Columnist asks, "Where oh where has Betsy DeVos gone?"

[Bozita]

Rochelle is too kind. She doesn't even mention Betsy's son's ownership of Blackwater USA, a private army for hire.

Remember those charred, dismembered corpses hanging from a bridge in Iraq? They were Blackwater employees.


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ROCHELLE RILEY: Don't forget Betsy DeVos

BY ROCHELLE RILEY
FREE PRESS COLUMNIST

November 1, 2006


Remember Betsy DeVos?

She was chairwoman of the Michigan Republican Party for two terms, a member of the Republican National Committee and a delegate several times to Republican National Conventions -- all over a 20-year political career.

She was a nationally known Republican strategist who state political observers once thought would someday make a great governor. But she's also a mother of four and wife of a millionaire businessman who himself has aspirations to higher political office, probably the U.S. presidency on the G.W. (Bush) Bill.

So the woman who might have run the state is instead running around the state, a ghost of her former political self, speaking on her husband's behalf as he tries to unseat Gov. Jennifer Granholm. Despite repeated entreaties to speak to me about her own aspirations and the role she would play if her husband is elected next week, three different spokes-people declined an interview on her behalf, including Dick DeVos' spokesman John Truscott, who said Betsy DeVos "doesn't see a role for herself in any policy- or decision-making positions. ... She is fine staying in the background. This race isn't about her at all."

The heck it isn't.

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[Bozita]

1. oops ... Eric Prince, owner of Blackwater USA, is Betsy's brother

Not her son.

[coco77]

2. Also why do I need Guliani to tell me who to vote for...

and Brooks Patterson's fat ass need to retire or just go away...