For several months, Terri Lynn Land has been misleading
voters about her grandparent’s family business, a trailer park that Land
bulldozed to make room for a development project.

A  biographical
video located at the top of Land’s Senate campaign website refers to the west
Michigan trailer park where she worked as a teenager and college student. In a  sound bite, Land is featured on camera and she says: “They (the
grandparents) are very proud of their family business, which still continues to
this day.”

In fact, property records show that the trailer park was bought
by Land and her husband 19 years ago. In 2004, the 170 families living there
were forced to move and the Grandville property was bulldozed. But it was never developed or sold and it still remains vacant.

The Land statement that her grandparents business “continues
to this day” is contained within a 3-minute video that apparently was the
featured attraction at the top of her website home page since the site was
redesigned last December.

Portions of the full-length video were recently used by Land’s
Senate campaign to create a shorter bio ad that’s been shown in TV markets
throughout Michigan.

That ad was the inspiration for a counter-commercial launched
by her Democratic opponent, Rep. Gary Peters, on Monday that tells the story
about the tenants getting ousted in 2004-05.

Meanwhile, the Land website still has two fairy tale
versions of the candidates association with the former trailer park:

As a little girl, I
loved working alongside Grandma Jenny at our family motel.  Grandma was
not the typical woman of her time; she helped run the family business, which
was a rarity. Her and grandpa were a true team, with grandpa running the
day-to-day operations of the motel, and grandma managing the books.  I
helped her clean the rooms and was thrilled just to be a member of the family
team.

After
college, I became the motel manager, and it was Grandma Jenny who taught me
that with hard work, women could not only succeed, but also excel in the
workplace.  Ever since I was a young girl — standing on the stool at the
kitchen sink doing dishes — I’ve kept Grandma Jenny’s advice with me.

Here’s the second version:

Growing
up in Michigan, I watched my father, grandmother and grandfathers work
tirelessly to grow their small business, learning the value of hard work at an
early age. After I graduated form (sic) Hope College in Holland, MI, I
continued to work for our family business and then began my tenure in public
service. I took the lessons learned at the family business — the importance of
hard work, balanced budgets, and customer service — and set my focus on
improving government services to make government work for the people.