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200 Days until Election Day

MORNING UPDATE:

State Committee kicked off it’s meeting yesterday. We held our county chairs meeting, which was followed by our favorite Friday night “Pizza and Politics” event…a great venue for folks to mix and mingle. As always, a great start to our meeting.

The formal State Committee meets this morning…more on that tomorrow.

Governor Granholm starts her junket to the Middle East…not on her dime! Maybe she should just go down to Indiana and figure out why Michigan companies have moved “south” over the “border”. No, we are NOT talking about Mexico. What an embarrassment.

So, what’s the deal behind the Indiana billboard…check out the numbers below.

The Top Ten Reasons that Mitt Romney dropped out of the Presidential Race. A must see.

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Posted by Nolan Finley on Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 5:21 PM

Indiana's got the numbers on Michigan

I heard Gov. Jennifer Granholm on WJR's Paul W. Smith show this morning poking fun at Indiana's billboard campaign to recruit Michigan's jobs and residents.

Compare the economic performance posted by Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels, a Republican, to what Granholm's done, and you wonder where the punch line is.

Like Michigan, Indiana is a manufacturing state, heavily dependent on the automotive industry.

Yet Indiana's unemployment rate is 4.6 percent, below the national average, while Michigan's is 7.2 percent, the highest in the nation.

Manufacturing employment dropped 5.9 percent in Michigan over the past year; the decline in Indiana was 1.8 percent.

Both states suffered a drop in new housing starts, but in Indiana, the decrease was 8.6 percent, compared to 31.7 percent in Michigan. Over the last decade, Indiana has had an 8.1 percent gain in population, compared to 2.9 percent in Michigan. Last year, Indiana continued to gain residents -- .7 percent -- while Michigan dropped by .3 percent.

The poverty rate is lower in Indiana; the return on federal tax dollars is higher.
And the tax burden in Indiana is nearly $500 less per resident.

Indiana has good reason to see Michigan as a fertile recruiting ground.

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Saulius "Saul" Anuzis
Chairman
Michigan Republican Party