That's a pretty impressive figure, but what exactly has all that money accomplished? Has DeVos managed to define himself? The Jackson Citizen Patriot doesn't think so.
DeVos is spending like a man with national-level political aspirations -- well above what one would have thought possible in a state governor's race. Yet for all that spending, what do we know of Dick DeVos? That his sales pitch boils down to "I can do better than her."The hot seat - that's where the boys get separated from the men (or women as the case may be).
Others may have a philosophical objection to wealthy people buying their way into office. We are more pragmatic.
Who is Dick DeVos, and where does he want to lead this state? What can he do about the wrenching Michigan economic woes that have defied solution by both Republican and Democratic governors in the past? Such questions are not answered in the cushy pastures of campaign advertising, but in the sweaty forums of political debate, news interviews and editorial board meetings.
It's time for Dick DeVos to move his campaign to the hot seat.
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DeVos can't provide answers because he doesn't have any yet. Wait till the Repubs get done coaching him on what to say and how to say it and then you'll hear his plans, though they won't be his plans, they will be ideas created by the party and fed through him to further the ambitions of the right-wingers. They will use him like they use Bush to further their agenda.
Anonymous, DeVos provided his plan yesterday in Detroit, but the media is panning it as vague and unsubstantial. How much of it comes from him or from the party is hard to say. From what I've read, he's also influenced by fundamentalist religious convictions.
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