Showing posts with label governer granholm. Show all posts
Showing posts with label governer granholm. Show all posts

Monday, January 24, 2011

Granholm to teach at UC Berkeley, write book

If you Know her at all then you will understand why I say "How Fitting"
We are glad to see her go.

Look out California Here she Comes.


Freep.com
Former Gov. Jennifer Granholm and her husband, Dan Mulhern, will teach at the University of California-Berkeley, and together they’ll write a book about her experience leading Michigan during one of its worst economic episodes, according to Politico.com today.

The two will continue to live in Michigan, however, and are searching for a permanent home in the state, where she was governor for eight years and attorney general for four.

Since leaving the governor’s residence in Lansing they have rented in the Lansing area, where their son, Jack, attends middle school.

Democrat Granholm, 51, also will be a paid contributor to NBC’s “Meet the Press.” She and Mulhern have joined the Keppler’s Speakers Bureau for speaking engagements, she told Politico.com in an interview

Maybe Jenny and Nancy will Hang out?


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Sunday, March 21, 2010

A no-meat day? Michigan farmers have a cow

In good old fashioned Michigan style , Some Carnivores took offense to Governor Granholms Proclamation of a " No Meat Day " and showed her how they feel by Holding a Massive BBQ on the lawn of the Capitol .

So much of a protest was made that Granholm resended her statement and changed it to an Agricultural day !



Freep.com
Michigan hunters and meat producers had a collective cow today at the news Gov. Jennifer Granholm had issued an official proclamation declaring Saturday "Michigan Meatout Day."

The proclamation was labeled “unconscionable and insensitive to livestock and dairy farmers by the Michigan Farm Bureau.

“It’s inconceivable to us that the governor could stoop to this level of telling people what they should and shouldn’t eat based on the philosophies of 'food elitists,' ” said Farm Bureau President Wayne Wood.

• UPDATE: "Senate to Granholm: Take back proclamation for no-meat day"

Michigan United Conservation Clubs posted an image of the proclamation on its Facebook page, quickly eliciting a call from members to observe Meatout Day by having a massive barbecue on the Capitol lawn.

Granholm’s proclamation, issued at the urging of vegetarian activists, cited the benefits of a plant-based diet and the increasing availability of alternatives to meat and dairy products for vegans and vegetarians. Following a series of “whereases,” Granholm encourages “the residents of this state to choose not to eat meat” on Saturday.

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