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Rick Snyder

Savaged: Snyder Treasury Appointee Who Implements EM Takeovers Abused City Credit Card, Ignored Auditor Warnings & Plunged Town Into Deep Debt

The Ann Arbor Independent Editorial Team Jul 29, 2011 14

By Chris Savage The Peter Principle: In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. In February of this year, Roger Fraser resigned after nine years as Ann Arbor City Administrator to assume the role of Deputy…

Dem on Ann Arbor City Council Who Supported Snyder in 2010 Rakes In Donations From Dem Pols Who Look The Other Way

The Ann Arbor Independent Editorial Team Jul 23, 2011 1

A2P Notes: All of the information about the donors and amounts comes from the Washtenaw County campaign finance web site. To search the database, and examine the candidate campaign finance disclosures yourself, visit this…

The Culture Vulture: Michigan Art Gallery Exhibit Pairs Republican Governors (Including Snyder) With Nazi Iconography

The Ann Arbor Independent Editorial Team Jul 18, 2011 3

Marquette, Michigan averages 141 inches of snow each year, and is the home of Northern Michigan University. The city is not exactly renowned as a hot bed of either political posturing or cutting edge artistic envelope-pushing. All that…

Interview: Daily Kos Wants Governor Rick Snyder Recalled. The Effort Is Poised To Change The Face of U.S. Politics.

The Ann Arbor Independent Editorial Team Jul 15, 2011 13

by Chris Savage Although many people have never heard of Daily Kos or think of it as simply "that liberal blog," it has become the model for online community political blogging. Founded in 2002 by Markos "Kos" Moulitsas, according to the…

State Senator Rebekah Warren Becomes First and Only Democratic Michigan Legislator Targeted For Recall in 2011

The Ann Arbor Independent Editorial Team Jul 8, 2011 7

Lawrence Kestenbaum has just 280 followers on Twitter. Not a grand following for the County Clerk of Washtenaw County. Kestenbaum, a Democrat, yesterday made the unusual choice to tweet about a new recall effort launched in the state of…

In May Gov. Snyder Touts New Flat Tax As Best Lure For Business. In June Offers Sears $50M In Tax Incentives To Relocate HQ

The Ann Arbor Independent Editorial Team Jul 5, 2011 2

Small businesses owned by individuals, couples and families do one thing really well: take out as much money as possible from the business, and minimize the tax burden as much as possible. This can be confirmed by just about any small…

Rev. Jesse Jackson Slams Michigan Gov. Snyder For “Trampling Democracy”…in Chicago (Not Detroit) Newspaper Op-Ed

The Ann Arbor Independent Editorial Team Jun 29, 2011 4

You have to wonder: Did the Reverend Jesse Jackson submit his op-ed piece to either The Detroit News or the Freep before he shot it off to the editors of the Chicago Sun-Times? Did the editors of those two Michigan papers take one look at…

How the Mighty Have Fallen: Snyder’s Approval Ratings Have Fallen the Furthest of All GOP Govs

The Ann Arbor Independent Editorial Team Jun 25, 2011 0

A2Politico has been tracking the approval ratings of Michigan's Republican Governor Rick Snyder. In November 2010, Rick Snyder breezed past Democratic candidate Virg Bernero, and won the race for governor with 58 percent of the vote. After…

Savaged: Ann Arbor Resident, Catholic Nun, & 26 Others Slap Gov. Snyder With Suit Alleging Emergency Manager Law Unconstitutional

The Ann Arbor Independent Editorial Team Jun 22, 2011 14

by Chris Savage As I have written about before, the Emergency Manager (EM) law in Michigan, now known as Public Act 4 of 2011 (or, more formally the "Local Government and School District Fiscal Accountability Act"), gave sweeping new…

Gov. Snyder: Your Child Can Be Educated For $6K Per Year, But $20K Per Year Not Enough To Educate My Kid

The Ann Arbor Independent Editorial Team Jun 17, 2011 9

The mainsteam media have finally picked up on the fact that Rick and Sue Snyder's child attends a private school in Ann Arbor, Michigan called Greenhills School. The timing of the light bulb moment was almost too perfect. Shortly after…

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