Absolute Michigan's Michigan Blog: Granholm steals jobs money for campaign?

Politics [Michigan] writes:

This story is still developing, it's gotten some ink, which we'll recap here:

- Granholm gave her campaign ad agency a $19 million tourism ad, where most of the ads will run in Michigan. (This is a playbook page from Rick Cole, who was the campaign manager for Blanchard's failed re-elect in 1990, he has left the Detroit Medical Center where he worked for Granholm's crony Mike Duggan. He now is doing "contract" work for the MEDC which is dishing out the cash for these ads.)

Read the Free Press article and/or visit the DP & Company web site.

The article says Duffey Petrosky & Co. would run a marketing campaign that will begin in March and continue through October 2007 at a cost of more than $1 million a month, which -- excluding the Michigan Lottery -- is one of the largest-ever state advertising contracts ... Money for the contract comes from the 21st Century Jobs plan approved in December by Granholm and the Legislature. The ad campaign is intended to lure business and investors to Michigan by, among other things, offering grants for high-tech enterprise.

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