Cox doesn’t care about students
Daniel AbbeyAny shot that Attorney General Mike Cox had at wooing the student vote was shattered earlier this week.
Cox made a visit to mid-Michigan Tuesday and sat down with Morning Sun reporter Mark Ranzenberger to discuss his plans for going after dead-beat dads who don’t pay child support.
Oh Mikey, Mikey, Mikey. You don’t know of the opportunity you’ve just blown.
I am sure your plan was to sneak around the state and poke your head into every card-caring Republican niche across Michigan.
It’s great Cox is making his rounds, especially since his quest for reelection is rapidly approaching in 2006.
He also is trying to smooth over any negative press he may have gotten when Geoffrey Fieger forced Cox to reveal his extramarital affair.
There was an opportunity here for Cox to visit with the students and community of Central Michigan. Instead, he chose to go into a controlled setting where his public relations puppets could spin whatever negative news might crop up during the interview.
I have no idea what Cox’s political ambitions are, but whatever shot he may have had at securing the mid-Michigan vote is gone.
He blew his metaphorical load.
And that doesn’t seem to be the only thing he is blowing.
A group of students visited Lansing and met Cox as part of PSC 300: Michigan Politics and Elections. After a short 10-minute presentation, the attorney general gave the group a proverbial slap in the face when he flew the coop after answering one question.
Unfortunately, Cox will be lucky to get the Republican nomination for attorney general. If he skates by whatever Democrat runs against him, it will be his last hurrah as a legislator.
As corrupt and unethical as Cox is, it will be hard for him to get any higher than his current position. The only reason he has survived as long as he has is because politics is a profession that rewards such deceitful behavior.
I’m upset with Cox as a conservative because within a week’s time, he has successfully lost any support he had ever gained from me. At this point, the clown of a politician, whose name is Fieger, has my support over Cox.
And Fieger is a man who defended Jack Kevorkian, a man who helped people kill themselves.
Cox should do what Fieger suggested. He should resign from office and move forward with his life of lies and sexcapades.
He should stop embarrassing himself, his state and his party.
Dominic Adams can be reached for comment at news@cm-life.com.
