with the stamp of approval from your beau Al) has the potential for raising awareness with regard to clean water issues. Condemning her for her ties to Dow -- and condemning me for supporting her throughout her very difficult tenure as Michigan governor -- does little for the cause.

      http://rustwire.com/2010/08/05/granholm-to-dc-use-jobs-not-the-environment-to-pu...

    • 5 months ago
  • JanforGore
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    • TLars:

      http://current.com/community/93610536_lord-coe-and-mayor-boris-johnson-must-be-c...

      Would she take this challenge then? Your deliberate ignoring of this ongoing tragedy by a company she still does PR for because she makes them money by supporting their BS greenwashing while they continue to toxify this planet is disgusting. Nothing you can say in your political sell is going to change the reality of this. If she has a conscience and is truly for "sustainability" then she should have no problem as a former board member who only left because the money was good on Current and it gives her a platform to spread her own political propaganda to decry the crimes of DOW publicly on her show. If not, then I suppose she is just another milquetoast fake Democrat who says one thing and acts like a Republican. And I should be so lucky as to have Al as my beau. Perhaps regarding this he needs a little guidance because if he did approve this knowing her relationship with this company it is a mistake, though knowing his feelings for the environment I can presume her leaving the board may well have been a stipulation of her employment and not her decision. Unless of course, you have an "in" the rest of us don't. And this isn't going away especially as the Olympics gear up because all of us "idealists" out here who happen to place human life and clean water before BS partisan politics and selling books aren't going away either. These criminals must be held to account for the lives they have taken and ruined because it is the moral thing to do. That is how it is looked at when you aren't a politician. That IS standing up for the cause.

      And to add to this there are two main reasons why I am pursuing this: One a most important one:

      I know what it is like to watch someone you love dearly suffer and die from cancer and be helpless to do anything about it. And I have dealt with that pain more than once in my life and I don't want to see it happen to anyone else. What these companies do (which you actually admitted) is despicable and "engaging the political system" as it is now is a cop out statement especially since politics is dysfunctional in this country because THEY OWN IT, as Al and many others have stated.

      Secondly, I support this station and have for a few years now and I will continue to make my honest opinions known when I believe something has been done that is to the detriment of it.

    • 5 months ago
  • TLars
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      TLars  
    • JanforGore:

      You seem very politically motivated and an advocate for what is good and right and just with regard to the environment. That's good. The world needs environmental prophets. Even so, unless you can find within yourself the restraint not to paint everyone you engage with one evil brush -- including those associated with DOW or associated with Granholm-- you are going to have very few substantial conversations with anyone in a position to help your cause. The world is more complicated than black and white. If you want to make a difference, it will mean opening your mind to the perspectives of others -- if for no other reason than to figure out how to fight them. Otherwise you're likely going to become just one more ineffective, burned-out, social cynic.

      By the way, I think Granholm left DOW because Al convinced her to. It may have even been a requirement in order to get the Current gig. Even so, Al didn't give up on her. I won't either.

    • 5 months ago
  • jambay
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      jambay  

    • Sounds like a commercial for office. You really should change image link to this so it won't be compared to Ms. Michele Bachmann.

    • 5 months ago
  • TLars
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      TLars  
    • jambay:

      Granholm served as the governor of Michigan for 8 years and retired after wrestling with the longest on-going recession in the US. She can't run for president because she was born in Canada. I look forward to hearing what she has to say.

    • 5 months ago
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