What is Government Relations?
One of the most effective ways of letting elected officials know an organization’s views on issues is through personal meetings. In political terms, this is called lobbying. The MSMS Government Relations team provides elected officials with the information they need to make the best decisions for their constituencies.
We also try to connect legislators directly with their constituents. Elected officials pay attention to mass numbers. When a group of people.
Michigan’s roads, bridges, dams, harbors, water and stormwater systems are all in need of long-term repairs. That costs lots of money. What would cost more? Not making plans to start paying that money now. (Bridge/Crain’s photo by Michael Lee II)
LANSING In the summer of 2003, a massive power outage brought a swath of the eastern United States and Canada ‒ including much of Michigan’s Lower Peninsula ‒ to a standstill.
The blackout, which started when a single electrical wire touched a tree in Ohio, left roughly 50 million people in the dark for days, and exposed the vulnerability of the electric grid.
and i m trying to follow where the young man is. i see gary is at this point climbing out now. and the other young man, kevin, who had jumped in, he s climbing out closer to where i was. he s right there! him and i got out close to the same time. i made it out of the water. at that point, the waves subsided and the kid popped up, unconscious, facedown. panic sets in among the crowd. they are worried that the young man is going to drown right in front of them. right there! anxiously watching rob mcnolte has a decision to make. on the video footage you can tell i m looking left and looking right watching the swell of the water and trying to look and see if i m going to go in. i was debating it. i could find of feel he would dive in. but also in back of my mine, his two children are with him seeing all this. and to take that risk knowing that your own children are there, to risk your life for a
man out of the water but he just got smashed by a wave and sucked into the water himself. at this point, i real i m in serious trouble. i m fighting for my life. the current sucks gary into the mouth of the cave and hurls him perilously close to the jagged rocks. once gary was swept in there and the swells were coming in he was trying to dive under them and they were popping up. one minute they are popping up over here. the next minute they are popping up over there. it was just relentless. he is right there, behind you, he s going in the cave. we were kind of trying to direct gary to where the kid is. but at the same time, trying to tell gary to get out. another bystander, kevin cotter, sees the teen and gary struggle against the powerful surf and prepares to jump in. then kev, he jumps off from the other side and tries to get the kid in and needily he is fighting for his life. he s right there. all the while, hillary kept pointing out where the young man was. he s
stranger that you don t know speaks volumes. i just thought that he has one chance left. i think that was the last thought i had, that this is his last chance. and next thing i know my feet left the rock. rob jumps in and swims as fast as he can toward the motionless teen. he reaches him quickly. it was a miracle literally a miracle that he surfaced right where he did. and i got my way over to the rocks and kevin s sister, who was over there, she reached her hand out. and i m screaming to her, i m like help me pull him up. help me pull him up. pull his hand! the teen is dragged out of the swirling surf but he is not out of harm s way. i could see the waves keep crashing in on them. and all i could shout at that moment was higher, higher, take him higher. i could remember people yelling give him mouth to mouth, give him chest compressions, cpr.