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41 Days to Victory!!!

Broken Promises Calendar: No Results from Governor Granholm

PROMISE: “…recruit teachers from schools and have them sign an agreement that they’ll go to work in a hard to recruit area and then we’ll help pay their student loans back.” (Bay City luncheon, 10/29/01)

RESULT: Nothing. No Result.

Last night we held our first MRP update conference call. Starting October 9th, we will be holding a confidential conference call with State Committee members and County Chairs weekly. This call will be held every Monday evening starting at 6:30pm. If you would like to be added to the call list, please email Rob Macomber at rob@migop.org to get on the list of authorized callers. Unauthorized participation is a violation of federal law.

The Granholm vs DeVos debate schedule has been set:

The debates will be:
-Monday, October 2, at WKAR public TV station at Michigan State University
-Tuesday, October 10, at NBC affiliate WOOD-TV in Grand Rapids
-Monday, October 16, at ABC affiliate WXYZ-TV studios in Southfield

We will be having a debate watching party during each debate. Two at the D4G headquarters and one in the Kent County Republican headquarters.

Stabenow too “chicken” to debate Mike Bouchard???

We’re excited that Governor Mitt Romney will be joining us for our “Count Down to Victory” fall dinner on Tuesday, October 17, 2006 at DeVos Place in Grand Rapids. It’s our last big push to get the needed money for our candidates before the election. Please contact the Finance Team at (517) 487-5413 to contribute to this event.

Indiana wants me, Lord I can’t go back there…but my kids might have to???

I held a live, remote teleconference at the Plymouth Foundry in Plymouth, IN Tuesday, highlighting the economic divide between Indiana and Michigan, despite the two states’ similarities.

I went to Indiana yesterday because, despite what Governor Granholm would have you believe, states like Indiana, percentage wise, have a larger manufacturing-base than does Michigan. And still Indiana has a far lower unemployment rate than Michigan, and is actually creating jobs. So what does that mean? It means that Granholm and company are getting outworked and the people of Michigan are paying the price.

In June, Honda Motor Company announced that it would build its new, $400 million manufacturing plant in Greensburg, IN, bringing with it the creation of 2,000 jobs. While Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels pursued the new plant for nearly a year, Governor Granholm and thusly Michigan, joined the fray in, what an industry analyst called, an “11th hour pitch.” And despite being in Japan for a photo-op, Granholm was ‘totally booked’ to personally meet with Honda executives. As Delphi Automotive struggled with bankruptcy and a union worker strike, the Granholm Administration claimed to be in a, “holding pattern” and was characterized as taking a “wait and see approach” to solving the problem. Meanwhile, Gov. Daniels actively worked with Delphi to solve the problem, leading the Indianapolis Star to say, “looks like Granholm’s taking care of politics while Daniels takes care of business.”

Sysco food distributor wanted to build an $80 million dollar plant that would employ 500 people and because they couldn’t get the “improvements” necessary approved by this Administration, they chose Indiana. This story was covered in the Kalamazoo Gazette and Indiana State Representative Heim share his experience in getting the plant to come to his district. Leadership, commitment and a job provider friendly state government.

Stabenow immigration record pointed out on RedState:

http://www.redstate.com/stories/elections/2006/stabenow_helps_illegal_im...

The “Lyle Van Houten Victory Center” held it’s official opening. At the dedication ceremony, Gaile Dedinas, Bill Runco and Judy Byrwa presented a framed copy of "Just One Vote" to Mary...which had been given to her by Lyle...about 35 people attended..

Mary & Margy were took part in the ceremony which included much of the "Lyle Van Houten extended family unit". It was a great event.

Tomorrow will be the first "Lyle Van Houten Wednesday night Phone bank"...Mary & Margy plan to be there and every Wednesday evening friends of Lyle will be gathering to help lead Republicans to victory this November.

Join your friends and neighbors as we make the calls and send out the door-to-door efforts needed to identify our voters…and then get them to the polls!

