DeVos to run for Governor in Michigan

It's official. Ending months of speculation, Dick Devos, son of Amway co-founder Richard DeVos has announced that he'll run for governor of Michigan. He is also the husband of former state Republican chair, Betsy DeVos, and has been involved heavily in the schools of choice and school voucher programs over the last several years. He worked with the city of Detroit schools after the state took them over due to mismanagement, and was even commended by several Democrat leaders for doing an impressive job leading the Detroit Public Schools, including mayor Kwame Kilpatrick. Not sure that's an endorsement I'd want if I were him, but you can be sure the Dem's will run screaming from their previous statement, denying any positive feelings toward DeVos.
DeVos has two things working against him: 1) He's rich and 2) He's from the west side of Michigan. As Dick Postumus proved three years ago, it's tough to run on the east side when you're not from there. He did a respectable job, and were it not for voter fatigue with John Engler and the media's constant hammering of him, Postumus probably would have won. He lost by a much smaller margin than the polls were running, suggesting that many undecided voters went to him rather than Jenny From the Block. But Democrats are to be sure to hammer the fact that Mr. DeVos is a billionaire, and, to take a phrase out of the Howard Dean book of quotes "that he's never had an honest days work in his life".
While DeVos can counter that by saying that yes, indeed, he is rich, and that has nothing to do with how he'd run the state, you can be guaranteed that Dem's won't give up, as well as their willing accomplices in the media.
What DeVos has going for him is a state that wants a change. Only 24% of voters in a recent poll said that they would vote for Granholm, and her job approval rating is in the 30's. Interestingly, her personal approval is around 50%. I guess people like her, they just don't like her being governor.

Hopefully with this announcement from Mr. Devos, they won't have to be concerned about that for much longer.