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After eight years on the job, Rick Snyder will soon end his time as Michigan's governor. On New Year's Day, Democrat¹ Gretchen Whitmer will be sworn in to take over from the Republican who billed himself as One Tough Nerd.

Michigan Radio's Morning Edition host Doug Tribou talks to Crain's Detroit Business senior reporter Chad Livengood, and Michigan Radio's resident political news junkie Zoe Clark about Snyder's legacy² as he prepares to leave office.

First year in office

Chad Livengood: Rick Snyder made this sort of pitch of One Tough Nerd. Time for an accountant to clean up Lansing. Get budgets passed on time. Reform the tax code. Try to get different businesses to come to the state, and really just change the political dynamics³ of Lansing that had always been defined by career politicians.

Zoe Clark: The Detroit of Chamber⁴ of Commerce on Mackinac Island. This is where all the business leaders come together. I remember Gov. Rick Snyder walking in and you would've thought this guy was a rock star. Just this sense at least from business leaders that things were going to be different. That here was this governor, one of their own.

Detroit bankruptcy⁵ and comeback

Livengood: Rick Snyder really pushed people to limits. Yes, he got an emergency manager law people hated, and then it got repealed⁶, and then they gave him a new one and then they used it to install this dictator-like person to take over the city of Detroit, but it was all meant to bring corporate⁷ financial order to the city of Detroit.

Flint water crisis

Livengood: The non-politician of Rick Snyder kind of did him in here. A politician who has a lot of empathy, who just sort of sees things and says, "What's going on? Why is there brown water in Flint? What are we doing about it? I want it taken care of now." That person didn't kick in when this problem really bubbled up.

Clark: One of the things that people say about the president is that they're not just the commander in chief, they're the sympathizer in chief, and he just never played that role during the Flint water crisis.

1 democrat   

n.民主主义者，民主人士；民主党党员

参考例句：

• The Democrat and the Public criticized each other.民主党人和共和党人互相攻击。
• About two years later,he was defeated by Democrat Jimmy Carter.大约两年后，他被民主党人杰米卡特击败。

2 legacy   

n.遗产，遗赠；先人(或过去)留下的东西

参考例句：

• They are the most precious cultural legacy our forefathers left.它们是我们祖先留下来的最宝贵的文化遗产。
• He thinks the legacy is a gift from the Gods.他认为这笔遗产是天赐之物。

3 dynamics   

n.力学，动力学，动力，原动力；动态

参考例句：

• In order to succeed,you must master complicated knowledge of dynamics.要取得胜利，你必须掌握很复杂的动力学知识。
• Dynamics is a discipline that cannot be mastered without extensive practice.动力学是一门不做大量习题就不能掌握的学科。

4 chamber   

n.房间，寝室；会议厅；议院；会所

参考例句：

• For many,the dentist's surgery remains a torture chamber.对许多人来说，牙医的治疗室一直是间受刑室。
• The chamber was ablaze with light.会议厅里灯火辉煌。

5 bankruptcy   

n.破产；无偿付能力

参考例句：

• You will have to pull in if you want to escape bankruptcy.如果你想避免破产，就必须节省开支。
• His firm is just on thin ice of bankruptcy.他的商号正面临破产的危险。

6 repealed   

撤销，废除( repeal的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• The Labour Party repealed the Act. 工党废除了那项法令。
• The legislature repealed the unpopular Rent Act. 立法机关废除了不得人心的租借法案。

7 corporate   

adj.共同的，全体的；公司的，企业的

参考例句：

• This is our corporate responsibility.这是我们共同的责任。
• His corporate's life will be as short as a rabbit's tail.他的公司的寿命是兔子尾巴长不了。