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Welcome to the Tudor Dixon podcast. I'm here with Kyle Olson today, and we are going to talk government corruption.

And the reason I want to talk about government corruption is Kyle does a lot here in the state of Michigan.

He has been following this story that I think everybody will find fascinating.

It's about Gretchen Wittmer.

She is obviously one of the top contenders for president in 28,

but she is being targeted by another Democrat in the state.

I guess I don't know if targeting is the right word.

I'm just surprised that the attorney general in the state

of Michigan, who is a hardcore dem, is investigating what she did, but it's pretty serious what

she's found out, which I think is fascinating. Yeah. So the big question is, should government be using

taxpayer dollars, whether it's Michigan or anywhere else,

using taxpayer dollars to give to companies to, quote unquote, create jobs?

And a number of states have been doing this for actually, you know, a pretty long time.

And so what we have been doing at the Midwesterner is really looking at, well,

what is Gretchen Whitmer, the governor of Michigan, actually doing? What companies is she giving

these dollars to? What sort of jobs are actually being created in all of that sort of thing?

And this really, I think it's exemplified in this story that's come out,

well, really it came out a few months ago, but it's really sort of coming to a head now,

where the MEDC, which is the Michigan Economic Development Corporation, which is the entity

that, you know, gets the taxpayer dollars and then decides who they're going to give the money to people who are either bringing a company here or, I mean, you guys have heard us talk about Goshen on here before, all of these companies that get lured into the state of Michigan, I will say, I want to stop you because you said a lot of

states do it. States do it effectively. Michigan has not had any of these contracts become

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