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Jennifer Granholm at the DNC
ecthompsonmd September 9, 2012

Who would have thought that Jennifer Granholm, former governor of Michigan, could give a short six-minute speech which had the Democratic Convention on their feet cheering, clapping and euphoric? This is how you give a simple speech that everyone will remember. Transcript of Jennifer Granholm’s speech at the DNC: Good evening, I’m Jennifer Granholm, from the great state of Michigan, where the trees are just the right height! Let me tell you a story about the dark days in my home state. Towards the end of my time as governor, Ford closed one of its biggest factories, a factory in Wixom,

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MI Challenge
ecthompsonmd May 31, 2008

From EmptyWheel who is live blogging from the meeting: As I said in this post, I was skeptical that Mark Brewer–the MDP Chair–would be able to make a strong case for the 69-59 split. I was wrong. The key to Mark Brewer’s success was in stating clearly that there was no way to measure the “fair reflection” of the intent of the voters who participated in the presidential selection process because, as he pointed out, there was no primary, convention, or caucus, that actually measured it. And that’s the fundamental truth that made the Clusterf&ck the Clusterf&ck it was. By starting

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