DetNews: Gubernatorial candidates ready to yak at breakfast

In case you missed it, The Detroit News covered the upcoming 9th District Pancakes & Politics '09 Christmastime Brunch. You can register for the event at here.

From The Detroit News:

Gubernatorial candidates ready to yak at breakfast

The dais will be crowded for the Third Annual Pancakes & Politics '09 Christmastime Brunch on Dec. 5.

Confirmed for the gabfest are gubernatorial candidates Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard , Sen. Tom George , Congressman Pete Hoekstra , businessman Rick Snyder , and Attorney General Mike Cox , said Glenn Clark of the 9th Congressional District Republican Party, the event's sponsor.

Sen. Majority Leader Michael Bishop and former state Court of Appeals Judge Bill Schuette , who are vying for attorney general, also said they'd be there, as well as secretary of state candidates Sen. Cameron Brown , Sen. Michelle McManus , Calhoun Clerk Anne Norlander and Rep. Paul Scott .

Plan to spend a long morning at Petruzzello's Banquet Center in Troy since each candidate gets five minutes to speak. (Political Insider bets they all run long.)

Call (248) 410-8651 or e-mail mi9thgop@gmail.com for tickets.

Liberal Gary Peters in lock-step with Liberal Nancy Pelosi 96% of the time

Gary Peters ran for Congress promising to be an independent voice for Oakland County who stands up for his district, not for his political party.

Well, Gary lied.

In a vote analysis conducted by The Washington Post, liberal Gary Peters was found to have voted with his party and with liberal Nancy Pelosi over 96% of the time over the last 11 months.

That puts Peters in the same company with New York's ethically-challenged Charlie Rangel, California's "Big Three Killer" Henry Waxman, Detroit's Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick and John Conyers (enough said), and Massachusetts' Barney Frank (who precipitated the mortgage-back securities meltdown).

How does he compare to all Democratic members in the House? Gary is MORE PARTISAN than the average Democratic members and MORE PARTISAN than average Republican member.

Who else is Peters more partisan than? Ironically enough, though professing to be an independent, moderate, pro-business fiscally conservative Democrat, Gary Peters has proven to be MORE PARTISAN than former Congressman Joe Knollenberg, whom Peters lambasted for supposedly voting in lock step with his party and with President George Bush.

According to The Washington Post, in his last term in Congress, Rep. Joe Knollenberg's voting record was SIGNIFICANTLY LESS PARTISAN than Gary Peters.' What's more, Knollenberg was less partisan than Peters over the course of his entire eight terms in Congress.

Peters' intensely liberal, partisan voting record isn't surprising given the fact that he was recruited, bought and paid for by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, liberal environmentalist groups, and Big Union dollars.

This year, Peters has accepted nearly HALF A MILLION DOLLARS in special interest campaign contributions from LOBBYISTS and POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEES. That’s money from unions, from trial lawyers, from health care lobbyists and from Wall Street. Peters is NOT an independent voice; he’s bought and paid for by his liberal special interest cronies. His voting record shows it.

"Pro-business Gary" votes to damage small businesses, increase unemployment

Gary Peters ran for Congress as a pro-business Democrat, but it turns out that the biggest vote of his 11 months in the House of Representatives would entirely cripple small businesses while contributing to lower wages and higher unemployment.

Peters voted FOR the Democrat's version of health care reform, and this week the National Federation of Independent Business said that Peters' plan for health care reform would be devastating for small businesses.

And when small businesses go out of business, more Americans are put out of work. With Michigan's 15.2 percent unemployment rate -- the highest in the nation -- fewer jobs is one thing we cannot afford.

According to the NFIB, the House health care legislation will RAISE costs for small businesses, which will lead to lower wages and job losses. Here are the details on the employer mandate in H.R. 3962, which Gary Peters SUPPORTED.

From the NFIB:

H.R. 3962 will raise costs for small business owners because it includes:

Employer Mandate: requires employers to pay for healthcare for full-time and part-time employees.

• An employer mandate does not address the No. 1 issue facing small businesses: unsustainable costs.
• Hurts owners who do not offer coverage today and those who already do provide insurance:
• Employers will be required to offer a government mandated benefits package.
• Employers must pay at least 72.5% toward the cost of individual plans and 65% toward the cost of family plans.
• An employer mandate is a one-two punch. The cost first hits the employer, but the cost of a mandate is ultimately paid by the employee: through job loss and lower wages.

