Subject: What the governor is talking about today
What the Governor’s Talking about
Today
Friday, April 9, 2010
Governor Praises Congressman Stupak as
Champion for Michigan
The governor today issued the following statement
on Congressman Bart Stupak’s decision to not seek re-election in Michigan’s 1st
Congressional District:
“Bart Stupak has been a stalwart fighter
for the 1st District and Michigan. As chairman of an Energy and Commerce
subcommittee, he has been a champion for the Great Lakes State. His
example of service with civility should be a model for all to follow.
While the recent negative and personal attacks on this man of conscience over
his position on health care reform have been shocking, I hope the bitterness
will not deter other good citizens from choosing to serve our country and our
communities. I send my best to Bart and Laurie and my deepest thanks for
serving Michigan with dignity and honor.”
Governor Meets with Fincantieri Marine
Group CEO in Italy, Offers Support for Potential Defense
Contract
The governor began her tenth overseas
investment mission in Rome today meeting with CEO Giuseppe Bono and other senior
leadership of Fincantieri Marine Group LLC, a global designer and manufacturer
of merchant and naval vessels.
Marinette Marine-Fincantieri, which
operates a shipbuilding facility in Marinette, Wis., on the Michigan-Wisconsin
border, is partnering with Lockheed Martin to win the U.S. Navy’s Littoral
Combat Ship (LCS) contract from the Department of Defense. The LCS,
established in 2003, is an innovative, high-speed, shallow-draft, reconfigurable
warship.
The LCS contract has the potential to create an
initial 2,630 Michigan jobs in both the upper and lower peninsulas. The
governor has offered full state support, including $1.4 million in workforce
training assistance.
While in Italy, the governor also will meet
with officials from Magneti Marelli, a supplier of engine, powertrain and
electrical components to Fiat, and with Sergio Marchionne, Fiat S.p.A and
Chrysler Group LLC CEO. Approximately 25 executives from Italian auto
suppliers will attend the Association of the Automotive Industry (ANFIA)
luncheon where the governor will highlight Michigan’s automotive research and
development strengths and diversification efforts.
Meetings are
scheduled in Germany with executives from various divisions of the Bosch group;
MITEC AG, a global auto propulsion technology company; Kostal, a manufacturer of
electromechanical and mechatronic products; and Daimler. Approximately 100
company officials, government leaders and members of the German press are
expected to attend a reception in Stuttgart co-hosted by the Chamber of Industry
and Commerce of the Stuttgart Region and the Byrnes Institute where the governor
will discuss Michigan’s focus on clean-energy manufacturing and
jobs.
Key messages:
• Aggressively pursuing opportunities in the
homeland security and defense sector is part of the Granholm administration’s
ongoing efforts to diversify Michigan’s economy and create new
jobs.
• This trip to Italy and Germany is the
governor’s tenth overseas investment mission since 2004. Her previous
missions to Austria, Belgium, Germany, Israel, Japan, Jordan and Sweden have
resulted in 47 companies announcing more than $1.6 billion in new investment in
Michigan and 12,995 (7,344 direct) jobs created and retained.
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