Brewer has a bad rep with a lot of Michigan Dems, but sometimes he cracks me right up. This is one of those times.
LANSING—As the DeVos family gets ready to set sail in the annual Port Huron-to-Mackinac race, Michigan Democratic Party Chair Mark Brewer wished them good luck. The DeVos family will be competing on their yacht the Windquest, named after the company Dick DeVos founded in 1989.
“I want to wish the DeVos family good luck in the race and hopefully while they are on the Lake Huron for three full days, they can help Dick calculate how he is going to pay for all his programs,” said Brewer. “Of course it might make them seasick trying to figure out how Dick is going to come up with $5 billion in proposals when he has no revenue to pay for it.”
DeVos has refused to provide real numbers for his economic plan, keeping voters in the dark about yet another issue until after the election. The proposals cost, at a minimum, over $5 billion which is more than 60% above Michigan’s current $8.38 billion general fund budget.
What the Freep story doesn't tell you is that Dick co-owed the boat with brother Doug and sold it off to him outright earlier this year, and that the Windquest was up for sale to the public last year.
Hmmmm. Wonder why Dick would do that...