Rick Snyder, spineless wonder, caves to the haters AGAIN.

[catbyte]

http://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/breaking_michigan_governor_immediately_signs_anti_gay_religious_adoption_bills_into_law

Breaking: Michigan Governor Quickly Signs Anti-Gay Religious Adoption Bills Into Law

Governor Rick Snyder took barely 18 hours to sign into law bills that allow state-funded adoption agencies to discriminate against gay people for religious reasons.

Rick Snyder wasted no time in signing three controversial and possibly unconstitutional bills into law this morning. The Republican Governor of Michigan last night was presented with the bills, which allow taxpayer funded adoption agencies to discriminate against LGBT people if they cite a sincerely held religious belief, including refusing to let gay people or same-sex couples adopt from their agency.

That means that the 14,000 children in need of adoption in Michigan will have it even harder, and will cost the state even more financially. Currently, those adoption agencies receive about $10 million annually via state and federal funds.
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That despicable LIAR has turned my once great into Michissippi or Upper Dumbfuckistan. I don't think I hate a politician more than Snyder. He ran as a moderate, and is nothing but a fucking, spineless POS.

[randys1]

1. F I L T H

[3catwoman3]

2. Electing a governor with either a first or...

...last name of Rick or Scott seems to guarantee disaster -

Rick Snyder
Rick Scott
Rick Perry
Scott Walker

[KamaAina]

3. Both first and last seems to guarantee thermonuclear disaster.

The Rude One and others call pRick Scott "Governor Skeletor"!

[safeinOhio]

4. I think the states average IQ

will go up a little this fall.

I'm moving back.

[gollygee]

5. Worst governor ever.

We thought Engler was bad.

[Art_from_Ark]

6. What about Mitt's dad?

[gollygee]

7. Before my time

so I can't speak to that.

[etherealtruth]

8. According to my Democrat parents he wasn't really bad

Here's two modern views


http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/08/how-george-romney-championed-civil-rights-and-challenged-his-church/261073/

George Romney, the former governor of Michigan, was well known for supporting Civil Rights, not just through words but through financial policies. During his gubernatorial term, he expanded state social programs, including for programs for the poor and unemployed, and created an income tax levy.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/10/19/george-romney-s-real-civil-rights-record.html

Just because George Romney was correct on the civil rights issue doesn’t mean that he was a natural politician or a faultless human being. He could be willful, bad-tempered, blustery, moralistic, inarticulate, self-aggrandizing, and self-contradictory (“I believe a man can be a genuine conservative and a genuine liberal at the same time”). Bohrer isn’t wrong about Romney’s flaws, but doesn’t sufficiently recognize what remains appealing about him: his heartfelt and outspoken support of civil rights, his visits to the ghettos to convince poor people and minorities that Republicans cared about them and that GOP policies could improve their lives, his willingness to criticize the business domination of his party as well as union dominance of the Democrats, his ability to secure genuine bipartisan accomplishments from the Michigan state legislature regardless of which party was in power, his capacity to admit error and reevaluate his previous pronouncements, and the sense that his political positions reflected what he honestly believed despite their ideological inconsistency. For all his defects, he had the qualities that are most needed to overcome the defects in our current political system. That’s why George Romney still matters, and why so many Americans hope that if Mitt Romney is elected he will prove to be his father’s son.

[catbyte]

9. Actually, he was okay for a Republican. Romney & Bill Milliken were a dying breed of Republicans

who actually cared about governing and cared about Michiganders.

[Art_from_Ark]

10. He sounds a lot like Winthrop Rockefeller,

who was a progressive Republican governor of Arkansas at about the same time (1967-71). Also part of a dying breed of Republicans. Today, it's hard to put the words "Arkansas" and "Republican" together and not think "foaming at the mouth".