Seems Brooks let his mouth get away from him when the Governor wouldn't give him some cookies.
"Granholm's obviously an impediment, and I hope Hillary Clinton gets elected president in 2008 and names her to her cabinet so she can get the hell out of Michigan and we can turn this state around," Patterson said.
No word on whether Brooks would be heading up Hillary's campaign here in Michigan.
Patterson, who led the petition drive to can the SBT without a replacement, a move which tanked our rating on Wall Street, blew a $2 billion dollar hole in the budget, and made it harder to attract new business here, apparently wanted to cost our state even more money. Which shouldn't surprise anybody.
In July, Patterson announced the county's intent to issue $500 million in taxable bonds to fully fund its retiree health care liability. By issuing bonds, the county would save $150 million over 20 to 30 years and reduce its funding period by 10 years, officials said.
But the plan required a change in state law, which lawmakers did during their last session of the legislative term in December. They approved a bill that would have allowed cities, counties, villages and townships to issues bonds to cover 75 percent of retiree health costs.
But Granholm never signed the measure, effectively vetoing it. Boyd said under the federal government's Medicaid formula -- which considers personal income in its reimbursement rate -- the bonds would have been considered income. Patterson disagrees.
Brooks is taking this personally.
"It's an act of part incompetence, part ignorance and retribution for my involvement of the repeal of the single business tax," he said. "It's a petty partisan political act by a governor hell-bent on retribution."
Doubtful that the Governor did this for "retribution", but I'm glad that Brooks thinks she did. Makes for some great quotes.
"I guess I'll just file this in the 'paybacks are hell' category."
Yes, Brooks, yes they are. Especially when they are born of a guilty conscience.