Jennifer Granholm writes for POLITICO, April 10, 2012
Boehner has repeatedly hounded the president about an all-of-the-above energy strategy. So it seems weird for Republicans to be picking energy “winners and losers.” How is it that they can vote to extend tax credits for oil but not for wind?
Jennifer Granholm writes for POLITICO, April 3, 2012
A person without insurance is arguably a disproportionately oversized player in the marketplace of health care, most likely having more impact on commerce — uncompensated care, debt, bankruptcies, collections, cost shifting — than the person with an insurance policy.
Jennifer Granholm writes for POLITICO, March 26, 2012
Boiled down, if you believe access to health care is a right, then you want the government to make it available to all. If you believe health care is a privilege, then each person earns their own and government’s role is minimal.
Jennifer Granholm writes for The Huffington Post, March 21, 2012
Now for the reality check: this budget has absolutely no chance of becoming law. Everyone knows it will never see the light of day in the Senate.
Jennifer Granholm writes op-ed for POLITICO, March 12, 2012
Indeed, Republican obsession with Planned Parenthood alone has become a form of legislative sexual McCarthyism. Any program that has a remote link to Planned Parenthood is targeted for eradication — regardless of the collateral damage to poor women.
POLITICO, February 27, 2012 by Jennifer Granholm
http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=731AE657-FDBF-43A2-8F57-113D75270788
In their zeal to “let Detroit go bankrupt,” what’s left unsaid is the fact that the tea-steeped Republican presidential candidates are bankrupt of new ideas for moving this country forward in an aggressive global economy, bankrupt of compassion for those who are less fortunate and bankrupt of compromise with those who view the issues differently than they do.
-San Jose Mercury News, January 24, 2012 by Jennifer Granholm
http://www.mercurynews.com/opinion/ci_19811871
When finalized in the summer, this strong national standard will save families in California and across the country thousands of dollars at the pump over a vehicle’s lifetime, reduce U.S. dependence on foreign oil and help to significantly reduce harmful carbon emissions.
-POLITICO, January 24, 2012 by Patrick Gavin
http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=5C322D03-7BAD-464A-975B-3E1BDCC505B0
“I will be a progressive, and I will be on the left side of the spectrum,” Granholm said. And she will be, largely, supportive of what she sees coming out of the Obama administration.
-The Detroit News, January 26, 2012 by Laura Berman
http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20120126/OPINION03/201260406/Granholm-spout-opinions-TV?odyssey=mod
She’s promising serious and lively discussion of public policy, sharp analysis and the politically progressive slant that is Current TV’s signature. The plan is to “dive deeply for political junkies” — a promise that can be read as a threat, if you’re not too keen on politics.
The Macomb Daily, September 18, 2011 by Kathy Barks Hoffman
http://www.macombdaily.com/articles/2011/09/18/news/politics/doc4e76bf5826994006546287.txt
“If people think that cutting taxes and shrinking government by themselves are going to improve their economy, they should look at what happened to Michigan over the (past) decade,” Granholm told The Associated Press in a telephone interview.
-The Baltimore Sun, October 12, 2011 by David Zurawik
http://bit.ly/s5Q3tM
“THE WAR ROOM will be a nightly show for political junkies like me and anyone who cares about the future of our country, focusing on the 2012 election from all angles. As a former governor, I want to take the viewers backstage to the great American drama that is democracy.”
-Associated Press, October 12, 2011 by Frazier Moore
http://news.yahoo.com/former-mich-governor-host-current-tv-talk-show-163841528.html
“I’m really interested in solutions,” Granholm said. “We’ll be taking a deeper dive to solutions to the most pressing problems out there.”
-Salon.com, September 19, 2011 by Andrew Leonard
http://politics.salon.com/2011/09/20/jennifer_granholm/singleton/
“We operate as though we are not in a global economy,” says Granholm. “In theory, free markets and laissez faire make perfect sense, but in practice, our competitors are eating us for lunch.”
-The Michigan View, September 20, 2011 by L. Brooks Patterson
http://bit.ly/pXaQcM
“I would do everything I could to influence how the forthcoming stimulus package would be structured so as to support a ‘rush to green’ strategy for Michigan,” she writes. “Chrysler is a great company making great cars with a green future.”
-POLITICO Pro, September 26, 2011 by Patrick Gavin
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0911/64438.html
I would create and incentivize a national “Jobs Race to the Top” competition among states.
-KQED-FM, September 30, 2011 Host Dave Iverson
http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201109300900
“Advanced manufacturing? You better believe [the United States] can compete on that. But we have to partner with business so that they can be competitive in a global economy when they locate in the United States.”
The Daily Beast, Newsweek, August 7, 2011 by Jennifer M. Granholm and Dan Mulhern
http://bit.ly/pQgXk4
Here is the tragedy: by insisting on a small-government, tax-cut-only solution to produce jobs, we are living by an outdated map of the economic world. Indeed, we may be accelerating the job losses as our competitors take advantage of our passivity.
MSNBC, The Last Word, May 31, 2011 Host Chris Hayes
http://thelastword.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/05/31/6758923-buyers-remorse-after-midterms
“People wanted to see a governor focus on jobs, and what you’re seeing in many of these states is governors that are focused on cutting funding for planned parenthood, or drug testing, things that are not going to salvage the economy.”
Los Angeles Times, May 15, 2011 by Don Lee
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-manufacturing-revival-20110515,0,1973190,full.story
It used to be that almost anyone willing to work hard could get ahead. Now, that doesn’t seem so certain. “The social contract was ripped in pieces, rendered ineffective by unforeseen forces such as globalization,” said former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm, who teaches at UC Berkeley’s law and public policy schools. “It needs to be rewritten for the 21st century.”
-Newsweek, May 1, 2011 by Dan Mulhern
http://www.newsweek.com/2011/05/01/how-to-be-a-real-man.html
You will honor her when you treat her as an equal, neither unduly backing down nor asking her to give up her principles and experience. You won’t have clear social roles to inherit. Instead, you’ll have to talk, negotiate, sacrifice, and make it up as you go along.
-Detroit Free Press, May 5, 2011 by Rochelle Riley
http://bit.ly/k7JKIy
When the priest asked the question, Granholm laughed out loud…. “I think he was testing Dan, to see whether he was open to change,” Granholm said of the prescient question. “I was coming (to Michigan) to be with him…. I had been politically active at Harvard, and I wanted to help him behind the scenes. It was an interesting flip of the script.”
“It’s a really good time to just get past or through whatever lingering male gender roles there are,” Mulhern said. “Men still can’t seem to understand that women’s wings have been clipped in terms of social and political opportunity for a long time.”