no kidding. i go to a university at which many buildings (and in fact one entire campus of four) is named after him. he's on the board of trustees, and is the primary individual working against allowing domestic partnership benefits at our school. before that whole proposal 2 bull in november, we were the only 4 year university in michigan that didn't have them, and all because of this one man. i believe his exact quote to the president of the university was, "you can give your faculty domestic partnership benefits, or i can give you 25 million dollars. you can't have both."
i would never vote for him, but i will admit that i like one specific thing about him a little bit. he, along with a few other rich grand rapids folks, have given an absolutely tremendous amount of money to this city, and it's flourishing more than it really should be, all other things considering. i hail originally from detroit, which has no private investors really, and it's falling apart at an unbelievable rate. i don't like it necessarily, because i know there are tons of things we could do publicly to improve cities, but with the feds blocking funds and/or turning them over to the military, there's not a lot of public money to go around. i hate this, but i appreciate the fact that the devos family is turning their money over to a city that is now doing amazingly well.
whew. i'm sorry for that long-ass reply. i guess i just have a lot to say about him, considering he's quite well known in this area.
LOL never apologize for being long winded to me. The Devos family may give a lot of money to their home town, but one has to look at what they did to get and especially the lies and deceit that went into getting that money in the first place. Amway is a company built not so much on selling things as it's built on selling a dream. A dream that for many of the folks who get roped into it falls far short when made reality. And then of course there's as you pointed out an attitude of if you don't do it my way I'm taking my toys/money and going home.
i would never vote for him, but i will admit that i like one specific thing about him a little bit. he, along with a few other rich grand rapids folks, have given an absolutely tremendous amount of money to this city, and it's flourishing more than it really should be, all other things considering. i hail originally from detroit, which has no private investors really, and it's falling apart at an unbelievable rate. i don't like it necessarily, because i know there are tons of things we could do publicly to improve cities, but with the feds blocking funds and/or turning them over to the military, there's not a lot of public money to go around. i hate this, but i appreciate the fact that the devos family is turning their money over to a city that is now doing amazingly well.
whew. i'm sorry for that long-ass reply. i guess i just have a lot to say about him, considering he's quite well known in this area.
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And then of course there's as you pointed out an attitude of if you don't do it my way I'm taking my toys/money and going home.
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