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In five years, you're going to be blown away by the strength and diversity of Michigan's transformed economy.

Jennifer Granholm

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Jennifer Granholm
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: February 5
Beauty Pageant Contestant
Former Governor Of Michigan
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Jennifer Mulhern Granholm
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I love the protest signs protected by the First Amendment - some of them humorous, some of them passionate, some factual, some entirely incorrect - all of them free ideas.
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Do we want in this nation to lose the backbone of manufacturing in this country? Do we want to be a nation that doesn't want to manufacture anything?
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Many original occupiers believe the political system has become so corrupt that even participating in it, engaging with it, corrupts the movement. I understand what they are saying. But often, change does come more quickly from the inside rather than the outside. My advice: try both. But don't try violence.
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