Ethics

I Almost Went Postal Last Night

By Ed Brayton

Last night I was in Grand Rapids to cover a townhall meeting put on by Michigan's Lt. Gov. John Cherry. You see, Cherry is the presumptive Democratic nominee for the 2010 gubernatorial election but he has a problem: No one here knows who he is. He's been completely in Gov. Granholm's shadow for the last 7 years and only political junkies remember his career in the state legislature.

I'd be willing to bet that if you took a poll of Michigan voters and asked if they could name the lieutenant governor, the result would be less than 1/3. Maybe less than 1/4. To remedy this, Granholm put him in charge of a task force to streamline the state government and now he's doing these townhall meetings around the state to "get public input" - i.e. make it look like he's actually doing something.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on June 25, 2009 (boomark / email).