One Naughty Nerd: Rick Snyder Revealed

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Just in time to go with Rick Snyder’s comeback kid campaign, some of the shadow government paid for by the defunct NERD fund has come to light and it’s not pretty.

If you don’t know what the NERD (New Energy to Reinvent and Diversify) Fund is, or was, it was a secret fund in which unknown parties could contribute in exchange for kickbacks from the Snyder administration, handled by hired hit man, Richard Baird. Among the highlights of this fund were CVS Pharmacy’s parent company receiving a $60 million bid for development in Detroit, and picking up EM Kevyn Orr’s six-figure salary and room service tab. New emails recently released through the Freedom Of Information Act reveal that Baird took care of a little problem for the governor’s cousin, George Snyder.

George Snyder is president of DBI, the company that supplies office furniture for the capital in Lansing. The emails released show that Richard Baird made sure that when the state legislature voted for budget cuts, the part of the bill that would have affected DBI was removed. Hooray! It’s good to have family in high places.

The only problem with this is Rick Snyder campaigned on things like ?shared sacrifice,? which we all found out after Snyder was elected really meant making poor people and old people pay more taxes, and schools and communities still trying to recover from the Wall Street financial crisis make do with less; Much less. Rich people and members of Snyder’s family benefited from the shared sacrifice of the young, poor and old.

Snyder’s office insists in true move along, nothing to see here style that the emails are no smoking gun. The governor did nothing wrong when his NERD funded special manager pulled strings to save DBI; just angry Democrats trying to make something out of nothing. A nothing that’s already made national news and promises to be a sticky subject just as the governor ramps up his re-election campaign. It couldn’t happen to a more deserving nerd.

Edited/Published by: SB

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