Mark Maynard | election results

Election Night 2012… results, interpretation, and celebration

By Mark | November 6, 2012

OK, I’ve got my beer and I’m in front of a television… let’s do this, America. 8:13 I just talked with Growing Hope’s Amanda Edmonds. She heard from a friend of hers this morning that there was a handwritten sign telling voters at the Huron County Township Hall that state-issued voter ID was mandatory. Amanda [...]

Posted in Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Alan Grayson, Amanda Edmonds, Bridget M. McCormack, Carol Kuhnke, collective bargaining, Congress, Connie Marie Kelley, Debbie Stabenow, Donald Trump, Election Day, electronic voting, Elizabeth Warren, Florida, Gretchen Driskell, Indiana, Jeff Meyers, Jim Fink, Kerry Bentivolio, legitimate rape, Mark Ouimet, Massachusetts, Michele Bachmann, Obama, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Pete Hoekstra, Presidential politics, rape, Richard Mourdock, Romney, Senate, Shelia Johnson, solar powered abortion equipment, Steve Pierce, Syed Taj, Tammy Baldwin, tea party, Thayrone X, Todd Akin, Van Jones, Victoria Jackson, Virginia, voter suppression, WAAM, Wisconsin | 126 Comments

Mike Eller and Steve Pierce lose their Ypsi City Council primary races

By Mark | August 7, 2012

Proving the old adage – “yard signs don’t vote” – to be true, Mike Eller and Steve Pierce, in spite of the fact that their campaign signs outnumbered those of their Democratic opponents by an order of magnitude (thanks to the support of several local landlords), came up short today in their joint quest for [...]

Posted in Ann Arbor, Civil Liberties, Politics, Ypsilanti | Also tagged America First Party of Michigan, Chuck Warpehoski, democratic primary, homophobia, Karen Maurer, Lois Richardson, Mike Eller, Pete Murdock, primary elections, racism, separation of church and state, sexism, Steve Pierce, Stop City Income Tax, Ted Windish, Ypsilanti City Council, Ypsilanti Ward 1, Ypsilanti Ward 3 | 74 Comments

Obstruction 2.0

By Mark | November 4, 2010

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell came out yesterday, and said that his top priority, now that his party has retaken Congress, is the defeat of Barack Obama in 2012. It’s amazing to me that with unemployment over 10% and our men and women still dying in Afghanistan that the defeat of our elected President, Barack [...]

Posted in Michigan, Politics | Also tagged birther, campaign finance reform, campaign funding, government shutdown, gridlock, Jackson Citizen Patriot, mandates, Mark Shauer, Michigan's 7th Congressional District, Mitch McConnell, Obama, obstruction, Republican obstructionism, tea party, the party of no, Tim Walberg, Washtenaw County | 14 Comments

Republican Blowout, But No Conservative Mandate

By Mark | November 3, 2010

The best take on yesterday’s election that I’ve found thus far came from the folks at Think Progress. Here’s what they had to say: Riding a wave of discontent, Republicans overtook the House of Representatives by great numbers, but foundered in the U.S. Senate, where the media spotlight on Tea Party candidates like Sharron Angle [...]

Posted in Environment, Politics | Also tagged angry Republicans and their ideas, Bush, Bush tax cuts, Carly Fiorina, Center for American Progress, Christine O'Donnell, deregulation, Eric Cantor, FreedomWorks, fucking Democrats, global climate change, inept Democrats, Jeb Bush, John Boehner, John Podesta, Ken Buck, mandates, Matt Kibbe, Meg Whitman, Michael Steele, middle class, Mitch McConnell, Mitt Romney, Rand Paul, recession, Republican platform, Sarah Palin, Sharron Angle, tax the rich, tea party, the hijacking of the Republican party, the plight of the overtaxed rich, Tom Donohue, Wall Street | 9 Comments

Celebrate yesterday’s trouncing by getting involved in Campaign Finance Reform

By Mark | November 3, 2010

I was in the midst of trying to cobble together a hopeful and constructive post of some kind, and failing miserably, when I received the following note from Lawrence Lessig, the co-founder of Fix Congress First. As it successfully accomplished what I could not, I thought that I’d steal it and pass it along. Just [...]

Posted in Other, Politics, Rants | Also tagged campaign finance reform, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, First Amendment, Fix Congress First, get the money out of Washington, How to get our Democracy Back, John Roberts, Lawrence Lessig, lobbying, McCain-Feingold, money in politics, Obama, Ron Johnson, Russ Feingold, The Tyranny of Tiny Minds | 12 Comments

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Election Night 2012… results, interpretation, and celebration

Mike Eller and Steve Pierce lose their Ypsi City Council primary races

Obstruction 2.0

Republican Blowout, But No Conservative Mandate

Celebrate yesterday’s trouncing by getting involved in Campaign Finance Reform

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