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Reeducation and retraining are key to industrial states dealing with the effects of globalization, Michigan Governor Jennifer M. Granholm told a crowd of about 200 last night at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum. Granholm, who was elected the first female governor of Michigan in 2002, is also a 1987 graduate of Harvard Law School. Many consider the Canadian-born governor, who delivered a prime-time speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, to be her party’s answer to California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. “Michigan is the poster child for the deindustrialization of America...
...Jennifer Granholm has been a Democratic Party star ever since she was elected Michigan's Governor in 2002. A cerebral centrist and former prosecutor with TV-ready glamour, Granholm coasted through her first two years in office with lofty approval ratings. But now the Governor, already hurt by Michigan's persistent economic woes, is facing a politically perilous decision: whether to grant clemency to a woman whose 1993 murder conviction in state court was later declared "a travesty" by a federal judge...
...overturned her conviction, saying her trial lawyers had been "manifestly and flagrantly ineffective." She was released, but last year a federal appeals court reversed the ruling. In April, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to take her case. Next week a judge will decide whether to revoke her bond. Unless Granholm intervenes to grant clemency, Hargrave-Thomas will probably go back to serving a life sentence...
...Hargrave-Thomas says. But that is no easy decision. Hargrave-Thomas has a broad range of supporters--from Democratic Senator Carl Levin to Judge Gadola, a Ronald Reagan appointee who has publicly said she "very likely is innocent." But the victim's family opposes setting her free, and if Granholm did so, she would risk being labeled soft on crime. G.O.P. state chairman Saul Anuzis last week issued a statement warning the Governor not "to release a convicted murderer due to political pressure." --By James Carney
...D.N.C.) chairman started off with several advantages, including a loyal base that wrote a gazillion letters on his behalf and a lack of serious competition from other prominent Dems. Some Democratic Governors sought an anybody-but-Dean candidate, but neither former Nebraska Senator Bob Kerrey nor Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm could be persuaded to run. Likewise, Iowa's Tom Vilsack decided that being Governor and D.N.C. chairman at the same time would complicate his political career, and he never entered the race...