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National Republican Congressional Committee Targets Democrat Pam Byrnes With Fake News Site
DEMOCRAT PAM BYRNES is challenging Republican incumbent Rep. Tim Walberg in the 7th Congressional District, which covers much of the area between Lansing and the southern border of Michigan. The district runs from Coldwater on its western…
Latest EPIC/MRA Poll Shows Peters Ahead, Land Gaining Ground
A NEW POLL shows the Michigan Senate race is tightening, with Republican Terri Lynn Land gaining ground, but Democratic Rep. Gary Peters still holds a solid lead.
The poll, conducted by EPIC/MRA for WXYZ-TV 7 and the Detroit Free Press,…
Blaming Debbie Dingell—Rep. John D. Dingell Jr.’s Hire of Scandal-Tainted Former Local Pol Angers Dems
by P.D. Lesko
On June 11, Rep. John D. Dingell, Jr.’s office announced the hire of Leigh Greden as Mr. Dingell’s chief of staff. The former Ann Arbor News revealed in 2009 that Greden and others on Council had been vote-rigging via email…
As Of December 21 Rep. Tim Walberg Out-Fundraising Challenger Former State Rep. Pam Byrnes Almost 2 To 1
FEDERAL ELECTION COMMITTEE records show that as of the December 21, 2013 campaign finance disclosure deadline U.S. 7th District incumbent Tim Walberg had raised $713,195 and former Michigan Representative Pam Byrnes, a Democrat, had raised…
Koch Brothers PAC Pumping Money Into Michigan’s U.S. Senate Race
Democrat Gary Peters is being targeted by the Koch PAC for his support of Obamacare.
DEMOCRATS ARE FACING their toughest Michigan Senate fight in two decades.
A sour national political climate, a little-known candidate and big…
Perchance To Dream: MLK’s Dream Took on Poverty and War Along with Racism
by Drew Dellinger
WHEN MARTIN Luther King Jr. gave his “I Have a Dream” speech, he did something extraordinary for a speaker mounting a challenge to the existing order: he positioned those in his movement not as outsiders and dissidents,…
Op-Ed: Expanding Social Security Is Crucial to Addressing Inequality in America
by Steve Rosenfeld
IN COMING DECADES, America will face an economic crisis of epic proportions as tens of millions of citizens lean toward poverty as they reach their senior years. What is done about it will define what kind of country…
In The Michigan 7th Dem Pam Byrnes Has Her Work Cut Out To Unseat Rep. Walberg
FORMER REPRESENTATIVE Pam Byrnes has taken aim at the U.S. Congressional seat held by Republican Tim Walberg. Byrnes, back from two years in China working as the Executive Director at the University of Michigan Shanghai Jiao Tong University…
Halbig v. Sebelius Could Be the Undoing of Obamacare
AT THE END of October, a federal judge denied a request from the Justice Department to dismiss a lawsuit aiming to block health care subsidies in states not running their own healthcare exchange sites. Put another way, if the plaintiffs in…
Forget Voter Registration Drives. Get Michigan’s Registered Voters Interested in Elections.
by Rob Smith
Michigan Rising (formerly the Committee to Recall Rick Snyder) tried twice to collect enough signatures to put the question of whether to recall Governor Rick Snyder on the ballot. Twice the group failed. Such signature drives…