As Mary Mulhern fights an aggressive challenge to her bid for re-election to the Tampa City Council District 2 seat, things are looking pretty good for her brother, Dan, and his wife and Mary Mulhern's sister-in-law, the now former Governor of Michigan, Jennifer Granholm.
Granholm recently was term-limited out of office after governing one of the most economically devastated states in the nation.
Politico reports that the immediate future looks pretty bright for the Mulhern-Granholm team, however. As a team, they will co-author a book about “the experience of governing what has been the toughest state in the country,” she tells the political website. It will be published in the fall.
In addition:
Granholm and Mulhern also have a joint two-year academic appointment at the University of California-Berkeley, Granholm’s undergraduate alma mater. Together, they will teach a course this coming spring semester at the university’s Goldman School of Public Policy. In the fall, they will teach separate courses in the public policy, law and business schools.
The common theme of the courses and book will be the lessons Michigan holds for the rest of the country as “the canary in the coal mine — the state hardest hit by the loss of traditional manufacturing jobs,” she said. “We want to be able to have the nation draw lessons, good and bad, about what can happen if the United States doesn’t take a more active role” in job creation.
In addition, Granholm and Mulhern have signed on with the Keppler Speakers Bureau to be represented for speaking engagements; they are fielding offers to serve on the boards of companies and nonprofits; and Granholm will be a paid contributor to NBC’s “Meet the Press."
This article appears in Jan 20-26, 2011.