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Compromise Born Of Ineptitude

Published: October 3, 2007

Betsy DeVos released a statement in April 2004 as the Michigan Republican Party state chair that cited high union wages in Michigan among the probable causes of the state’s economic woes. Five seconds of her statement aired over and over again in statewide media reports to an outcry from political leaders far and wide. And although many folks had been whispering the same sentiment under their collective breaths for quite some time, they bit their tongues and did not provide significant public support to back the calculated beliefs expressed by DeVos.

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