There are alternatives to the Democrat health care plan, but Gary Peters and his cronies Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid REFUSED TO ALLOW REPUBLICANS to come to the table and create true bi-partisan legislation.

Instead, Gary Peters put up a show, held out until the last minute on the health care vote, and late on a Saturday night pulled a lever for the greatest expansion of government in our generation.

It's clear whose side Gary is on -- Nancy Pelosi's and the liberal leadership in Washington.

Where did the money go, Gary? And where are the jobs?

Jobs.

Those are the things Gary Peters promised to deliver when he went to Congress.

Promises.

Those are the pesky little things Gary Peters has failed to deliver on since he was elected.

Though Peters voted for President Barack Obama's $787 billion stimulus package (that's "billion" with a "b"), and though $1.2 billion of that money has been distributed to Michigan, ZERO jobs have actually been created with all that money.

But don't take our word for it.

The Detroit Free Press (no friend to Republicans, I might add) conducted a study on whether any of the stimulus dollars that came to Michigan actually resulted in any jobs, as the Obama administration claimed.

The result of their study?

The Free Press found that the $1.2 billion created ZERO jobs in Michigan (that's "zero" with a "z").

So the question for Gary Peters is, "Where are the results? Where are the jobs you promised, Gary? What did those billions of dollars of spending produce?"

More taxes for Oakland County families, more debt, more regulations, longer unemployment lines, and fewer personal freedoms. That's what.

Gary Peters: Four votes to destroy America

When Gary Peters ran for Congress last year, he posed as a pro-business, fiscal conservative in order to convince conservative-leaning independent voters in the 9th District to give him their vote on Election Day.

Not surprisingly, the wolf has emerged from sheep's clothing, and Peters has proven to be an intensely liberal lap-dog for Speaker Nancy Pelosi's radical agenda.

In today's National Review Online, writer Mike Franc describes the four fundamental pieces of Democratic legislation that will fundamentally reshape America into a radically different form: Barack Obama's $787 billion job stimulus package, the 2010 budget, cap and trade legislation, and health care reform.

Though many conservative Democrats voted against the legislation because of their extremely high cost to the American way of life, Gary Peters is among those liberals who voted for ALL FOUR bills. Here's why they're so dangerous for America. From the National Review:

If signed into law, collectively these four measures would remake America. Arguably, none of our previous major public-policy upheavals — not the New Deal of the 1930s or Great Society of the 1960s on the political left, nor the 1980s Reagan Revolution or the short-lived 1990s Republican Contract with America on the right — would rival this one for the extent to which it would permanently alter the relationship between the federal government and ordinary Americans...

These bills call for new and unprecedented levels of taxation, spending, regulation, and debt (total federal debt, for example, would triple in the next decade alone); they would usher in an entitlement crisis measurably worse than even the most jaded budget experts previously thought possible; environmentally based trade protectionism in the form of carbon tariffs would undermine the post–World War II consensus that international trade is good and must be as free and open as possible; regulations on the production and use of energy would squeeze the budgets of American families and threaten the existence of millions of small businesses; and, finally, the federal welfare state and all its pathologies would extend far into the reaches of a formerly self-reliant middle class, and in so doing limit the ability of future generations to equal or exceed the achievements of previous ones.

In short, here's what Gary Peters voted for:

Unprecedented levels of taxation.

Unprecedented levels of spending.

A new, incalculably expensive entitlement.

A massive expansion of the welfare state into the middle class.

Energy regulations that would cripple families and small businesses.

Those aren't policies people in the 9th Congressional District favor. That's not the platform Gary Peters ran on last year.

But it is the record we're going to hold him to in 2010.

Gary Peters' stimulus vote brings ZERO jobs to Oakland County

Gary Peters ran for Congress last year promising to bring jobs to Michigan's 9th Congressional District.

So far, he has totally and utterly failed.

Peters voted for President Barack Obama's $787 billion stimulus package, and $1.2 billion of that money has been sent to Michigan. But according to a Detroit Free Press investigation, all of those taxpayer dollars have not created or saved ANY new jobs in Michigan.

From the Free Press report:

Seven months into the massive federal stimulus program, the vast majority of government grants, contracts and loans in Michigan so far have created or retained virtually no jobs.

Seven months later, and the much vaulted stimulus has created NO jobs? Where's the beef, Gary?

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