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    Michigan governor backs Romney's presidential bid

    By KASIE HUNT | Associated Press – Thu, Feb 16, 2012

    WASHINGTON (AP) — Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder on Thursday threw his support behind Mitt Romney's bid for the Republican presidential nomination, calling the former Massachusetts governor "the man for the job."

    "Given his accomplishments, background, character, experience, ideas and intellect, Mitt Romney has what it takes to build a foundation for America's success in this global economy," Snyder wrote in an op-ed column published Thursday by The Detroit News.

    Romney is fighting rival Rick Santorum to win the Feb. 28 Republican primary in Michigan. Losing would be a significant embarrassment for Romney, whose father, George, served as Michigan's governor before losing his presidential bid in 1968.

    Snyder — who, like Romney, is a former venture capitalist — was elected in 2010 after campaigning as an outsider with business experience.

    Romney made a direct pitch Thursday to tea partyers, an important force in the Michigan GOP and a group Santorum counts on for support. Romney invited several tea party activists to a roundtable discussion in Monroe, Mich. He called the federal debt immoral because it crushes future generations, and promised to cut spending sharply.

    In the op-ed, Snyder praised Romney's performance as Massachusetts governor as well as his plans to cut federal government spending.

    Snyder's backing caps Romney's significant establishment support in the state, where dozens of local officials have already signed on to back him. Romney spent his childhood in Michigan and won the GOP primary in 2008, and a decision from Snyder to back a rival or to stay out of the presidential contest would have been a blow.

    A Republican official told The Associated Press on Wednesday that Snyder will speak in support of Romney at a local Chamber of Commerce luncheon Thursday in Farmington Hills, Mich. Romney was addressing the group and Snyder was expected to appear with him. The official was not authorized to speak publicly about the announcement and requested anonymity.

    Romney also wooed tea partyers while campaigning in the state on Wednesday and arguing against the federal bailout of the auto industry.

    ___

    Associated Press writer Charles Babington in Monroe, Mich., contributed to this report.

     

    9 comments

    • cary
      cary  •  3 mths ago
      Unbelievable, If Mitt Romney would have been president in 2008 he would have let the car companies go bankrupt, and all the people of Michigan would be living in refrigerator boxes and pushing their belongings around in shopping carts right now.
    • Synical1
      Synical1  •  3 mths ago
      Ya right - the man for the job.
      The only one's getting a job here is the American taxpayer and it isn't work.
    • Tim
      Tim  •  3 mths ago
      well there goes my vote for you snyder.RON PAUL 2012!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    • No Go
      No Go  •  3 mths ago
      So now we have the now Michigan Governor, backing the guy that wanted the Michigan car companies to go bankrupt, and causing the State of Michigan to go bankrupt. Rick Snyder, and Mitt Romney two Sociopaths, bad for Michigan, and bad for America.
    • SYLVIA
      SYLVIA  •  Southfield, Michigan  •  3 mths ago
      Snyder loves to fire people too so whats so hard to figure out why he is going to support the Mitt.Look what Snyder did to the film industry here in Michigan--made hundred of people leave and caused the studios to go bankrupt." share the pain he says" and his buddy will do the same with the car industry IF he makes it to the white house.But they LOVE MICHIGAN.
    • No Go
      No Go  •  3 mths ago
      While Romney said let the American car companies go bankrupt, and be broken up, and sold off, Romney put his money in the Cayman Island, and Switzerland, Let Romney go, and be president of the Cayman Islands.
    • DocZom
      DocZom  •  3 mths ago
      Romney would have let GM & Chysler go under, yet the Gov. of that state backs him? Nothing like representing your population's best interests.
      • FFL exalted ruler
        FFL exalted ruler 3 mths ago
        Hey DocZom...you clearly don't know anything about economics. Romney didn't say let them go under. They should have filed bankruptcy and properly restructured. Why should these companies get our tax money to bail out poor management? They just propped up and as with any other bubble, eventually it pops.
      • No Go
        No Go 3 mths ago
        FFL you don't know what YOUR talking about, GM, said if they didn't get the Gov. money they would be broken up, and SOLD OFF, NOT RESTRUCTURED, GET YOUR FACTS RIGHT. Romney is LYING to say any different.
      • DocZom
        DocZom 3 mths ago
        FFL, there was no capital available to restructure, except money from the govt. The banks sure were not going to loan it after they had just been bailed out. Perhaps you should learn a bit more about how the economy works.
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      TallConnect.Com- Date Tal ...  •  Fremont, California  •  3 mths ago
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    • Sherley
      Sherley  •  Lima, Ohio  •  3 mths ago
      My father worked for (Willis Overland/Jeep (today Chrysler) 25yrs.and we had a good living .and so many in our old neighborhood all worked and made a good living. in Toledo OH...My brothers 44yrs...32yrs....had Mr. Romney had his way "go bankrupt"....Michigan/Ohio and the entire nation would have suffered more.......and Unions are good.....I am so fed up with people blaming Unions...my husband worked for UPS.....for 25yrs and UPS is thriving and hiring and expanding...and the Unions haven't hurt them either.......so to Mr. Romney, go back to your Business world of destroying corporations, and restructuring them for "profit for the investors"...and never once looked back at the thousands of ordinary workers he put out of work or even cared about them......THAT IS NO WAY TO RUN A NATION........AND WE DON'T WANT HIM..................NOT HERE IN TOLEDO, OR ANY OF OHIO....AND SAME FOR MICHIGAN..................GO HOME MR. ROMNEY TO YOUR BUSINESS WORLD....
      WE WON'T MISS YOU.....
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