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Eskaton posted:Uh, the auto industry and economy in Michigan at least has been growing since Snyder, so I'm not too sure if that's a great argument to pick. There was a global recession in 2008, one of the effects of which was bottoming out the auto industry which hit a disastrous nadir in 2008-2009. Auto manufacturers all over the world were seriously affected by it but the Big 3 were in a particularly bad position, so they received bailouts and restructuring (or, at least Chrysler and GM did) and substantially changed their business strategies. Since late 2010-2011 the US economy in general began a slow recovery, and the improving outlook in combination with the bailouts and restructuring, the position of the automotive industry in Michigan has improved significant from its historic low-point in 2008-2009. Snyder took office in 2011. What you're doing here is crediting Snyder with something that had nothing to do with him, because those positive changes were facilitated by (A) events that took place mainly while Granholm was governor and mostly involved the federal government anyway, plus (B) a nationwide recovery. e: edited for grammar and clarity Schenck v. U.S. fucked around with this message at 03:51 on Jan 29, 2016 |
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axeil posted:I thought he had resigned by the time he got arrested. Nope, he went out jogging one day and they arrested him there on the street, still a sitting governor. In fact, he adamantly refused to resign and went back to work as soon as he made bail, forcing the state legislature to impeach him. It had never happened before, which actually put the state legislature in a bit of a bind because they had to work out how to do it, and in the meantime figure out a way to stop him from doing anything while they processed that. Finally he was impeached, removed from office, and barred from holding public office in Illinois ever again. At a certain point the purpose of resigning is to prevent the public official's stink from adhering to their office, their political party, or to the government generally. Sometimes that's important enough that the guy will get something in return for resigning. Nixon got a full pardon! Blagojevich was the dumbest kind of corrupt and possibly delusional, so he just kept hanging on either in disbelief that he would be impeached or in the hopes of holding out for a better deal.
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