MI Agriculture Commissioner Joins G.O.P., Bolts 'Rat Party

The Times Piscayne ^ | June 6, 2005

[Clintonfatigued]

Agriculture Commissioner Lester Spell has switched to the Republican Party almost 10 years in office as a Democrat, saying his work within his department is more in line with the principals of the GOP.

[Clintonfatigued]

The 'Rats lose another one! : )

[EagleUSA]

Link does not work... :(

[JohnnyZ]

Didn't know Michigan elected an Ag commish ;)

Spell is switching now likely because he's under fire for his role in a busted economic development project http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=14647579&BRD=1838&PAG=461&dept_id=126930&rfi=6

http://www.sunherald.com/mld/thesunherald/11811238.htm

Spell's stated reason: "I think over the years I have made a lot of changes in my department...increased efficiency and downsizing government," Spell said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press. "This is very much in line with the principals of the Republican Party."

[AuH2ORepublican]

""This is very much in line with the principals of the Republican Party.""

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So because the speaker is a Mississippian, the telephone interviewer assumed that he would have misspelled it "principals" instead of "principles"?

[Dog Gone]

I think he was speaking of high school principals. Not sure, though.