Hey Governor! Butt out!

She's at it again! Jennifer Granholm has found another small business to over tax and force out of the state. The tobacco shop owner.

The woman who just two months ago said there would be no new taxes or fees in her budget has decided to tax loose tobacco and cigars. Remember, don't believe what she says, she's an actress, it's just another scene for her. Her latest role is as a saviour to of the low-income children. She wants to put the cost of free health care of the poor on the back of the people who are struggling to pay their own health care costs and to keep their paychecks coming in. These aren't wealthy business owners who own the small tobacco shops. This is a direct tax on the shrinking middle class. I don't know of any Walmart size tobacco shop chain. (However, when this tax hits the small independent tobacco shops, I am sure Walmart will start carrying Chinese tobacco.)

Jennifer Granholm likes to play the role of champion of your health. Her massive cigarette taxes are to get you to pay for our states schools or quit smoking. However. She also wants to extend the hours for liquor sales to 4 a.m. I guess she doesn't seem too concerned about increasing the number of alcohol related deaths by sending really drunk people out on to the roads in the early hours of the morning.

The greedy tax and spend governor has a huge wish list from the bailout bill. With liberals, it's never enough. She even wants the money turned down by other governors. After all, to her, it's free money. Of course the growing deficit will be no fault of her party. She needs to study economics a little better. Perhaps her next role should be of student.

I wonder how the tobacco shop owners feel about all of the tax breaks the governor has handed to her Hollywood buddies to come to Michigan? Granholm thinks the movie industry is going to bring Michigan a windfall of revenue like it does California. Ask Arnold and the California legislature how much money Hollywood brings to California.

I propose a new role for our governor. A role once played by Gray Davis. RE-CALLED GOVERNOR. She wants Michigan to be like her former home, California. Let's help her. If they can recall a governor who can't run the state then so can we. Enough is enough! If the voters in this state asked themselves yearly 'are you better off now then you were last year?' she would fail every year. Our state missed the economic upswing that could have helped sustain us through this downturn. Many of our businesses were forced to move to states where business is encouraged, not punished. Look what she has left us with. And now another business will be packing up and leaving to a more viable market if she gets this new tax through. Again, her greed is going to cost us. Loose tobacco sales have gone up as people try to cut costs. That means the tax revenue from loose tobacco has also increased. So as usual, Granholm sees her cue to tax it to death. SHE'S AN IDIOT!!

Let the Governor know she is an IDIOT! Perhaps if she gets enough letters and phone calls letting her know she is an IDIOT, she will beg President Obama to make her ambassador to the Netherlands so she can watch the windmills turn. And we will be saved the cost of a recall election. And besides, the Lt. Governor looks like he enjoys a good cigar.


Governor Jennifer M. Granholm
P.O. Box 30013
Lansing, Michigan 48909
PHONE: (517) 373-3400
PHONE: (517) 335-7858 - Constituent Services
FAX:(517) 335-6863