Republican Women of Kalamazoo County invite you to a special luncheon Saturday, October 14th, 2006 Holiday Inn West, Kalamazoo , MI at 12:30 p.m. Their Special Guest Speaker will be Governor Mitt Romney. Cost is $25 per person and RSVP by October 5th to colemanjeanie@yahoo.com . Reserve early as seating is limited.

A couple of questions for Governor Granholm:

What ever happened to the millions of dollars in your Partnership for Progress fund?

Do you have any other slush funds you are hiding from Michigan voters?

Is it Governor or U.S. Senator?

Did you know Indiana, Ohio and Wisconsin, our bordering states, have as high or higher percentage manufacturing than does Michigan…and they all created jobs?

Why doesn’t Toyota want you to use their name in any advertising?

President Clintons spin on his dismal record to fight terror and get Osama Bin Laden was further featured in National Journal’s Hotline which wrote:

Ex-advisers "ridiculed" Clinton on 9/25 for telling FNC's Chris Wallace that he had a plan to invade Afghanistan, topple the Taliban, and kill Osama bin Laden after jihadists attacked the U.S.S. Cole.

Michael Scheuer, who "led the CIA's hunt" for bin Laden during the Clinton admin.: "The only order we got from [Clinton] after the Cole was to put together a target list for air attacks. ... What I was involved in could in no way be called a full-fledged plan to attack and overthrow the Taliban."

Scheuer also "lashed out" at Clinton for "blaming subordinates for the failure" to capture bin Laden, claiming that they had ten chances to kill or capture him before 9/11/01. Scheuer: "I was responsible for sending men and women into harm's way to get information he didn't use."

Ex-Clinton NSC spokesperson P.J. Crowley: "It wasn't that there was a lack of plans, it's that there was a lack of actionable evidence." Scheuer and an ex-FBI official agreed that "they knew almost immediately" that al-Qaeda was behind the U.S.S. Cole bombing. The ex-FBI official: "We all said this was definitely bin Laden. But we couldn't take it to court and get an indictment."

Homeland Security Adviser Fran Townsend, who served as a DoJ intelligence officer under Clinton, "rolled her eyes" when asked about Clinton's "invasion plan." Townsend, on Clinton's comments during the FNC interview: "There were lots of things that seemed new."

Clinton spokesperson Jay Carson "stood by" Clinton's story. Carson: "A plan existed, but the ability to act on it was not corroborated by intelligence until after President Clinton left office" (Meek/Bazinet, New York Daily News, 9/26).

Dick Morris writes, Clinton's "self-justifications constitute a mangling of the truth which only someone who once quibbled about what the 'definition of 'is' is' could perform."

According to Clinton, conservatives "were all trying to get me to withdraw from Somalia in 1993 the next day" after the attack that killed American soldiers. But "the real question was whether Clinton would honor the military's request to be allowed to stay and avenge the attack, a request he denied."

Clinton told Wallace: "I authorized the CIA to get groups together to try to kill bin Laden." But "actually," the 9/11 Commission was "clear that the plan to kidnap" bin Laden was derailed by ex-NSA Sandy Berger and ex-CIA Dir. George Tenet "because Clinton had not yet made a finding authorizing his assassination."

Clinton, on bin Laden: "I worked hard to try to kill him." If so, "why did he notify Pakistan of our cruise missile strike in time for them to warn Osama and allow him to escape? Why did he refuse to allow us to fire cruise missiles to kill bin Laden when we had the best chance, by far," in '99?

Clinton "is fully justified in laying eight months of the blame for the failure to kill or catch bin Laden" at Bush's doorstep. "But he should candidly acknowledge that eight years of blame fall on him" (The Hill, 9/26).

Stickers…now my son has had two people ask him where he can get DeVos/Bouchad stickers for his car when he stopped to fill up with gas. He now has a few extras with him to hand out when needed….people in Michigan are looking for a change…be part of it. Do you have a sticker on your back window or bumper?

For complete post go to:

http://migop.blogs.com/blog/2006/09/articles_of_int_24.html

Saulius "Saul" Anuzis
Chairman
Michigan Republican Party