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And now onto an issue that's very near and dear to my heart - education. Part of what makes Michigan so great is our incredible educational system, whether it be K-12 or college and beyond. The product of public schools, this girl knows that Michigan can be proud of our schools, our teachers, and our legislators who make sure it says so great. That's why Amway Guy is so dangerous to us.
Just Say NO to Dick because...
23. Amway Guy and his wife Betsy(Prince)DeVos have donated over $7 Million in the last 7 years to organizations seeking to promote public vouchers for private and parochial schools that would undermine the state's educational system. Since 1999, the DeVos-Prince family has donated $7,066,000 to 3 PAC's (political action committees) to their signature issue - 'education choice' - publicly funded vouchers for private and parochial schools, tax credits for private and parochial school tuition and charter schools. If you're still not convinced that this isn't a so-called special interest you might change your mind after reading that members of the Walton Family (yes, that'd be the family behind Wal-Mart) were also extremely large contributors in each of the 3 PAC's. Michigan Campaign Finance Network.
Just Say YES to Jen because...
23. Due to the Governor's initiative, K-12 Funding is at an all-time high in Michigan. Due to the Governor's initiative, state funding for K-12 public education is at an all-time high of $6,875 per pupil, and she is proposing an additional increase in her 2007 budget to bring per-pupil funding to $7,075. *In addition, the Governor has called for additional funding that would pay for 8,000 additional pre-school students. (Detroit Free Press 2/8/06)
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Michael, Ms. Granholm knows the difference between private faith and public policy. Her faith is not the issue when it comes to re-election. If you are going to judge her on such a narrow base, I suggest you open up your horizons before casting your vote.
If Devos wasn't tripping over his own words when asked questions in the debates, maybe I would halfway consider what he is saying (or trying to). Lets face it- if the man can't even answer a straight forward question how the heck is he going to find the answer to save Michigan? Vote Granholm!
Up until today the abortion issue has been a subtext, back burner issue. Unfortunately, Ms. Granholm's latest ad has drug it out front. While I think Ms Granholm may be the more effective candidtate, this issue puts her out of reach for my vote.
Every person under a goverments influence deserves equal protection of basic human rights. Personal choice does not justify slavery, discrination in the work place, sexual harasment, or the silencing of a human heart.
I will now have to actively oppose Ms. Granholm. History will look on our time much as we look back at the tyrannies of the past. Sometimes one issue needs to be singled out. The nation needed to end slavery and Jim Crow. We need basic universal health care, a good economy that benefits all, an equatible immigration policy, and low-cost-high-quality higher education. But if the government will deny protection of the most vulnerable of the right to live, why should it be trusted to protect the next group? In the end it will only matter where on the foodchain, or powerchain, you fall that determines if you get what you need.
The opponent to Abraham Lincoln opposed slavery on a personal level, but thought states had the right to decide for themselves.
To the religiously zealous voters...
Christianity teaches to love thy neighbor, to be stewards of the earth, to turn the other cheek and don't get me started on the beatitudes which are conviently absent from the policies of republican candidates and their subordinates. I find a great hypocrisy in the notion that abortion
is the great "jihad" you wish to embark upon. Where are you and your republican counterparts when it comes to the poor, those in jail, kids in foster homes, the single mother with too many mouths to feed? I hear from these mouths that also recieve the holy eucharist; "Get a job", "Or that those in such positions deserve their fate..." Is it then to be assumed that as long as their
are no abortions, it is entirely appropriate to destroy the welfare system, underfund public education,
give tax cuts to businesses that already have nearly the lowest in all 50 states, cut funding for medicare and medicaid, privatize social security allowing the free market to decide whether grandma lives in her home or dies in the street because the republicans saved a few extra dollars to be funnelled into Mark Foley's defense
fund? I assume the answer to be rhetorical. No, anyone that decides
that abortion of all things is the biggest issue when it comes to their voting is either independently wealthy and living on
a deserted island or completely oblivious to the world they wish to
leave to their children. Finally on
that note; a question to anyone opposing abortion and claiming to be pro-life. "How many children have you adopted?" It is my belief that if you're pro-life and encouraging adoption that you should do no less. Otherwise you cease to be christians and become hypocrites.
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