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The best justice money can buy

by: Eric B.

Mon Sep 10, 2012 at 13:24:02 PM EDT


Used to merely be a state Senate that Matty Maroun owned. Now, it's Supreme Court justices.

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Four members of the family of Ambassador Bridge owner Matty Moroun gave the maximum allowable campaign contribution to two Republican Michigan Supreme Court justices who voted to put a proposal designed to block a competing bridge on the Nov. 6 ballot.

They go on to claim that there wasn't any opposition to the proposal in June, which is true in the same way that there wasn't any opposition to benevolent overlord Rick Michigan's mad plan to build the second span to Canada without legislative support in February.

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When
When is someone finally just going to cold call him on this bullsh%t, already?  This has been dragging on for years now, and the pushback against Matty is still half-assed.  This is such blatant purchasing of politicians that there should be a concerted effort to discredit Matty at every turn, and yet you won't hear his name in any opposition rhetoric against him.  Hell, the polling on this even shows that Matty bull is not working with the public, anymore, and quite frankly with no one but the Senate Republicans, so when are the rest of the powers that be going to put their 'effing money where their mouths are, already?

Yeah, I'm mad, but more frustrated and and tired than anything.  This is a softball.  This man is literally a caricature of a billionaire.  There is absolutely nothing politically disadventageouos about finally slurring this guys' name given the sh%t he's already pulled against his opponents.


Monty Burns
I'm surprised how easy and common it is to frame this guy as Michigan's Monty Burns, and how inept our political elite have been in doing it.  For all the money those people make, they could literally make him out to be a cartoon villain who everyone can identify with and appreciate and, most importantly, laugh at, and they seem to be stuck in lame, ineffective things.

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