Jennifer Granholm

Jennifer Granholm Discusses New TV Show, Lauds Clean Air Standards

-San Jose Mercury News, January 24, 2012 by Jennifer Granholm
http://www.mercurynews.com/opinion/ci_19811871

When finalized in the summer, this strong national standard will save families in California and across the country thousands of dollars at the pump over a vehicle’s lifetime, reduce U.S. dependence on foreign oil and help to significantly reduce harmful carbon emissions.

-POLITICO, January 24, 2012 by Patrick Gavin
http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=5C322D03-7BAD-464A-975B-3E1BDCC505B0

“I will be a progressive, and I will be on the left side of the spectrum,” Granholm said. And she will be, largely, supportive of what she sees coming out of the Obama administration.

-The Detroit News, January 26, 2012 by Laura Berman
http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20120126/OPINION03/201260406/Granholm-spout-opinions-TV?odyssey=mod

She’s promising serious and lively discussion of public policy, sharp analysis and the politically progressive slant that is Current TV’s signature. The plan is to “dive deeply for political junkies” — a promise that can be read as a threat, if you’re not too keen on politics.

Jennifer Granholm Lands New TV Show

-The Baltimore Sun, October 12, 2011 by David Zurawik
http://bit.ly/s5Q3tM

“THE WAR ROOM will be a nightly show for political junkies like me and anyone who cares about the future of our country, focusing on the 2012 election from all angles.  As a former governor, I want to take the viewers backstage to the great American drama that is democracy.”

-Associated Press, October 12, 2011 by Frazier Moore
http://news.yahoo.com/former-mich-governor-host-current-tv-talk-show-163841528.html

“I’m really interested in solutions,” Granholm said. “We’ll be taking a deeper dive to solutions to the most pressing problems out there.”

Jennifer Granholm Wants to Jump-start US Economy

-Salon.com, September 19, 2011 by Andrew Leonard
http://politics.salon.com/2011/09/20/jennifer_granholm/singleton/

“We operate as though we are not in a global economy,” says Granholm. “In theory, free markets and laissez faire make perfect sense, but in practice, our competitors are eating us for lunch.”

-The Michigan View, September 20, 2011 by L. Brooks Patterson
http://bit.ly/pXaQcM

“I would do everything I could to influence how the forthcoming stimulus package would be structured so as to support a ‘rush to green’ strategy for Michigan,” she writes. “Chrysler is a great company making great cars with a green future.”

-POLITICO Pro, September 26, 2011 by Patrick Gavin
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0911/64438.html
I would create and incentivize a national “Jobs Race to the Top” competition among states.

-KQED-FM, September 30, 2011 Host Dave Iverson
http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201109300900
“Advanced manufacturing? You better believe [the United States] can compete on that. But we have to partner with business so that they can be competitive in a global economy when they locate in the United States.”

Jennifer Granholm Deplores Bleak Jobs Outlook

Los Angeles Times, May 15, 2011 by Don Lee
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-manufacturing-revival-20110515,0,1973190,full.story

It used to be that almost anyone willing to work hard could get ahead. Now, that doesn’t seem so certain. “The social contract was ripped in pieces, rendered ineffective by unforeseen forces such as globalization,” said former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm, who teaches at UC Berkeley’s law and public policy schools. “It needs to be rewritten for the 21st century.”

Jennifer Granholm and Daniel Mulhern Redefine Gender Roles

-Newsweek, May 1, 2011 by Dan Mulhern
http://www.newsweek.com/2011/05/01/how-to-be-a-real-man.html

You will honor her when you treat her as an equal, neither unduly backing down nor asking her to give up her principles and experience. You won’t have clear social roles to inherit. Instead, you’ll have to talk, negotiate, sacrifice, and make it up as you go along.

-Detroit Free Press, May 5, 2011 by Rochelle Riley
http://bit.ly/k7JKIy

When the priest asked the question, Granholm laughed out loud…. “I think he was testing Dan, to see whether he was open to change,” Granholm said of the prescient question. “I was coming (to Michigan) to be with him…. I had been politically active at Harvard, and I wanted to help him behind the scenes. It was an interesting flip of the script.”

“It’s a really good time to just get past or through whatever lingering male gender roles there are,” Mulhern said. “Men still can’t seem to understand that women’s wings have been clipped in terms of social and political opportunity for a long time.”