Reply #2: I made this little info sheet from the website under the title.

[livvy]

I just copied and pasted, so it's not my original work. The second sheet I did write. I put these two pieces, a business card with Granholm's website on it, some talking points sheets, and a pamphlet on Granholm's achievements and goals in a manilla folder. I distributed the folders at a get-together with some friends. I told them to read the material, then pass the folder on to someone else. This was really inexpensive to do ($5.99 for 150 folders at Costco and the cost of printing out some copies of the two attached pieces). The folders were very happily accepted and I found that people were really interested to get more information about Scamway Dick. If I make any more folders to distribute, and I probably will, I will include a copy of this page:

http://www.michigandems.com/fieldoffices.html

so people will know where to go to volunteer to help with the campaign.

The copy for the folder had starred bullets. ______________________________________________________________________
What You Don’t Know About Dick
http://www.whatyoudontknowaboutdick.com/index.html

DeVos and Families
— Dick DeVos is opposed to raising the minimum wage and therefore keeping many
families living below the national poverty level.
— Former Michigan Republican Party Chair Betsy DeVos said that Michigan workers were paid too much and that Michigan should be a right-to-work state.
— Devos For Governor Campaign Chair David Brandon agrees with DeVos on opposing a raise in Michigan’s minimum wage, calling it a “job killer.”
— Dick DeVos has proposed a yearly tax increase of $800 per family by eliminating the Single Business Tax. DeVos' tax scheme will shift the tax burden from corporations to individuals, helping DeVos' corporate executive friends and costing Michigan households an additional $800 a year.
DeVos and Public Education
— Dick DeVos was the primary financier and chairman of the 2000 Voucher ballot initiative, a scheme to cut funding for public school education. He remains an advocate for Vouchers and has said that "when the time comes, we will bring the fight back to Michigan again."
— Dick DeVos quit the only position he has ever been elected to, the State Board of Education. DeVos quit two years into an eight year term, "cutting and running" on our children.
— Dick DeVos has no plan for improving education in Michigan. There are no policy initiatives listed on his website. While on the board of education, he was a proponent of plans to undermine Michigan’s public schools, by taking millions of dollars away from your neighborhood public schools, giving them away to expensive private schools, and then raising your taxes to pay for it.
DeVos and Jobs
— As head of Amway, Dick DeVos laid off nearly 1,400 people in Michigan in 1998 and 2000. The 1,400 jobs never came back to Michigan.
— Dick DeVos invested over $200 million in manufacturing plants which created jobs in China.
— Dick DeVos supports unfair free trade agreements, like NAFTA, and failed Washington policies that send Michigan jobs everywhere else. DeVos supports free trade, despite how it has hurt Michigan.
— Dick DeVos, though quick to criticize the work of others, has yet to come forward with a detailed, realistic plan of his own, other than political rhetoric. DeVos has been in the race since June and has not offered a single solution to Michigan's economic future.
— Instead of showing bi-partisan leadership in this time of crisis, Dick DeVos, through personal phone calls and media appearances, used his money and political influence to attempt to force Republicans in the Legislature to break their agreement for his own political gain, and at the cost of Michigan jobs.
DeVos and Ethics
— Dick DeVos was personally offered an Ambassadorship by Karl Rove for his help on the Bush Campaign.
— Dick DeVos' campaign Matthew Dowd has been described as 'former top lieutent' and at one point second only to Rove. Alex Castellanos worked with Rove on Media Strategy. Castellanos' past media strategy has included the infamous 'Rat Ad'.
— Rove chose Calvin College as one of two places Bush gave a commencement speech this year because of the DeVos family. DeVos Family has contributed to Rove's friends PACS. Betsy DeVos worked personally with Rove on Election strategy.
— Dick DeVos refuses to disclose his taxes, even though that has been the tradition in Michigan.
— Dick DeVos has been one of the biggest campaign contributors in Washington. According to the Wall Street Journal, the DeVos family "contributed more than any other to the Bush campaign and the Republican Party," around "$602,000, according to the Center for Responsive Politics in Washington."
— Taking advantage of the family political influence created by soft money contributions to the GOP, as President of Amway DeVos sought and got federal tax breaks on Amway's China investments and favorable China trade legislation, legislation which resulted in hundreds of millions of dollars of benefits for Amway, himself and his family.
— Dick DeVos personally allowed Tom DeLay to hold a Republican Majority Issues Committee meeting on his yacht.
— According to the FEC, DeVos and his Political Action Committee (PAC), Restoring the American Dream have exchanged thousands of dollars with DeLay, his campaign committee and his PAC, Americans for a Republican Majority.

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The copy I made for the folder had some clipart, etc., but this is what it said.

Before you cast your vote, consider the following:

Decide which candidate has the most to gain in terms of power and/or money by winning, then vote for the other candidate.

An elected official who uses their office as a means of expressing their will, frequently gains this power by taking away some of yours in terms of your freedom, your voice, or your rights.

Money, like energy, doesn't evaporate into nothing. It is simply transferred from your pocket to theirs, or to the pockets of the few who are closest to them.

So think about it before you vote this November. Which of the candidates has the potential to gain the most in terms of power and money? You want to vote for the candidate that has the least to gain personally, because they most likely have your best interests in mind.

Hopefully, these materials will help you to make the best decision, for you, for the people of Michigan, and for our great state itself.