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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

Perhaps nationally, but not on a local level, do you think? michigan's governor was a "business republican." We were a mess from our prior liberal governor (not saying all lib govs are bad, but Grandholm was horrible). Kids graduating left. There were no jobs here. Now people are moving to the state, which is crazy- and he is stepping down- and i worry about the apparently hair brained gov coming in.

I think a more universal statement might be that Rs don't look at the relative impact of decisions on minorities, as an example.

The prior govenor did something no Dem could have done- we had several big cities in serious financial trouble. They were majority black cities, yet the white govenor stepped in and appointed a person to take over control of the cities. From one standpoint he was trying to fix cities that were truly broken- example the residents of Detroit had little or no basic services. Snow wasn't cleared, garbage often wasn't etc. Wouldn't fixing the cities "help" the minority residents?

But on the other hand think about the negative impact on the people in a city that they need outside control?

In one instance it worked rmarkably well- Detroit is becoming vibrant- and local control has returned- services are returning- and the prior residents are benefitting- of course now we are seeing gentrification- which is somewhat amazing, but problematic.

In one instance it blew up- the "outside control" led to the Flint water crisis. and even if you can look at the city and agree that the outside control did need to step in, that outside control has to come with substantial care for the reaities of those w/o representation people. Once the water problem surfaced it should have been a four alarm fire of needing to get fixed- the steps leading to creating the problem are almost forgivable, but the early response was grossly negligent if not flat out showing a flavor of bigotry against the poor.

"Business Republicans" are something different from conservatives, and there is more room for them at the state and local level, especially in states that lean blue where a Republican can win by picking up Democratic votes.