LANSING — A top adviser to Gov. Rick Snyder (click here) set up one-on-one phone conferences for members of Michigan’s Emergency Loan Board to interview Kevyn Orr for the Detroit emergency manager job three days before the board interviewed him in public, an e-mail released by the state shows.
Union activist Robert Davis, who is suing to overturn Orr’s appointment, says the e-mail is a “smoking gun” that shows state officials violated the Open Meetings Act in recruiting and selecting Orr.
But a spokesman for the Treasury Department said Thursday that the one-one-one interviews proposed by Snyder adviser Rich Baird never took place....
...The Baird e-mail and a second e-mail sent by Treasurer Andy Dillon were turned over to Davis on Wednesday, one day after Ingham County Circuit Judge William Collette scheduled a June 5 hearing at which Snyder, Dillon and Orr were to show why they should not be found in contempt of court for failing to provide records to Davis....
How to be Governor without being elected!
on May 31, 2013 at 2:57 PM, updated May 31, 2013 at 3:06 PM
But a spokesman for the Treasury Department said Thursday that the one-one-one interviews proposed by Snyder adviser Rich Baird never took place....
...The Baird e-mail and a second e-mail sent by Treasurer Andy Dillon were turned over to Davis on Wednesday, one day after Ingham County Circuit Judge William Collette scheduled a June 5 hearing at which Snyder, Dillon and Orr were to show why they should not be found in contempt of court for failing to provide records to Davis....
How to be Governor without being elected!
on May 31, 2013 at 2:57 PM, updated May 31, 2013 at 3:06 PM
...Rich Baird (click here) is known within the Snyder administration as the “transformation manager” – acting as a talent recruiter, adviser and facilitator for the Republican governor and his team. Baird has been involved in key administration hires, the Education Achievement Authority and many other initiatives since Snyder became governor by winning the 2010 election.
Baird is paid with private funds through a Snyder nonprofit – not taxpayer dollars. He may not make any policy decisions within the Snyder administration, but he often is a key player in gathering the information that leads to those decisions....
Every place where Snyder has exploitative and/or anti-citizen policy, there is Rich Baird. So really sits in the Governor seat? No chance the name Rich Baird appears on signed legislation. I mean they even look alike. Rich - Rick; Baird - Snyder.
MAY 18, 2013 AT 1:00 AM
Every place where Snyder has exploitative and/or anti-citizen policy, there is Rich Baird. So really sits in the Governor seat? No chance the name Rich Baird appears on signed legislation. I mean they even look alike. Rich - Rick; Baird - Snyder.
MAY 18, 2013 AT 1:00 AM
Lansing — Gov. Rick Snyder's administration (click here) has claimed the once-secret "skunk works" education reform project was not a government-sanctioned work group, but newly obtained administration correspondence suggests otherwise.
Emails obtained by The Detroit News through the Freedom of Information Act show at least three top Snyder aides were aware that a Department of Technology, Management and Budget official was forming the work group, just as the Republican governor was eyeing major changes to Michigan's public education system.
Records show the group was born during a mid-September lunch meeting between state Chief Information Officer David Behen, Snyder adviser Rich Baird and Richard McLellan, a GOP attorney who was separately studying ways to rewrite school funding laws at Snyder's behest....
Ah, how sweet Snyder's' best buddy needed another job playing with other people's money. I am sure no one else would be as qualified.
Friday, May 6, 2011
Snyder appoints member to Great Lakes Protection Fund Board of Directors (click here)
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEFriday, May 6, 2011
Contact: Sara Wurfel
Office: 517-335-6397
Email: wurfels@michigan.gov
LANSING, Mich. - Gov. Rick Snyder today announced the appointment of Rich Baird to the Great Lakes Protection Fund Board of Directors.
The Great Lakes Protection Fund is a private, nonprofit corporation formed in 1989 by the governors of the Great Lakes States. It is a permanent environmental endowment that supports collaborative actions to improve the health of the Great Lakes ecosystem.
"Rich's tremendous insight and experience make him well positioned to serve on this Board as we continue to safeguard our greatest natural resource, the Great Lakes," Snyder said.
Baird, of Bath, is the CEO of MI Partners, LLC, an organizational change consulting firm....
You would think MI Partners, LLC would be a Michigan company. Now, when I remember back to why I opposed Rick Snyder for Governor it was because he robbed the Michigan Brain Trust, gift wrapped it for Wall Street and exported jobs and revenue. I don't call that someone interested in Michigan. Michigan didn't need another draconian Wall Street bozo to sap the life out of it. I am just funny that way.
I looked and looked to find such a wonderful organization named after the great state of Michigan. This is all I found. Go figure.
MI Partner, LLC (click here)
8109 Linksview Drive
McKinny, Texas 75070
Phone (972) 529-3776
To the right is the street view.
The relationship Snyder has with Baird might be a threat to their marriages, but, to me it is more like the relationship Cheney had with Bush when Bush said, "Dick why don't you be Vice President. I have to be at the tee in 15 minutes."
Office: 517-335-6397
Email: wurfels@michigan.gov
LANSING, Mich. - Gov. Rick Snyder today announced the appointment of Rich Baird to the Great Lakes Protection Fund Board of Directors.
The Great Lakes Protection Fund is a private, nonprofit corporation formed in 1989 by the governors of the Great Lakes States. It is a permanent environmental endowment that supports collaborative actions to improve the health of the Great Lakes ecosystem.
"Rich's tremendous insight and experience make him well positioned to serve on this Board as we continue to safeguard our greatest natural resource, the Great Lakes," Snyder said.
Baird, of Bath, is the CEO of MI Partners, LLC, an organizational change consulting firm....
You would think MI Partners, LLC would be a Michigan company. Now, when I remember back to why I opposed Rick Snyder for Governor it was because he robbed the Michigan Brain Trust, gift wrapped it for Wall Street and exported jobs and revenue. I don't call that someone interested in Michigan. Michigan didn't need another draconian Wall Street bozo to sap the life out of it. I am just funny that way.
I looked and looked to find such a wonderful organization named after the great state of Michigan. This is all I found. Go figure.
8109 Linksview Drive
McKinny, Texas 75070
Phone (972) 529-3776
To the right is the street view.
The relationship Snyder has with Baird might be a threat to their marriages, but, to me it is more like the relationship Cheney had with Bush when Bush said, "Dick why don't you be Vice President. I have to be at the tee in 15 minutes."
