DeVos Picks Running Mate
Republican gubernatorial candidate Dick DeVos named Oakland County Clerk Ruth Johnson as his running mate this morning. Johnson, 51, is a former GOP state lawmaker from Holly who served in the House of Representatives from 1999 through 2004.
Most of the commentators have focused on the fact that this choice should help DeVos, of Ada in western Michigan, balance out the ticket with a woman from the highly populated southeastern portion of the state. However, I believe the most important fact in the selection of Johnson is that she doesn't have any political baggage that could hurt the DeVos campaign.
This, of course, stands in start constrast to some of the other prominent Republican women from southeastern Michigan whose names were floated around.
Yes, State Senator Nancy Cassis (R-15, Novi), I am talking about you.
You single-handedly blocked a blocked a legislative package that was put together by your Republican counterparts in the Michigan House to bring more major television and motion picture productions to Michigan - and did so not once, but twice.
In doing so, you cost the Great Lakes State more than $1 billion in investments and new jobs.
For what it's worth, Senator Cassis, we hope that your Democratic challenger this November, Ray Rackowski of Novi, makes you eat everyone of those lost jobs.
But I digress.
Congrats to Johnson on becoming Dick DeVos' running mate.
