Thursday, April 30, 2009

Plutocrats for Change

The Joanne Voorhees story is the perfect summation of how small minded the local GOP can be. Telling Jon Huntsman he's not conservative enough for West Michigan makes me wonder how they can go about their daily lives without constantly being exposed to the dreaded Liberalism

Anyhow, the lightning speed with with the state GOP was able to to get Betsy DeVos to sponsor a substitute soiree for Huntsman shows how plutocrat Republicans can be counted on to stick together. Ms. DeVos is the daughter of billionaire Edgar Prince and the wife of the son of Billionaire Rich DeVos (and don't forget, the sister of Blackwater founder Eric Prince).

Jon Huntsman is the son of Utah Billionaire Jon Huntsman Sr. - so of course he felt right at home with the DeVos's (who hosted him at their own hotel, the ultra-deluxe JR Marriott in Grand Rapids. Ohmigod - the Marriotts are from Utah too! (Probably billionaires).

A splendid time was had by all. Sorry Joanne.

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