 Tuesday, October 08, 2002 One of his focal points is the "life sciences industry" Jobs will be his top priority if he is elected governor, Lt. Gov. Dick Posthumus said last week in Midland. That means keeping existing jobs and bringing new ones to Michigan, he said. One of his focal points is the "life sciences industry". Posthumus doesn’t want the state to force livestock feeding operations’ closure or prevent their start-up by going too far with environmental legislation and regulation. Regulations, which he called sufficient, protect water by requiring "zero discharge" from such operations, he said. Click here for the full article in the Midland Daily News
Quotes from the Lansing State Journal 10/3/02 Taxes Opposes any tax increases, at least until taking office and having an audit of state's finances. We are relieved to note that if elected, Granholm would only raise taxes once she takes office, and not before. Single Business Tax Would abolish and replace with a fairer tax. Hmmm...ever wonder why Granholm hasn't told us what this "fairer" tax is going to look like? Income Tax Wants to maintain cut but won't promise not to slow it. We won't hold our breath here either... AG Candidate Mike Cox Announces Child Support Collection Proposals including Deadbeat Parent On-Line Registration, Child Support Collection Tipline, and Attorney General’s Top 10 List "It is time the Attorney General stood up for the 644,000 children who do not receive regular child support. Who better to pursue those who steal from vulnerable children than the top law enforcement officer in Michigan?" Cox stated. "It is not a time to pass the buck or pass the blame. There are children who need the Attorney General's help. The Attorney General has the ability to be a leader collecting child support for Michigan's children and I plan to take that lead." "We need an Attorney General, like Mike Cox, who will make child support collection a priority. There are over 600,000 children who don't receive child support and Mike's opponent thinks there's nothing he can do about it," noted Congressman Joe Knollenberg. "That's the difference right there between Mike Cox and his opponent. Mike is offering solutions."
President Clinton's Economic Team knew the economy was in trouble in the fall of 2000 What did Congressional Democrats know and when did they know it? By Dana Milbank ...The smoking gun, Republicans say, is a statement made by Kathryn L. Shaw, a former member of Clinton's Council of Economic Advisers, at a panel discussion in Aspen, Colo., on the "digital business cycle."... "Economic growth had started to fade in the fall of 2000 and in my morning briefings in the White House, I developed a reputation for this phrase we've heard today, the gloom-and-doom economist, because the manufacturing sector was fading and so as I gave my morning briefings to [Chief of Staff John M.] Podesta and others they were beginning to turn to me with that bored look that one gets when talking with an economist and, in addition now, that depressed look, and I developed this line that we better get out while the going is good, because in fact in the fall, during the election, the numbers were still good but they were fading, so it was time to get the election past because things weren't looking rosy." Shaw was not alone... Republicans also point to a second statement in the current issue of Atlantic Monthly by Joseph E. Stiglitz, who had left the chairmanship of Clinton's CEA before the period in question. "It would be nice for us veterans of the Clinton Administration if we could simply blame mismanagement by President George W. Bush's economic team for this seemingly sudden turnaround in the economy, which coincided so closely with its taking charge. But...the economy was slipping into recession even before Bush took office, and the corporate scandals that are rocking American began much earlier." ... For the entire article, click here
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Republican Attorney General Candidate Mike Cox announced a comprehensive plan for the Attorney General to take a lead role in child support collection in Michigan at Shiawassee Park in Farmington today. Cox, joined by Congressman Knollenberg, announced several proposals that include the creation of a Child Support Division in the Attorney General's office, an on-line deadbeat parent registration list, a child support collection tipline, and the Attorney General's Top 10 Deadbeat Parents list, to improve collection.
Currently, Michigan has the third worst rate for child support collection in the US. The State has failed to collect over $6 billion in child support for Michigan children. Over 644,000 Michigan children do not receive the child support they deserve, and over 400,000 Michigan children do not receive one cent of child support they are entitled to receive.
"What caused the current growth slump? Well, I hate to tell you this, but as of the fall -- early fall of last year -- we in the White House, and the Federal Reserve really, very much saw it coming. So what do I mean by that? 