Republican state Rep. Jeff Farrington has only been in office for a few weeks and already he has attracted the wrath of Michigan Democratic Party Chair Mark Brewer. Brewer said recently that Farrington, of Utica, joked about protecting jobs in Michigan.
Farrington was quoted in the Lansing-based MIRS newsletter as mocking the jobs which will be lost by repealing the item-pricing law, said Brewer, who sharpened his political skills for many years in Macomb County politics. The freshman lawmaker essentially compared stock boys in grocery stores to slave labor in China. “Should we build roads with shovels and picks like they do in China just to provide jobs?” he told MIRS.
“Creating jobs for Michigan workers is no laughing matter,” Brewer shot back in a statement. “We need to be working together to create jobs in Michigan and put people back to work. Rep. Farrington should not be joking about job creation or voters may send him to the unemployment line in 2012.”
