Detroit \u2014 Ex-green jobs czar and 9-11 conspiracy theorist Van Jones may be persona non grata in Washington Democratic circles, but his radical ideas of a \u201ctotal transformation of society\u201d via a new, government-ordered green economy still resonate among Democrats here in the Midwest. Jones will be raising money on June 12 in Michigan\u2019s state capital for green governor Jennifer Granholm\u2019s political cashbox \u2014 the Granholm Leadership Fund \u2014 as the keynote speaker at the \u201cMichigan Summit: Blueprint for Change.\u201d The event is sponsored by Granholm\u2019s puppeteers, the United Autoworkers Union and the Michigan Education Association (the state\u2019s largest teachers union).<\/P>
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\u201cWe wanted to alert you to an exciting event coming up,\u201d reads a fundraising e-mail from the guv\u2019s fund. \u201cRegister to hear the globally recognized, award-winning pioneer in human rights and the clean-energy economy bring his positive message of change to Michigan! . . . . Here in Michigan, where we stand on the cusp of a clean energy jobs revolution, Jones\u2019 message is vital to remaking our economy so we all share in the prosperity, not just the privileged few.\u201d<\/P>
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Green workers of the world unite! Jones\u2019 radical message echoes that of Granholm, a market socialist and close Obama ally who has been subsidizing green industries with state and federal monies. She and Jones both appeared at the \u201cGreen Today, Jobs Tomorrow\u201d conference in Lansing a year ago, as reported by MITechNews.com: \u2018You are at ground zero of the new economy that will define the new century,\u2019 said Van Jones, President Barack Obama\u2019s special advisor on green jobs, enterprise and innovation. \u2018We\u2019ll either create the jobs of the future in the industrial heartland or we\u2019ll create no jobs at all.\u2019 Granholm, in later remarks to the conference, said, \u201cThe growth trajectory is huge as long as the policy is right. The opportunity for us to lead the nation in being green is very bright.\u201d Jones particularly praised Granholm for her efforts to attract new battery production, an effort he said no other governor was undertaking.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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