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LANSING -- With its bare walls, some upholstered chairs and a conference table, Gov. Rick Snyder’s office is kind of like a hotel lobby without the charm.

He mentions something about needing to put some Michigan-themed art on display, but it is clear that six months after he moved in, it’s still not a top priority.

His priorities are elsewhere and they are being knocked off , one by one, through a political management style Snyder calls “relentless positive action.” While reaction is mixed as to whether it’s all positive, the dominant view of his record so far is one of relentless action:

• The tax code’s been overhauled; the budget balanced four months ahead of past practice.

• The first pieces of the education agenda he announced in April, tenure reform, could be on his desk this month. So too could a measure requiring all public employees in Michigan to pay more for their health-care benefits.

• A regulatory review aims to reconsider decades worth of rules and regulations businesses may oppose, but in some cases also favor because they bring financial benefit.

Snyder came up with the concept of “dog years” to describe the pace, seeking to cram four years of work into six months, or 182 days, which ended Friday.

It helped that he was navigating his way through a large number of new lawmakers. He also paid less deference to ideological script.

“I’ve been very impressed in that they’ve stuck with what they wanted to do and got 90 percent of what they wanted to get done, done,” said Bob Emerson, a Democrat who served a quarter-century in the Legislature and was Gov. Jennifer Granholm’s budget director for four.

“For a guy who came in with no experience and supposedly an amateur in dealing with the Legislature, he’s done an incredibly good job of working with people. It’s even hard to pick a fight with him because the perception is that he doesn’t get defensive and sticks with what he wants to do.”

Critics say it was easy for Snyder, given big majorities of fellow Republicans in the Legislature. But those Republicans had to cast some tough votes. Extending the income tax to some pension income was one. Cutting K-12 school funding was another.

In an interview this past week, Snyder said the aim of it all – and the second-half agenda he’ll outline in the fall -- is to rebuild an employment base that cratered from Hancock to Detroit.

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