Former Michigan GOP gubernatorial nominee Tudor Dixon joins Fox Across America With guest host Todd Piro to share her thoughts on retiring actor Michael Douglas saying that people now enter politics in the U.S. in order to make money.
“I think he thinks that this is a one-sided issue. Let’s talk about Andrew Cuomo, who wrote a book about the pandemic and then resigns and gets this big advance and spends all this money, but he shouldn’t have actually gotten the money. It turns out what he did in the pandemic was not what he said he was doing. But come to find out that during the pandemic, he has many staff members writing this book, so he’s distracted from public service. To me, that is a critical issue. Gretchen Whitmer, the same thing. She writes a book because I believe she sees the writing on the wall that Joe Biden is not gonna be the nominee. So quick, she gets this like, I mean, it was a very slim book that came out, maybe she announced in February, it comes out in July right before the election. But then she leaves the state of Michigan for months for a nationwide book tour. And I think that’s wrong. I do not think politicians should be allowed to personally profit and leave the state by doing it. I mean the fact that she can write a memoir and then travel around the country while the state, it would be one thing if the state of Michigan were in great shape, we’re 40th in infrastructure, 40th an education, our manufacturing is dying, and the governor’s AWOL because she’s making megabucks off of a book that she’s getting a huge advance on. And I will say locally, we have the same issue in Michigan. So when I say I agree with him, I’ll say even a Republican who is running for office in the state of Michigan had a leadership position in state government, left and became a lobbyist, which means you are using your connections in government to make money for companies who are paying you to do it. And then, now he is still a lobbyists, goes back and decides he’s going to run for an even higher office. So you go from office to making money lobbying off of your relationships to back to office and having the people that you lobbied for make money off of government. I think that your priorities are to make money and you shouldn’t be running for office.”
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