Biden’s Energy Secretary nominee Jennifer Granholm is a failed politician’s triple threat: a disastrous record, broken promises, and conflicts of interest.
Granholm’s record as Michigan’s governor was marked by “a budget crisis, a rise in taxes, a poor economy and a rising unemployment rate.” With such a terrible record, it’s no wonder she left office “highly unpopular.”
In a string of broken promises, she pledged to bring new green jobs to Michigan, an effort which fell well short of projections.
She gave millions in tax credits to green energy companies, only for many to file for bankruptcy a few years later. And in almost comical mismanagement, the Granholm administration granted $9M in tax credits to convicted embezzler Richard Short, with Granholm praising Short at a press conference the day before he was arrested.
And now, as she seeks to bring that failed record to the Department of Energy, she has millions in financial interests in the very industries she wants to promote, a clear appearance of a conflict of interest.
Bottom line: Granholm was a failed governor who would be a failure as energy secretary. Her disastrous record is a warning sign for the very workers whose livelihoods Biden’s policies are already threatening.
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